Lower secondary (ages 12-13)
Introduction
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Understanding what students are doing online and how they use online technologies is a valuable starting point for teaching cybersafety. The ACMA has three resources to assist teachers in finding out about students’ online activities.
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videos showing young people discussing their use of computers and other technologies and educators discussing the role of schools in developing cybersafety programs for this age level
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research into young people’s technology use
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a Student technology audit. Educators can use this to establish how their students use computers and other technologies.
To support cybersafety teaching, the ACMA has developed a Cybercitizen profile for 12–13 year olds. It outlines four ‘capabilities’:
The Teacher resources section provides a proposed Learning pathway and education resources to enable effective, age appropriate teaching of each of the four capabilities.