The document discusses the SeguraNet Challenges program in Portugal, which aims to promote cybersecurity education in schools. It outlines the program's design principles, goals, target groups including primary and secondary students as well as parents. Challenges are organized by school year and involve classroom activities such as creating videos or illustrations. Statistics on participation rates over time are provided for students, teachers, schools and parents involved in the challenges.

1. Budapest
May 30, 2012
Learning and Awareness
The Portuguese Challenges
INSAFE Resource Cluster meeting

2. SeguraNet Challenges
• Strategic activities developed in the Seguranet
project
• Target to Schools

3. Challenges design principles
– Reach the teachers in order to reach the students.
– Teacher can give access to their students to the
challenges (minimum effort)
– Teacher may have access before the students to
the challenge (classroom preparation)
– Teacher makes the work he/she can

4. Objectives
• Learning in Context (schools)
• Learning by doing
• Discussion and debate in the classroom by the
mediation of the teacher
• Promote the critical thinking in the students
• Educate with the Web and to the Web

5. Example Rules Challanges
• Learning in Context (schools)
• Learning by doing
• Discussion and debate in the classroom by the
mediation of the teacher
• Promote the critical thinking in the students
• Educate with the Web and to the Web

6. Context – Group Targets
• Public and Private Schools
– Primary Schools [6-10 year old]
– Lower & upper Secondary Schools [11- 18 year old]
• Parents

7. Goals
• To promote the critical sense in the students
– Learn with the error
– Not only awareness but learning using school
resources

8. Challenges – primary schools
• The themes for parents are organized
according to the students themes
• Promote school <-> home relations, reflection
and interaction in families

9. Challenges – Secondary Schools
– Each month the teams have an
evaluation/assesment
– Knowledge Building
– Results based on performance indicators( answered
correctly)

10. Parents - organization
• Codes organized by school Parents association
• Organized in Teams
• By School/Head teacher (in case school
parents association doesn’t exist)

11. Challenges- Registration

12. Primary Teacher makes
the registration of the
classroom
Secondary Schools

13. Secondary Schools
(upper, lower levels)
School
institutional
Code
Parents Teachers
Code Code
Parents Student
Team Registration

14. One Classroom
• Organized by classroom teams
– Each group has its leader – captain
– Each classroom group has a different punctuation
depending on the answers

15. Challenges - Incentives
• Prizes
• Participation forms
• Events/Resources publication in The
SeguraNet Site

16. Support Services
• Specific Platform
– Authorizations and registration
– Authoring Tool – challenges creation
– Challenges Management
• By School Year

17. Periodicity
• During the 1st , 2nd, 3rd School period
• In the Classroom during any discipline
• One teacher and several teams

18. Organizing challenges Classroom p
• Teacher register it’s team’s
• Each team is constituted between 3 students
to one classroom
• Each classroom has a maximum of 5 teams

19. Example – Primary Schools
• http://agrup-frazao-seguranet.blogspot.pt/

20. Primary School example
http://patatipatatan.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/seguranet/

21. Number of teacher, students, parents

22. Challenges Numbers
• Primary School
• 2009/2010
• Teachers 86
• Students - 1265
• Parents 275
• 2010/2011
• Teachers - 247
• Students - 6427

23. Dates Criteria
The challenges dates are choose according to
several criteria
• Not in the beginning of each school year
• Not too much near the end of the formal
assessment dates

24. Challenges Periodicity
• For primary school
– One by each school period
– Total 3 by each school year
• For Secondary School
– One by two month?
– Total of 7/8 by each school year
• For parents
– One by two months
– Total of 3 By each school year

25. Challenge Activities
Secondary Schools
• Respond to Digital learning resources
(including parents teams)
Primary Schools
• Creation of Video
• Creation of Illustrations and works under

26. Challenges design
• Based on Digital Learning resources (DLR) quality
criteria
• Pattern design methodology for each DLR
• Multimedia Learning (Mayer)
• Challenging questions, with increasing difficulty
• One or two e-Safety topics by each Challenge

27. Quality multimedia
• Quality assets that have peer or professionally
review.
• Specific terms not found in Portuguese are
made by the MoE Seguranet team and
integrated in the glossary.
• Creation of specific web page to support the
answer to the questions, when necessary.

28. Challenge Results
• How to find the Challenge SeguraNet winner
– Using a set off criteria – Rules for each challenge
– Percentage obtained in the Quiz
– Creativity
– Relevance for the theme

29. Statistics (secondary schools)
2010/2011
• Number of students registered - 33509
• Number of Teachers – 1857
• Number of parents teams - 1051
• Number of schools - 291

30. Parents participation
Parent Teams
1200
1000
800
Number parent Teams
600
Parent Teams
400
200
0
2007/8 2008/9 2009/10 2010/11

31. Students participation
Students
40000
35000
30000
25000
Number students
20000
Students
15000
10000
5000
0
2007/8 2008/9 2009/10 2010/11

32. School participation
Number of Schools
350
300
250
Number schools
200
Number Schools
150
100
50
0
2007/8 2008/9 2009/10 2010/11

33. Primary Schools
• Three Challenges a Year
Individual and Team Work is digitized
Presented By
Working and sent to
Teacher
(Teacher mediation) SeguraNet Platform

34. Secondary Schools
• Between 7 and 8) Challenges a Year
Team Working Questions are
Presented By
(Eventual Teacher answered trough
Teacher
mediation) SeguraNet Platform

35. Design Resource – Introduction and
ativitie context

36. Design Resource – introduction to
concepts

37. Design Resource
• Using positive
• messages and comics
• Feedback and
providing official and
reference sites

38. Thank You
fernando.campos@dge.mec.pt