This document discusses the importance of digital security in the classroom. It outlines how students and schools can be vulnerable online through theft, hacking, bullying and other issues if basic security practices are not followed. The document recommends that schools monitor and update their computer systems, networks and security software. It also suggests that students learn good password habits, back up their data and be aware of digital etiquette to help create a secure digital learning environment.

1. Digital Security
Electronic Precautions to Guarantee Safety
by Maria Mustelier

2. Digital Security
As members of the Online Age, we are
vulnerable to attacks by dishonest people
who try to gain information, money, and
access to our private lives, through:
● theft
● defacing (via “hacktivism”)
● disruption

3. Digital Security in the Classroom
Forget the digital classroom for a minute. In
every class there are rules meant to
provide a safe learning environment:
● Be Responsible For Your Own Actions and Words
● Be respectful to the Teacher and classmates
● Follow instructions
● Tell an adult if you feel unsafe

4. In fact--a classroom without even those
basic rules is asking for trouble--usually
in the form of:
● theft
● defacing school and other’s property
● disruptive behavior

5. The same is true...
...for the Digital Classroom.
Digital Security is part of
Digital Citizenship

6. Without it?
● cheating
● bullying
● viruses and loss of equipment,
productivity, and learning
● threats to personal safety/information

7. Creating a Digitally Secure Classroom
The School should monitor and update:
● all computers
● servers
● networks
● anti-virus and spyware suppression
● filtering
● firewalls
● user access
● personal devices connecting to network

8. Creating a Digitally Secure Classroom
Students should:
● keep track of their digital devices
● use good passwords (and never share)
● back up data
● and learn digital etiquette & literacy

9. Digital Security in Society
These same issues have created a society
where identity theft, invasion of
privacy, and disruption in service
and productivity are more the norm
than the exception. Our digital society
makes us vulnerable.

10. Likewise in the classroom...
...it is not difficult to imagine the nightmare
caused in a school that is susceptible to:
● virus
● password theft
● servers, networks, and users not closely
monitored or updated

11. Ultimately...
...our digital experiences
expose us to a
world of dishonest people--
--people who wish
to invade our lives
for fun or profit.

12. Be proactive!
Digital Security ensures students are
safe, responsible, and successful.
Protect yourself by helping
your students protect themselves in a
digitally secure classroom.