Cybersafety | Educational Technology

The month of October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month! Every October we recognize this important topic to create awareness and to meet the requirements of the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA). As you know, digital citizenship and cyber safety are critical to preparing our students for college, career, and life. This competency is also called out in our district-adopted Graduate Profile.

During the week of October 16-20, 2023, all students, K-12, will participate in the district’s Cyber-Safety Week. The requirement is that all students receive at least one cyber-safety or digital citizenship lesson during this week or sometime during the month.

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Learning to search the Internet effectively and evaluate search results is critical for today’s students. As you know, Internet research skills are part of our FUSD student technology standards. Teachers have done a great job coaching students on using search engines to conduct research, but now Microsoft is helping out by providing a new Internet search assistant in Class Teams.

That’s right, the new tool is called Search Coach, and is now available to everyone in the FUSD Microsoft 365 organization. Teachers can easily add the Search Coach tool into their Class Team with just a couple of clicks. Search …

Every October we recognize National Cyber Security Awareness Month, not only to create awareness, but to meet the requirements for our E-Rate technology funding and the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA). As you know, digital citizenship and cyber safety are critical to preparing our students for college, career, and life. This competency is also called out in our district-adopted Graduate Profile.

During the week of October 17-21, 2022, all students, K-12, will participate in the district’s Cyber-Safety Week. The requirement is that all students receive at least one cyber-safety or digital citizenship lesson during this week.

Where to find Lessons:

Cyber Safety and other Digital Citizenship lesson …

Let’s face it – we live in a world where we are vulnerable to cyber hackers. To that end, we wanted to remind everyone about the potential risks and how to keep your confidential information from being compromised.

Phishing

Phishing is an ongoing cybersecurity issue for school districts everywhere. A phishing attach can come in the form of an email that looks like it was sent by a colleague or our IT department. The email then includes links to malware or online forms asking for confidential information.

In an effort to help us identify these malicious emails, our IT team has recently …

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