ICTC Knowledge Exchange Hub
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The Knowledge Exchange Hub: Empowering Digital Media Literacy Across Canada
This pioneering initiative, launched by the Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) in collaboration with KnowledgeFlow Cybersafety Foundation, aims to spread K-12 digital media literacy education across Canada. Designed to showcase and disseminate a wealth of digital media literacy resources, this initiative offers free resources for educators and learners nationwide.
We invite any interested organization with free resources for K-12 education to share their innovative projects and resources with a broader audience by completing our partner registration form. This unique opportunity not only enhances the visibility of their contributions but also integrates them into a national effort to elevate digital literacy standards.
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ICTC's Cybersecurity Fundamentals e-Learning course was designed to empower students to mitigate their risks online. Through this course, students gain knowledge to recognize and effectively reduce online threats. Our program places a strong emphasis on developing digital literacy skills while providing a deeper understanding of cybersecurity concepts. Additionally, students have the opportunity to explore rewarding careers that require this knowledge and skill set.
- Geared toward Middle and High School students (Grades 4 and up)
- Asynchronous
- The course duration: average of 4-6 hours to complete
Module 1: Fundamentals of Online Security
Unit 1: The internet
Unit 2: Your identity
Unit 3: Digital footprints
Unit 4: Our digital identity
Unit 5: Protecting yourself with passwords
Unit 6: The omnichannel and your data
Unit 7: Your data is valuable
Unit 8: Actively protecting your data
Module 2: Becoming a Cybersecurity Professional
Unit 9: What is a security pro?
Unit 10: What is a hacker?
Unit 11: Thinking in layers
Unit 12: Becoming a cybersecurity professional
Unit 13: What skills do you need?
Unit 14: Give cybersecurity a try!
Students will learn about the command line and get hands-on practice to get comfortable with using it.
- Geared toward Middle and High School students (Grades 6 up)
- Course duration: 0.5-2 hours
Students will learn file management techniques to organize and manage files such as copying, moving, deleting files and searching for files.
- Geared toward Middle and High School students (Grades 6 up)
- Course duration: 0.5-2 hours
Students will learn file management techniques to organize and manage files such as copying, moving, deleting files and creating shortcuts.
- Geared toward Middle and High School students (Grades 6 up)
- Course duration: 0.5-2 hours
Students learn the role of an Operating Systems (OS) in a computer and get hands-on experience with two families of OS: Windows and Linux.
- Geared toward Middle and High School students (Grades 6 up)
- Course duration: 0.5-2 hours
Networks are created with many devices and computers linking to one another. Fundamental concepts are introduced along with how to view, create, and analyze network data with the tool Wireshark.
- Geared toward Middle and High School students (Grades 6 up)
- Course duration: 0.5-2 hours
- Available in French
Steganography hides secret data in files or images. Therefore, steganalysis, that is, detecting steganography, is an important skill for cyber analysts. Both are examined.
- Geared toward Middle and High School students (Grades 6 up)
- Course duration: 0.5-2 hours
- Available in French
After this course, the student should be able to search for and identify suspicious files, including files within hidden folders.
- Geared toward middle and high school students (Grades 6 up)
- Course is .5-2 hours
- Available in French
In this course, students will learn how to better protect a Windows computer system against basic threats and vulnerabilities by identifying security risks and applying standard hardening techniques.
- Geared toward Middle and High School students (Grades 6 up)
- Course duration: 0.5-2 hours
- Available in French
Students will learn to create hashes and identify common security scenarios where they are used. They will also use the hashcat tool to find weak hashes.
- Geared toward Middle and High School students (Grades 6 up)
- Course duration: 0.5-2 hours
- Available in French
This course revisits the concepts and skills learned in previous modules by presenting students with active defence tasks that tie everything together.
- Geared toward Middle and High School students (Grades 6 up)
- Course duration: 0.5-2 hours
- Available in French
Firewalls are basic network security tools used to filter incoming and outgoing packets in accordance with pre-set rules. Delve into the creation of rules and how to determine the process of determining firewall rule parameters, equipping learners with essential knowledge in network security management.
- Geared toward Middle and High School students (Grades 6 up)
- Course duration: 0.5-2 hours
- Available in French
Encoding replaces characters and symbols with standardized values. Identification of basic encoding patterns, as well as the encoding and decoding of text and files, are important to cyber analysts.
- Geared toward Middle and High School students (Grades 6 up)
- Course duration: 0.5-2 hours
- Available in French
Educators play a vital role in teaching students on how to stay cyber safe. This Introduction to Cyber Security for Educators self-paced online course was designed with a focus on enhancing educators' awareness of cyber security. This foundational course helps educators gain the necessary knowledge, skills, and confidence to protect themselves and their students in cyberspace. This course provides a first line of defense on cyber security by reviewing relevant cyber security terminology, threats, and protection measures relating to the education context . This course also examines the characteristics of a safe online learning environment, the career streams that exist in the field of cyber security, and the many resources that exist to help educators teach cyber security to their students.