Cyber Resource Usage and Cyber Crime Awareness among teachers in the making at Sikkim

The rapid digitalisation of education emphasises the critical need for educators to possess both favourable attitudes towards integrating cyber resources and cybercrime awareness. This study investigates pre-service teachers' attitudes towards using cyber resources and their cybercrime awareness in Sikkim. The need for technology integration in education necessitates that teachers possess both a positive attitude towards utilising cyber resources and awareness of potential cyber threats. The research studied the levels of attitude and awareness among Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) students, based on gender, method paper, and college management (government/private). The results show that the majority of pre-service teachers hold a positive attitude towards using cyber resources. The study's results also depicted that most pre-service teachers had a high level of cybercrime awareness. Gender and method paper do not affect the attitude of pre-service teachers towards using cyber resources, while government pre-service teachers showed a significantly favourable attitude towards using cyber resources as compared to private pre-service teachers. There was no significant difference in cybercrime awareness with respect to gender and management; however significant difference was found in cybercrime awareness in relation to method paper adopted by the pre-service teachers.