Hacker Highschool Teachers Wanted

Las Vegas, NV - August 13, 2004 - "The principles of hacking should be taught in schools," said Pete Herzog. "It is the principles teens need to learn to avoid from being victims on the Internet."

Herzog runs Hacker Highschool, a program to teach kids and teens security awareness and critical, Internet research skills. The program contains free security and privacy awareness teaching materials and back-end support for teachers of accredited elementary, junior high, and high schools. There are 12 workbooks in all available in Spanish and English. These are lessons that challenge teens to be resourceful like hackers include safe chatting, web privacy, using the Internet for research, avoiding viruses and Trojans, legalities and ethics, and more. It has been developed to be a supplement to student course work or as part of after-school and club activities. The materials and project information can be found at www.hackerhighschool.org. 

That's true is that today's kids and teens are in a world with major communication and productivity channels open to them and they do not have the knowledge to defend themselves against the fraud, identity theft, privacy theft, and attacks made against them just by switching on the computer. "Such Internet skills are as important today for these kids’ real-world education today as it is to learn math," said Herzog.

Teachers or anyone interested in teaching the program can get a head start on learning how to teach it and even be certified to teach it. ISECOM provides the accredited Hacker Highschool Teacher certification which will be taught for the first time in the USA at the University of Las Vegas, Nevada from October 18th to the 23rd. Additional information on the ISESTORM event is available at www.isestorm.org. 

The open-source-focused ISESTORM will include teaching the technical know-how, the legalities and ethics on the Internet as a communication medium, and specifically in teaching Internet resourcefulness responsibly to children. Teachers will be provided with project plans, resource information and the opportunity to sign up their schools for access to the ISECOM HHS Lab Network for lab practice over the Internet.

You can register for the program or the Las Vegas kick-off and certification classes at UNLV through www.hackerhighschool.org or directly at www.isestorm.org.

For more information:

ISECOM, info<at>hackerhighschool.org, http://www.hackerhighschool.org, http://www.isestorm.org, http://www.isecom.org