K-12 CS Teacher Professional Development Workshop
Description: A network is a collection of computers, servers, mainframes, network devices, peripherals, and other devices that are linked together to share data. The Internet, for example, is a network that connects millions of individuals all over the world.
The network system has revolutionized how we live our day-to-day like the transfer of many, how we communicate with each other, and so on. But it also comes with security threats, such as the spread of viruses and malware, which can make individuals and big cooperation vulnerable to information leaks.
Learning Objectives:
Students will understand:
About network hardware devices and their functions.
Abstraction models of network and factors that have an impact on network functionality
The purpose of Internet and Web protocols, and the basic parts of URL
The hierarchical structure of Domain Name System(DNS) and the purpose and function of IP addressing
How Internet protocols address reliability, redundancy, and error handling
Digital and physical strategies for maintaining the security of network
Characteristics of strong passwords
Trade-offs in the use of security measures such as encryption, decryption and soon
What cybersecurity is and its five pillars
The components that make up the Web (eg. HTTP, HTML, and so on)
Mapping to Learning Objectives in K-12 CS Standards or GACE CS Assessment:
Activities: