This article is about the initiatives in Israel to educate youth on cyber technologies and cyber security. According to the article, the country announced a national center for cyber education. Children of all ages, even those in kindergarten, are being taught some form of cyber techniques including coding. A member if the philanthropic group running the center says, “we are building the next level of knowledge-how to code”.
http://triblive.com/usworld/world/11895689-74/israel-cyber-cybersecurity
Very interesting news, Ryan.
I am curious why they choose cyber techniques as the primary skill for children. It will be difficult to teach kindergarten children how to code. But it is good to know all the basic cyber knowledge.
Still it stands as a question to me how can they explain cyber-security to kindergarten kids.But if they are planning to do it then there must be some idea behind it.If the plan gets success then a lot of countries should try to replicate in their education system because the humans are the biggest vulnerability for attackers to target and it can create an IT aware environment .
This is really cool what they are teaching the youth in Israel. The tools and content now available to teach computers and coding is very vast. I don’t think it is so much of a challenge to teach kids the basics of coding and cybersecurity. I think the greater challenge is finding teachers in the public school system with the knowledge to teach these topics. I don’t know many kindergarten teachers that are coding javascript on the side.
I have three toddlers and they are very intrigued by all the technology available to them. Last weekend, we built a simple robot powered by Raspberry Pi in just an hour. When you pressed space bar, an LED light connected to the GPIO pins blinked and the robot said a silly phrase we recorded. We used Scratch to code the robot. Now, the kids couldn’t do this all on their own, but they really learned and absorbed a ton of information in just one hour!
Very good article Ryan. Other countries should do the same as this is something that’ll pay off big time in the long run. Many years from now, cyber security will not only be a strategy, but also a mentality and this is a smart way to start preparing for it.