Cybersecurity For Middle School

Designed for middle school students, this course introduces basic cybersecurity concepts, internet safety, and ethical online behavior.

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Key Skills You'll Acquire

In this course students will learn how navigate safely the internet and understand different cybersecurity threats

How to safely access and navigating internet
How to detect cyberthreats such as child predators, cyber bullies
How to protect their digital indenties using strong authentication

Course curriculum

1. Introduction
2. Whats Cybersecurity
3. Importance of Cybersecurity
4. Common Cybersecurity Threats
1. Introduction
2. What's a Password
3. How to Create Strong Passwords
4. Common Mistakes with Password
1. Introduction
2. What's Phishing
3. Indentifying Phishing Emails and Bad Websites
4. Smishing
5. Phishing Prevention Methods
1. Introduction
2. Privacy on Social Media
3. Online posts and their Potential impact on future
4. Online Cyberbullying
1. New Lesson
1. New Lesson

About this course

$29.99
19 lessons
1.5 hours of video content

Instructor(s)

Jema N

Senior Cybersecurity Instructor

Jema David Ndibwile is an assistant teaching professor in cybersecurity at Carnegie Mellon University. He previously worked at the Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology as an IT network specialist and a lecturer in cybersecurity. He earned a Ph.D. in information security from Japan's Nara Institute of Science and Technology in 2019. In assisting to address complex cyber security challenges, his specializations include cybersecurity, military intelligence, applied cryptography, ethical hacking, the psychology of cybersecurity, digital forensics, and cyber defenses.