Cyber Security Education for Children Through Gamification: Challenges and Research Perspectives

Quayyum, Farzana

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-52287-2_26

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“…There is widespread acknowledgement that it is important to educate children about cybersecurity [31][32][33][34][35][36][37]. Throughout the UK, cybersecurity is included in the curriculum for children throughout their time at school.…”

Section: Children's Cybersecurity Educationmentioning

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Who Is Best Placed to Support Cyber Responsibilized UK Parents?

Prior

Renaud

2023

Children

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The UK government responsibilizes its citizens when it comes to their cyber security, as do other countries. Governments provide excellent advice online, but do not provide any other direct support. Responsibilization is viable when: (1) risk management activities require only ubiquitous skills, (2) a failure to manage the risk does not affect others in the person’s community. Cybersecurity fails on both counts. Consider that parents and carers are effectively being responsibilized to educate their children about cybersecurity, given that young children cannot be expected to consult and act upon government advice. Previous research suggests that UK parents embrace this responsibility but need help in keeping up to date with cybersecurity ‘best practice’. In this paper, we consider a number of possible sources of parental advice, and conclude that support workers would be best placed to support parents in this domain. We then carried out a study to gauge the acceptability of this source of help. We find that parents would be willing to accept advice from this source, and suggest that cybersecurity academics be recruited to train support workers to ensure that they have current ‘best practice’ cybersecurity knowledge to impart to parents.

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Section: Children's Cybersecurity Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Who Is Best Placed to Support Cyber Responsibilized UK Parents?

Prior

Renaud

2023

Children

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“…Cybersecurity learning platforms have been generally applied in the school system [29][30][31]. In [29] the authors propose a web application to manage cybersecurity learning content, together with a mobile application to raise young learners' awareness on basic cybersecurity and privacy issues.…”

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“…In [29] the authors propose a web application to manage cybersecurity learning content, together with a mobile application to raise young learners' awareness on basic cybersecurity and privacy issues. Quayyum [30] provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges in cybersecurity education for children. The same author [31] investigates and presents new knowledge and tool development that may be effective on teaching the children about cybersecurity.…”

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“…Quayyum [30] provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges in cybersecurity education for children. The same author [31] investigates and presents new knowledge and tool development that may be effective on teaching the children about cybersecurity. Gamification strategies are used to engage and motivate students to learn cybersecurity subjects.…”

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An Integrated Cybernetic Awareness Strategy to Assess Cybersecurity Attitudes and Behaviours in School Context

2021

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Digital exposure to the Internet among the younger generations, notwithstanding their digital abilities, has increased and raised the alarm regarding the need to intensify the education on cybersecurity in schools. Understanding of the human factor and its influence on children, namely their attitudes and behaviors online, is pivotal to reinforce their awareness towards cyberattacks, and to promote their digital citizenship. This paper aims to present an integrated cybersecurity and cyberawareness strategy composed of three major steps: (1) Cybersecurity attitude and behavior assessment, (2) self-diagnosis, and (3) teaching/learning activities. The following contributions are made: Two questionnaires to assess risky attitudes and behaviors regarding cybersecurity; a self-diagnosis to measure students’ skills on cybersecurity; a lesson plan addressing cyberawareness to be applied on Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and citizenship education curricular units. Cybersecurity risky attitudes and behaviors were evaluated in a junior high school population of 164 students attending the sixth and ninth grades. The assessment focused on two main subjects: To identify the attitudes and behaviors that raise the risk on cybersecurity among the participating students; to characterize the acquired students’ cybersecurity and cyberawareness skills. Global and individual scores and the histograms for attitudes and behaviors are presented. The items in which we have observed significant differences between sixth and ninth grades are depicted and quantified by their corresponding p-values obtained through the Mann–Whitney non-parametric test. Regarding the results obtained on the assessment of attitudes and behaviors, although positive, we observed that the attitudes and behaviors in ninth grade students are globally inferior compared to those attained by sixth grade students. The deployed strategy for cyberawareness was applied in a school context; however, the same approach is suitable to be applied in other types of organizations, namely enterprises, healthcare institutions and public sector.

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“…Many games and applications, for example, are often part of research projects and are created routinely or quickly, however after their review, they often vanish and are seldom accessible to the general public [29]. Thus, [30] employing Design-Based Studies in investigating cyber security related learning experiences of children in informal settings (DBR). The goal of this research is to improve existing teaching techniques and methods as well as to discover new creative and innovative teaching methods, particularly in the CSA field.…”

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A Review of Cyber Security Awareness (CSA) Among Young Generation: Issue and Countermeasure

Sulaiman

Yacob

Aziz

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Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems

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Cybersecurity has emerged as an essential concept in everyday life, requiring the involvement of individuals. Although cybersecurity is empowered by government to all level of user, as a critical demanding situation confronted, however, the visibility and public focus stays limited especially to young user. The engagement of Internet is regularly taken into necessity for sharing information, learning, transactions and controlling the physical world, mainly during pandemic Covid-19. Hence, Cybersecurity Awareness (CSA) is a key defense in the protection of user and cyberspace. This review paper elaborates the CSA issue and methodology that had been done by other researcher, consequently the encounter effort taken to enhance the CSA among user, focus on young generation.

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Cyber Security Education for Children Through Gamification: Challenges and Research Perspectives

Cited by 7 publications

References 19 publications

Who Is Best Placed to Support Cyber Responsibilized UK Parents?

Who Is Best Placed to Support Cyber Responsibilized UK Parents?

An Integrated Cybernetic Awareness Strategy to Assess Cybersecurity Attitudes and Behaviours in School Context

A Review of Cyber Security Awareness (CSA) Among Young Generation: Issue and Countermeasure

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