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Grok Academy and CORE Education have created Cyber Skills Aotearoa, a programme to develop cyber security skills and dispositions in ākonga in Years 6-13. Cyber Skills Aotearoa consists of classroom ready activities and challenges that could be used within Hangarau Matihiko | Digital Technologies programmes and to raise awareness of cyber security careers. Following the Information Privacy and Security (Years 9-13) course released earlier this year, two new courses are now available and free for schools to use:

Information Privacy and Security (Years 6-8)

Designed specifically for primary school students in years 6 to 8, this course presents the concepts of sharing information and securing passwords and accounts through a series of conversations with the characters from a fictional social media world.

Log in or register for the course here:
English: Information Privacy and Security (6-8)  
Te reo Māori: Te Mōhiohio Tūmataiti me te Whakahaumaru (6-8)

Web Application Security

This course demonstrates the importance of security in web applications by exposing typical flaws in websites that can be exploited using tools built into the web browser. Students completing the course get a sense of how web applications are built, how to implement good security practices and the differences between ethical and non-ethical hacking.

Log in or register for the course here:
English: Web Application Security  
Te reo Māori: Haumarutanga Taupānga Tukutuku  

For more information, visit Cyber Skills Aotearoa at Grok Academy

Grok Academy and CORE Education have created Cyber Skills Aotearoa, a programme to develop cyber security skills and dispositions in ākonga in Years 6-13.

Cyber Skills Aotearoa consists of classroom-ready activities and challenges that could be used within Hangarau Matihiko | Digital Technologies programmes and to raise awareness of cyber security careers. 

The first course from the Cyber Skills Aotearoa programme: Information Privacy and Security is out now.

The Information Privacy and Security course covers:

• purposeful sharing
• password security
• password reuse and multi-factor authentication (MFA)
• phishing and scams
• careers in cyber security.

The course is free for Years 9-13, and is available in both English and te reo Māori.

Access the course here:

• in English - Information Privacy and Security (9-13)  
• in te reo Māori - Te akoranga whakamaru mōhiohio (9–13)  

The Year 6-8 course is coming soon.

Kaiako can also request sets of professionally printed cyber cards - a useful classroom resource to engage ākonga in rich discussions about online privacy and security.

For more information visit Cyber Skills at Grok Academy

Grok Academy and CORE Education have created Cyber Skills Aotearoa, a programme to help develop cyber security skills and dispositions in ākonga in Years 6-13. The programme provides free resources and support to teachers and kaiako.

Cybersecurity posters and other offline activities are also available to help students learn about information security. In Term 2 of 2023, free online courses will be released that will delve into cybersecurity topics in more detail. The courses and offline resources are available in both English and Te Reo Māori.

Teachers can also request sets of professionally printed cyber cards - a useful classroom resource to engage students in rich discussions about online privacy and security.

For more information about the project, visit Grok Academy - Cyber Skills Aotearoa . 

Cyber Skills Aotearoa is a programme to develop cyber security skills and dispositions in ākonga in Years 6-13. The programme provides free resources and support to teachers.

Cyber Skills Aotearoa opens with CyberComp - an online competition designed to take around 45 minutes. CyberComp will be open between 27 February and 24 March 2023.

Cybersecurity posters and other offline activities are also available to help students learn about information security. Free online courses will be released in Term 2 that will delve into cybersecurity topics in more detail. The resources are available in both English and Māori Medium.

Teachers can register their students for CyberComp now and can also request sets of professionally printed cyber cards - a useful classroom resource to engage students in rich discussions about online privacy and security.

For more information visit Cyber Skills at Grok Academy

At a special launch event hosted by Naenae College, Grok Academy and CORE Education introduced Cyber Skills Aotearoa, a programme to develop cyber security skills and dispositions in ākonga in Years 6-13.

Read about the launch event - Students urged to be like 'Roadrunner' and avoid cyber 'coyotes'.

The programme provides free resources and support to teachers. Cyber Skills Aotearoa opens with CyberComp - an online competition that takes around 45 minutes. CyberComp will be open between 27 October and 11 November 2022.

Cybersecurity posters and other offline activities are also available to help students learn about information security. In 2023 free online courses will be released that will delve into cybersecurity topics in more detail. The resources are available in both English and Māori Medium.

Teachers can register their students for CyberComp now and can also request sets of professionally printed cyber cards - a useful classroom resource to engage students in rich discussions about online privacy and security.

For more information visit Cyber Skills Aotearoa at Grok Academy.

This site is a key part of the Pacific Virtual Museum pilot project, implemented by the National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga  in collaboration with the National Library of Australia , and funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Australia. This pilot will run until February 2022.

It aims to empower people in and of the Pacific Islands, enabling them to explore, discover and view thousands of items held in museums, libraries, galleries, and collections around the world and to celebrate the rich and diverse cultures of the Pacific. It includes images, objects, video, audio, text, and maps.

Update 2022: The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has provided further funding until June 2023. This funding is to build on the work of the pilot phase, but also to enable travel and engagement in the Pacific region, that had not been able to be undertaken during the pandemic.

Network for Learning (N4L) is beginning free school internet health checks to ensure students can have the best and safest digital exam experience.

Through a partnership with the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA), Crown company N4L is preparing for more than 300 schools to take up the free offer to:

• assess their exam room internet speeds and security
• determine if there are any ‘dead spots’ without connectivity
• check that their wireless equipment can cope with the extra demand in the exam areas.

Read the full story on the N4L website »

Television and radio

Home Learning TV | Papa Kāinga TV will be back on Monday 17 August to support learning for children aged 2-to-11 years while Auckland remains in Alert Level 3.

Home Learning TV | Papa Kāinga TV will take over TVNZ DUKE's daytime schedule 9am to 1pm on weekdays. Programming for younger children includes the popular Karen’s House at 9am, followed by programmes for children aged 5 to 7, including junior movement with the Dingle Foundation and junior science and maths with Suzy Cato.

DUKE is available on Freeview channel 13, Sky and Vodafone TV channel 23.
It can be live streamed on the TVNZ website . Content will be available for catch up viewing on TVNZ OnDemand.

All earlier episodes of Home Learning TV | Papa Kāinga TV remain available through TVNZ OnDemand.

Māori TV

Mauri Reo Mauri Ora is back to support learning for children aged 0 to 18 years.
Mauri Reo Mauri Ora will be airing again on Te Reo Māori Channel via SkyTV, Vodafone channel 82 and Freeview Channel 15 from 9am to 3pm on weekdays.
Korou Whangataua, Juneea Silbery and Ani-Piki Tuari will host these interactive sessions focused on kōhungahunga in the morning and wharekura in the afternoon.
 
Content will be available for catch up viewing on Māori Television where you can also view all earlier episodes of Mauri Reo Mauri Ora.

Pacific Learners

For Pacific learners the Ministry of Education have developed the Talanoa Ako Pacific Parent programme - Talanoa Ako on Air radio programme and Talanoa Ako Digital App , both of which are still available. Options will be explored to move face-to-face Talanoa Ako sessions online if required.

Minecraft: Education Edition is now on the Chromebook platform in beta.

Try out the beta to help Minecraft developers uncover any issues so they can fix them before the official launch. Any user with an Office 365 Education account can download the beta. 

• Visit the Minecraft: Education Edition for Chromebook page for information »

• Visit our Minecraft page for more information on using Minecraft in your classroom »

Network for Learning (N4L), The Ministry of Education, and Netsafe have developed an internet safety filter for all students learning from home. Parents can set it up on their children’s learning device.

The safety filter blocks access to a range of websites known to be unsafe and inappropriate for learning. These include adult websites, as well as those known to host unsafe software, such as malware and phishing scams. 

Instructions on how to set up the safety filter can be found at www.switchonsafety.co.nz .