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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
An Examination into the Effect of Early Education on Cyber Security Awareness Within the U.K.
Authors : Timothy Brittan, Hamid Jahankhani, John McCarthy
Published in: Cyber Criminology
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
Children are increasingly being exposed to more technology than ever before and at a younger age, with studies now being conducted investigating the effects of technology exposure from aged 0. European Commission, Joint Research Centre, (Chaudron, 2015), report has highlighted that today’s children by the time they leave education, will have used more technology and of a far greater variety than any within the current generations of working adults. According to the Children’s commissioner, (2017), currently one third of internet users are under the age of 18 – ‘Growing up digital’, and according to the UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS), 2017 the average time spent on the internet by 12 to 15-year olds is now 20 h per week.
With this in mind there is a need to ensure that they are not just utilizing the knowledge and skills of previous generations to use the latest gadget, app or software, but to know how it works, why it works in that way, and what it’s strengths and weaknesses are. This will give them a platform of knowledge that will overtake the current generations and take it much farther than we could have dreamed.