In my school, cyber safety was the same as the stranger danger talk. We were told if you don’t know who texted you, to call the number to make sure they were who they said they were. MSN messenger was blocked in the school, and so were most of the social media websites. It almost felt like it was a “if we don’t talk about it then it will be fine” kind of environment. When it came time for us to go to the computer lab we often were allowed to play Tetris on the computers, otherwise we were being taught Excel and doing typing exercises.
This was not really useful to myself as far as cyber safety goes, since we were never taught about people being able to steal stuff like credit card numbers from computers. When Dr. Hildebrandt showed us about the http vs https in regards to online purchasing, it was the first I had heard about it! Things like that should definitely be common knowledge, and taught when learning about safety.
– Dallas
