Befriend with the machines

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21st century skills are a broad set of knowledge, skills, work habits and character qualities to ensure well-being, participation and employment that are needed in our nowadays rapidly changing society. Befriend with the machines is one of the skills zones that are part of the 21st century skills. Befriend the machine skills need to be continuously increased, improved and changed due to the fast technology developments.
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Peer-interviews with young people showed that not everybody is aware of their technical and digital skills, knowledge and attitude that they are using daily, neither are young people always aware that there are a lot opportunities that can help to develop Befriend the machine skills. Technical innovation development is fast, imaganing what 2030 will look like, will help in knowing what skills you need to devlop. Many young people can learn from friends, from games, from sports, from employers and so on.
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In this learning playlist you will find 2 businesses (Warp VR and Hoffmann) that share their work and expertice concering the Befriend with the Machine skills zone. Also they have 2 challenges for you to respond at. This will make your Befriend with the Machine skills awareness grow.
 
Another highlight of this learning playlist is the opportunity to take part in the Mozilla Festival workshop and designing an learning activity for young people. We invite you in this activity to think about something technical or digital that has your interest and then think how you can share your knowledge, skill or attitude with young people so the awareness of the Befriend the machine skills zone will grow. 
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The future ready activity will let you think about the future, what will it look like? This will give you an idea what to prepare for so you already you can start learning not only for what you need to have for skills today, but more over, which skills you would need to have tomorrow, so you know how to create your learning path.
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The Befriend with the machines learning playlist is part of the projects Digital Generation Youth and Cities of learning, youth co-design learning, civic and career pathways where the skill zone Befriend the machine is one of topics that will be spoken about among young people.
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Feel free to complete all activities or just 1, you are the one that creates your own learning path! For each activity you can earn an open badge.When you finish all activities you will earn the learning playlist open badge. You can share these open badges for example at your CV.
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Most of all, enjoy learning!

Activities to complete

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MozillaFestival: Befriend with the Machines - awareness campaign

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3 hours

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Mozilla Festival: Befriend with the machines - online workshop

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1 hour

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WARP VR

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30 minutes

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HOFFMANN CYBERSECURITY

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30 minutes

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Company information is worth its weight in gold. You like to keep that in safe hands. In the digital world in which we live, this is not so easy. This often requires more secure networks, well-thought-out processes, and cyber-aware employees.With preventive research into information security, Hoffmann provides insight into the crown jewels of a company and where the business risks lie. Together with the company, it is determined where immediate attention is needed and where less, looking at technology, processes, and people's behavior. Hoffmann has the specialists, technology, and tools in-house to optimize the information security of companies and to train employees in cyber-safe behavior. This reduces the chance of becoming a target of cybercrime or espionage. Should an incident nevertheless take place, experienced advisers are ready to take immediate action.
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Challenges for Hoffmann
Cyber-attacks have been in the news again a lot lately. For example, the systems of the Hof van Twente municipality were encrypted and hackers could view information about the Pfizer vaccine at the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in Amsterdam. At Hoffmann, they have noticed for some time that the fear of cyber attacks with ransomware is on the increase.
This fear is justified because hackers are currently targeting (large) SMEs, governments, and large (international) companies. There they can demand large amounts of ransom. Also, hackers are increasingly professional. They nowadays think more carefully about how they approach their targets. Not long ago, they sent an email (often poorly worded) with an infected attachment to many different individuals and businesses. A shot with hail, as it were. Nowadays they opt for a very focused and personal approach, in which they research the organization and the people who work there in advance. This allows them to send a personalized and credible email, increasing the likelihood that the attachment will also be opened.
They still shoot with hail. But because they respond much more than before to current events and sentiments in society, these e-mails are much more effective. For example, many fraudulent emails this year had a subject related to corona (updates, the NOW scheme, or vaccines), the benefits affair at the Tax Authorities, and - most recently - Black Friday. The chance that a recipient of such an e-mail will click on the attachment is much bigger than with a less topical or sensitive subject.
Until recently, hackers allowed the malware to automatically spread across the network to encrypt files. Nowadays they provide themselves with access to the network and are very focused on looking for opportunities to penetrate and infect critical systems.They also look for backups and backup systems, to encrypt them and/or make them inaccessible. This makes it less easy for organizations to ignore a ransom demand because they can no longer use the backup systems.
Finally, we see that hackers not only encrypt data and then request a ransom, but also increasingly steal (sensitive) data. This allows them to reinforce their ransom demand and increase the pressure by threatening to make that information public.

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Types of cybercrime

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Company information is worth its weight in gold. You like to keep that in safe hands. In the digital world in which we live, this is not so easy. This often requires more secure networks, well-thought-out processes, and cyber-aware employees.With preventive research into information security, Hoffmann provides insight into the crown jewels of a company and where the business risks lie. Together with the company, it is determined where immediate attention is needed and where less, looking at technology, processes, and people's behavior. Hoffmann has the specialists, technology, and tools in-house to optimize the information security of companies and to train employees in cyber-safe behavior. This reduces the chance of becoming a target of cybercrime or espionage. Should an incident nevertheless take place, experienced advisers are ready to take immediate action.
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Challenges for Hoffmann
Cyber-attacks have been in the news again a lot lately. For example, the systems of the Hof van Twente municipality were encrypted and hackers could view information about the Pfizer vaccine at the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in Amsterdam. At Hoffmann, they have noticed for some time that the fear of cyber attacks with ransomware is on the increase.
This fear is justified because hackers are currently targeting (large) SMEs, governments, and large (international) companies. There they can demand large amounts of ransom. Also, hackers are increasingly professional. They nowadays think more carefully about how they approach their targets. Not long ago, they sent an email (often poorly worded) with an infected attachment to many different individuals and businesses. A shot with hail, as it were. Nowadays they opt for a very focused and personal approach, in which they research the organization and the people who work there in advance. This allows them to send a personalized and credible email, increasing the likelihood that the attachment will also be opened.
They still shoot with hail. But because they respond much more than before to current events and sentiments in society, these e-mails are much more effective. For example, many fraudulent emails this year had a subject related to corona (updates, the NOW scheme, or vaccines), the benefits affair at the Tax Authorities, and - most recently - Black Friday. The chance that a recipient of such an e-mail will click on the attachment is much bigger than with a less topical or sensitive subject.
Until recently, hackers allowed the malware to automatically spread across the network to encrypt files. Nowadays they provide themselves with access to the network and are very focused on looking for opportunities to penetrate and infect critical systems.They also look for backups and backup systems, to encrypt them and/or make them inaccessible. This makes it less easy for organizations to ignore a ransom demand because they can no longer use the backup systems.
Finally, we see that hackers not only encrypt data and then request a ransom, but also increasingly steal (sensitive) data. This allows them to reinforce their ransom demand and increase the pressure by threatening to make that information public.

Tasks

Task no.1

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Hoffmanns challenge for you: Not only companies but individuals too are increasingly confronted with cybercrime. Many young people are not or only partially aware of the cybercrime dangers, while they use their mobile phones or other digital devices every day. How can you help other young people to become more aware of cybercrime and what they can do themselves to prevent cybercrime?

Global Youth Skills: Pathways for future-ready learners

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20 minutes

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Teamwork with digital assistants and robots

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20 minutes

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Digital Fluency

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45 minutes

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Simulated action

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20 minutes

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Skills

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#think analytically

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#cyber security

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#reflexion

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#model sensor

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#digital communication and collaboration

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#promote social awareness

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#plan future capacity requirements

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#education administration

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#mechatronics

Activities: 8

Started: 14

Completed playlist: 0

Time to complete: 6 hours 45 minutes

Organisers

Tilburg City of Learning

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