Cyber security
Protecting yourself from online risks
Our lives are increasingly connected – we’re here to help protect what’s important to you, whether it’s on or offline.
Cyber Ready toolkit
07 May 2019
Supporting teachers to deliver cyber safety, this lesson plan resource uses the fresh new techniques of Design Thinking, engaging pupils in creative problem solving.
The Cyber Ready toolkit offers a solution-based approach to solving problems and covering core issues. It provides tools and methods needed to build cyber safety awareness amongst your students as well as how to solve problems collaboratively.
Cyber Ready learning
The lesson is intended as an extension to your current activities around cyber safety, health and resilience. There is one lesson plan that can be used to teach up to five different topics:
- Confidence to speak up when you’ve made a mistake online
- The negative impact of cyberbullying
- Sharing personal information online
- Feeling helpless after a cyberbullying incident
- The benefits of balancing time spent on and offline.
The primary outcome for pupils should be an awareness of cyber issues, with the secondary outcome being exposure to new problem-solving techniques (Design Thinking). It will enable students to come up with their own solution to solve cyber safety problems and gain creative confidence because they followed a process that allowed them to be the leaders and decision makers.
With the Inspectorate looking to see a structured approach and The Department for Education making the reforms statutory in September 2020, the digital ‘Cyber Ready’ toolkit provides a forward thinking solution to support you through the changes.
