ISTELive ContentThis is being submitted as a poster session, so the following pertains to if it is accepted as a poster session. I will have the content printed out in a poster format.
I will open by relating the importance of cyber literacy from an early age. I will share about national initiatives including the creation of CISA, the National Cyber Directorate, and the White House Executive Order's pertaining to building the Cyber Workforce.
I will then share samples of student work as seen on the poster. This includes teaching about how to make good passwords, encryption/decryption, and multifactor authentication and at various grade bands (K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12) and in different subject contexts. For example, encryption and cryptography have a strong mathematics focus, ethics and policy are great to discuss in social studies (as well as historical encryption algorithms), and science research relies on good data and secure programming tools.
I will end with a project I encourage all school districts to do: asking students to engage with the IT department and learn more about their cybersecurity practices. Obscurity is not security!
https://www.cisa.gov/topics/cybersecurity-best-practices/cybersecurity-education-career-development
https://www.cisa.gov/K12Cybersecurity
https://rems.ed.gov/cybersafety
https://www.k12dive.com/news/iste-2020-state-of-k-12-cybersecurity-from-traditional-it-to-classroom-le/591690/
https://www.whitehouse.gov/oncd/
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