SaTC: EDU: Advancing Cybersecurity and Privacy of Educational Technologies Used in K-12 schools

SaTC：EDU：推进 K-12 学校使用的教育技术的网络安全和隐私

• 批准号: 2309400
• 负责人: Florence Martin
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-11-01 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2309400&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SaTC; EDU; Advancing; Cybersecurity; Privacy

As the need and demand for digital learning have grown, there has been a sharp rise in the number and intensity of cybersecurity attacks on K-12 school networks and their users. These attacks—including phishing, data disclosure, denial of service, and ransomware attacks—threaten students’ and schools’ cyber safety and privacy by making their personal and educational information vulnerable. These increasing cybersecurity threats highlight a need for cybersecurity education targeted to school administrators and staff to ensure they are adequately prepared to decide which educational technologies to use and how to optimize their security configurations and features. This project will provide cybersecurity education directly to school administrators, technology support staff, and teachers across North Carolina through the novel Cybersecurity Awareness-Ask-Action (AAA) program. This professional development program will equip school educators with a deeper awareness of how to secure their educational technologies, the communication skills to enable them to ask security- and privacy-related questions of software providers, and critical information on how to act when they recognize a threat to the digital privacy and security of their schools.The project has three goals. First, K-12 school personnel will identify and analyze educational technology applications for collection, storage, and access to different student and school data types. Second, the project team will design and develop workshop modules for school administrators, technology support staff, and teachers. Last, the team will facilitate a summer Cybersecurity AAA program to implement the modules with school administrators, technology support staff, and teachers. Outcomes are expected to improve the cybersecurity protection of K-12 school systems and further secure their student data. Evaluation results will be used to improve training modules. Materials will be made freely available for use by other school systems across the country. This project is supported by the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program, which funds proposals that address cybersecurity and privacy, and in this case specifically cybersecurity education. The SaTC program aligns with the Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan and the National Privacy Research Strategy to protect and preserve the growing social and economic benefits of cyber systems while ensuring security and privacy.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

随着对数字学习的需求和需求的增长，网络安全攻击对K-12学校网络及其用户的数量和强度急剧增加。这些攻击（包括网络钓鱼，数据披露，拒绝服务和勒索软件攻击）通过使他们的个人和教育信息易受伤害来威胁学生和学校的网络安全和隐私。这些越来越多的网络安全威胁强调了针对学校管理员和员工的网络安全教育的需求，以确保他们已准备好确定要使用哪些教育技术以及如何优化其安全配置和功能。该项目将通过新颖的网络安全意识攻击（AAA）计划直接向北卡罗来纳州的学校管理人员，技术支持人员和教师提供网络安全教育。这项专业发展计划将使学校教育对如何确保其教育技术，沟通技巧，使他们能够提出与安全和隐私相关的软件提供商的问题的沟通技巧以及有关如何在认识到对学校的数字隐私威胁时采取行动的关键信息。该项目有三个目标。首先，K-12学校个人将识别和分析教育技术应用程序，以收集，存储和访问不同的学生和学校数据类型。其次，项目团队将为学校管理员，技术支持人员和教师设计和开发研讨会模块。最后，该团队将支持夏季网络安全AAA计划，以与学校管理员，技术支持人员和教师实施模块。预计结果将改善K-12学校系统的网络安全保护，并进一步保护其学生数据。评估结果将用于改善训练模块。材料将免费为全国其他学校系统免费使用。该项目得到了安全且值得信赖的网络空间（SATC）计划的支持，该计划资助了解决网络安全和隐私的建议，在这种情况下，特别是网络安全教育。 SATC计划与联邦网络安全研究与发展战略计划以及国家隐私研究策略保持一致，以保护和维护网络系统的社会和经济益处，同时确保安全和隐私。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识和更广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定使命，并通过评估诚实地表示支持。

项目成果

Examination of Cybersecurity Technologies, Practices, Challenges, and Wish List in K-12 School Districts

K-12 学区网络安全技术、实践、挑战和愿望清单检查

• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Journal of cybersecurity education research practice
• 作者: Florence Martin, Julie Bacak

Examining Technologies Used in K-12 School Districts: A Proposed Framework for Classifying Educational Technologies

检查 K-12 学区使用的技术：教育技术分类的拟议框架

• DOI: 10.1177/00472395231155605
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Journal of Educational Technology Systems
• 作者: Bacak, Julie;Wagner, Jonathan;Martin, Florence;Byker, Erik;Wang, WeiChao;Alhgrim-Delzell, Lynn
• 通讯作者: Alhgrim-Delzell, Lynn