The cyber safety video game teaching students how to stay safe online amid a rise in deepfake scams
ABCIn this Sydney classroom, year 5 students are playing a video game. "So what we do is we take scams from the dark web and we put them in the game," cyber safety educator Stacey Edmonds said. Mona Sidhu, cyber awareness and education manager for the NSW Department of Education, said it was important for young people to learn to question everything they see online and to listen to their gut feeling when something doesn't seem quite right. "For these students, friendships are online, relationships are online, shopping is online, banking is online and that's where criminals are," she said. "Kids our age, they know more about the internet and all the online stuff whilst older people might not have the same amount of knowledge of the internet," 11-year-old Ethan said.
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