The 17 year old teenage boy is quite different from his neighbours and classmates. Most of the kids under his age will be mostly chatting out in the social networking sites but he is quite different.
Now he is making out a curriculum on the cyber security with the aid of Infosys which will be 1st taught in his schools and then later will be adopted by CBSE.
Shourya Saluja, a student of 12th who is studying in Bangalore’s Indus International school is making out a curriculum for 9th to 12th classes which will be creating awareness about the cyber safety.
Its 3 components will be focusing on 3 safety matter of the social networking sites. Children are revealing too much info on their profiles; they share photos and accepting randomised people as their friends just in order to increase their friend’s list. Shourya said that they don’t know what hazard this will lead to. Children will be taught how to be protected by themselves from the hazards like phishing messages, things to look after LAN, internet security.
The other subject is Cyber ethics and the children will be tutored on how to be a very good cyber citizen.
After a period of 6 months Shourya planned to rate the triumph of this program and then ask for the approval to include this in the curriculum to the Central Board of the Secondary Education. He said that he got the idea when his sister, 10 year old, asked me to make a new Facebook profile with all her info’s. “I have realized that many Kids were unaware about the penalty of this”, he said.
Shourya approached the Punjab College of engineering which has the cyber security research centre. “When I said teaching the cyber safety in high schools, they said me okay. And there I did a 3 week, internship, conducted many surveys, did research and presented many papers on the gap between the current curriculum and I proved the need of this course. “In the second week of June, Shourya presented the papers to Infosys and convinced it to assist him in the course content.
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