COTEK: Co-Design of Technology Comprehension in Teacher Education with a focus on Cybersecurity and Cryptography
This project examines how future teachers can teach them to understand and explore cybersecurity through a constructive, analytical, and critical approach.
Children and young people are increasingly surrounded by complex digital technologies, in which understanding the opportunities and risks related to data protection is central to acting competently in a digitalized society. At the same time, cybersecurity and cryptography also open up new opportunities to strengthen our fundamental values such as freedom of speech, equality, and democracy.
This project examines how future teachers can teach them to understand and explore cybersecurity through a constructive, analytical, and critical approach. The project uses cybersecurity as an umbrella term for security and privacy related to digital data. The project's approach is to work with fundamental concepts and techniques from the research and educational fields of cryptography, and to examine how future teachers can teach them in ways that make them understandable and accessible to children.
By introducing foundational knowledge in cybersecurity and cryptography, we sharpen teachers' and children's understanding of security and privacy in their lives and the surrounding society, while also contributing to qualifying the democratic conversation about how we shape the society of the future.
Funded by Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science
Period: 2025 - 2028