Cybersecurity into everyday school life
Make cybersecurity part of your work and your students’ daily lives
Everyday cybersecurity is about knowing how to use devices and services safely, and it’s an important skill for everyone. For teachers, it’s especially helpful: when the key basics are in place, it’s easier to act safely yourself and guide students to do the same. Just as young people learn to behave safely in traffic, it’s beneficial for them to learn to behave safely online.
Make everyday school life more cybersecure
With the training materials, you’ll learn the basics of cybersecurity yourself and know how to work safely. That also makes it easier to teach the topic to students.
Save time with ready-made lessons
You can focus on teaching by using ready-made lesson materials and exercises. You don’t have to search for materials yourself or start creating them.
Address students’ concerns early
When you recognize the most common online risks and scams, you’ll know how to bring them up and help students stay safe online.
Teachers play an important role in cybersecurity
Every teacher influences the cybersecurity of the school and its students. This is because you have access to work devices and school systems that handle confidential information. Educational institutions process a lot of student-related data, such as personal information and academic records. Protecting this data is a legal requirement. It’s also the right thing to do, because information falling into the wrong hands can cause long-lasting and unpleasant consequences for students. Therefore, every teacher is expected to follow the guidelines, take care of devices, and keep the information they handle secure. Our training materials will help you with this.
When you teach cybersecurity, you teach lifelong skills
At school, students learn skills that help them succeed in life: they practice moving safely in traffic, interacting with others—and increasingly, being online. Just as they should learn the rules of the road, they should also learn how to act safely on the internet. It’s best to introduce cybersecurity into young people’s daily lives early, so it becomes a natural and familiar part of life. Here, dear teacher, you have an important role.
Strengthen your and your students’ cybersecurity skills
With the free training materials produced by Cyber Citizen, every teacher can learn the basics of cybersecurity and use ready-made lesson materials and exercises with their students. The materials are intended for comprehensive school teachers. You can use them as they are or pick and choose parts that suit your teaching.
The training materials include
- materials for teachers to learn the basics of cybersecurity
- tips and resources to help you bring cybersecurity into your lesson.
How can the materials be used?
As a teacher, you may freely use the Cyber Citizen materials in your lessons. The materials are licensed under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. This license requires that reusers give credit to the creator. It allows reusers to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form and for noncommercial purposes only. If you would like to discuss other ways to use the material, please contact the project team!