Cybercrime and the Law
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An understanding of the Civics and Citizenship concepts is developed through a focus on Australia’s democracy and legal system. The teaching ideas in this resource assist students to gain knowledge and understanding of how Australia’s legal system aims to provide justice, through the rule of law. Links to curriculum codes: AC9HC7K03 / VC2HC8K05

An understanding of the Civics and Citizenship concepts is developed through a focus on how citizens can participate in Australia’s democracy, including use of the electoral system, contact with their elected representatives, use of lobby groups, and direct action.
Links to curriculum codes: AC9HC8K01 / VC2HC8K06

An understanding of the Civics and Citizenship concepts is developed through a focus on how Australia’s legal system works to support a democratic and just society. The teaching ideas in this resource assist students to gain knowledge and understanding regarding the key principles of Australia’s justice system, including equity before the law, independent judiciary, right to appeal and the factors that can undermine the application of the principles of justice.
Links to curriculum codes: AC9HC9K04 / VC2HC10K05

An understanding of the Civics and Citizenship concepts is developed through a focus on what are the features of a resilient democracy. The teaching ideas in this resource assist students to gain knowledge and understanding regarding the challenges to and ways of sustaining a resilient democracy and cohesive society. Links to curriculum codes:  AC9HC10K05 / VC2HC10K10  

Introduction

We support the view that schooling should develop a sense of community engagement in students by increasing their potential to be informed, responsible, ethical and active participants in society.

Through practical tasks relating to real life experiences, these free resources help students develop a positive attitude towards their role in society. They enable teachers to select lesson ideas within a theme in any order, to best suit curriculum requirements and the interest of students.

Digital resources embedded in these resources comply with the Social Media Minimum Age obligation (SMMA obligation) and have been chosen with careful consideration to support learning and wellbeing.  Some resources feature YouTube videos that can be seen without logging into an account. These should be viewed by students with teacher support.

We developed these to make the compulsory content of the Australian Curriculum Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) Civics and Citizenship syllabus for Years 7-10 more engaging.

To make things easy, lesson ideas link directly to the Australian and Victorian content codes and key concepts, namely, Democratic Values, The Westminster System, Justice, Participation, and Rights and Responsibilities.  The activities provided are just suggestions and should be adjusted to suit the student cohort.

Specific lessons in this theme can also be used to support the teaching of lower secondary Digital Technologies, The Arts (Media Arts), Health & Physical Education and English content.

A number of the activities in this resource link to the eSafety Commissioner’s website. Crime Stoppers Australia would like to acknowledge the important work carried out by the eSafety Commissioner to empower Australians to have a more positive and safe online experience.

Learning Intentions

Resource Focus

Community safety and wellbeing is enhanced when individuals understand the law and take action to prevent crime.

This resource provides students in years 7-10 with the opportunity to explore what a digital citizen is and how Australia’s democracy, and other democracies, may be undermined by cybercrime. It explores the safeguards that individuals and governments can put into place to protect Australia’s and individual’s democratic online rights.

Please note that some students may have experienced negative themes explored in this resource. It is important that the teacher, prior to teaching the resource, knows where student support is within the school and community, and provides this information to students prior to teaching the themes.

If teachers wish to access professional learning to support teaching online safety, eSafety provides a free professional learning program which covers the latest online safety research, case studies and teaching strategies to help educators integrate online safety into their programs and student wellbeing planning.

Students Understand:

  • What it means to be a digital citizen
  • That technology can facilitate criminal activity
  • How to interpret cybercrime statistics
  • How to be cyber safe
  • How to recognise fake news
  • Cybercrime and the law

Lesson Ideas

You as a Digital Citizen Fake News and You Cybercrime Our Cyber Safety Cybercrime and the Law How You Can Report Cybercrime

Further Student Enquiry

  • Students explore more strategies for identifying fake news and use this information to create a toolkit poster to assist others to identify fake news.
  • Students explore The Internet and the Law in more depth using the following eSafety Commissioner activity.
  • Students explore and discuss current e-safety campaigns and resources on State and Territory Crime Stoppers websites.
  • The ThinkUKnow website provides a range of parent, carer, teacher and student resources focusing on the prevention of online child sexual exploitation. Select a topic relevant to your student group and request a presentation.

Assessment

Formative

  • Students write their own digital citizenship classroom manifesto.
  • Students write their own definition and give examples of cybercrime.
  • Conduct a class discussion about whether cybercrime legislation will need to change as technology improves and why this will be required?
  • Conduct a class discussion about the role media can play to highlight the importance of e-safety.
  • Students explain why, as good citizens, people should report cybercrimes through Crime Stoppers and/or the eSafety Commissioner.

Summative

  • Many of the activities in the lesson ideas can be used for summative assessment.
  • Students present, in an appropriate format, their responsibilities as a digital citizen and how these reflect agreed Australian values.
  • Students present, in an appropriate format, their understanding of the impacts of cybercrime on Australians and what action is being taken to protect Australian’s democratic online rights.
  • Students present, in an appropriate format, their understanding of how to be cyber safe.
  • Students present, in an appropriate format, their views on how our legal system both protects citizens against technology crime and requires them to be active digital citizens.