Formation in the Early Adolescence of the Willingness to Ensure Personal Cybersecurity

Abstract

The current stage of education development in the Russian Federation is characterized by early inclusion of children and adolescents in the information space, to resist the negative information impact of which they are often not ready. In spite of the fact that the formation of a person capable of ensuring resistance to cyber threats is an urgent need for school education, actively involving the student in the digital information environment, at the moment the lack of effective pedagogical cures of this problem is observed. This paper describes an experiment on the formation of younger adolescence schoolchildren readiness to ensure personal cybersecurity on the basis of the technique developed by authors affecting mainly extracurricular activities for young adolescents. Results of an experiment have confirmed efficiency of the developed pedagogical cures of the studied problem. Thus, authors managed to create a technique which can be recommended for work with school students of early teenage age which analogs don’t exist.

Training Teenagers to Ensure Their Own Cybersecurity

“…There is a problem of children unwillingness to provide their own personal security in the information space. The earlier a child gets into the ICT environment, the more vulnerable he / she is to the impact of cyber threats, as there is no life experience and knowledge that will allow him / her to identify the threat and competently prevent it or resolve the situation with minimal losses [1].…”