Tēnā koutou katoa. Cyber Skills Aotearoa consists of unplugged and online resources that provide teachers and students with classroom-ready activities and challenges to develop students’ cyber security skills and dispositions.
Activities and challenges are aligned with Hangarau wāhanga ako | Technology learning areas and are free for Aotearoa New Zealand students in years 6-13. All learning resources are available in English and te reo Māori.
Activities and challenges are aligned with Hangarau wāhanga ako | Technology learning areas, and raise awareness of cyber security careers.
The full Cyber Skills Aotearoa programme consists of the following courses:
If you are new to Grok, welcome! If you're looking for help on how to get your students started on these activities, here are a couple of articles explaining how to register students and how to assign a course to your students.
This course is for ākonga in years 9-13 and covers purposeful sharing, password security, password reuse and multi-factor authentication (MFA) and phishing and scams.
Tātai Aho Rau Core Education collaborated with us on localising the content to be authentically relevant for Aotearoa New Zealand ākonga, which has been endorsed by the Ministry of Education Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga.
To find out more about the learning programme, curriculum coverage, classroom activities, check out our Kaiako Guide
Courses:
This online content of the course is expected to take approximately 4-6 hours for years 9-13 ākonga. However, it may take longer to complete the modules depending on how many of the suggested activities in the kaiako guide are integrated into your learning programme.
This course is for ākonga in years 6-8 and covers sharing responsibly and password security.
Tātai Aho Rau Core Education collaborated with us on localising the content to be authentically relevant for Aotearoa New Zealand ākonga, which has been endorsed by the Ministry of Education Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga.
To find out more about the learning programme, curriculum coverage, classroom activities, check out our Kaiako Guide
Courses:
This online content of the course is expected to take approximately 2-3 hours for years 6-8 ākonga. However, it may take longer to complete the modules depending on how many of the suggested activities in the kaiako guide are integrated into your learning programme.
With web apps all around us, this course allows ākonga to explore the features of web apps and how data may be either exposed, changed, or corrupted by hackers.
The course contains four websites that ākonga will explore to have a real life experience of exploring vulnerabilities in web apps.
To find out more about the learning programme, curriculum coverage, classroom activities, check out our Kaiako Guide
Courses:
This online content of the course is expected to take approximately 4-6 hours for years 9-13 ākonga. However, it may take longer to complete the modules depending on how many of the suggested activities in the kaiako guide are integrated into your learning programme.
This Challenge introduces basic cryptography concepts using data representation, which impacts the way we secure online communication. It teaches classic cryptographic ciphers like rotation, XOR and mixed-substitution, and explains the techniques used to break these forms of encryption.
To find out more about the learning programme, curriculum coverage, classroom activities, check out our Kaiako Guide
Courses:
This online content of the course is expected to take approximately 4-6 hours for years 9-13 ākonga. However, it may take longer to complete the modules depending on how many of the suggested activities in the kaiako guide are integrated into your learning programme.
Cyber Comp is free for Aotearoa New Zealand students in years 6-13. The next competition will be start on May 20, 2024 and run for 4 weeks. Cyber Comp introduces students to problems that require the application of cyber security knowledge and skills.
After taking part in Cyber Comp students will:
Poster - How good are your passwords? Download this poster to teach your students how to create good passwords.
Poster - Too good to be true? Download this poster to help your students identify a scam online.
Card deck - Cyber card game - download your free classroom set of these cyber cards to promote discussion on cyber security practice in your classroom.
Note: print out the cards double-sided
Information Flyer Download and share this flyer to spread the word about the Cyber Skills Aotearoa program.
