The focus should be on how computing technologies can both perpetuate inequalities and help to bring about equity in society.
Ideas:
Tie into global syncretism
Explore technology through history
Discuss access to technology/resources and how it varies by country/region
Tie into an ethics unit
Explore History, and Geography lessons with Google Arts and Culture then discuss the impact this has had society
Learn about the impact advertising has on our global economy with this activity on Belouga about fast food chains
Watch this video to discuss the impact the iphone has had on society
Explore Google Trends
Use Google Arts and Culture to explore Women in Flight during WWII
9-12.IC.2 Debate laws and regulations that impact the development and use of computing technologies and digital information.
The focus is on developing and defending a claim about how a specific law related to computing technologies impacts different stakeholders.
Ideas:
Explore the Everfi lessons of Digital Wellness and Safety
Use Information is Beautiful Data to explore the largest Data Breaches in History
Explore resources about deepfakes around the Lunar Moon Landing
The focus is on developing and defending a claim about a specific ethical dilemma related to computing technologies.
Ideas:
Use the free the Hacker HighSchool curriculum to teach all about cyber safety and cybersecurity.
The focus is on discussing the personal and societal benefits and drawbacks of different types of data collection and use, in terms of ethics, policy, and culture.
Ideas for Social Studies:
Write an enduring essay on Cybersecurity or technology advances
Tie into a civic readiness curriculum
Explore the origins of women in computing
The focus is on applying an understanding of bias and ethical design in order to make recommendations for designing with inclusivity and social good in mind.
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At this level, considering accessibility becomes part of the design process and awareness of professionally accepted accessibility standards.
Ideas:
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Explore the laws and regulations around accessibility throughout history
Create a presentation using accessibility features such as closed captioning, alt text, etc.
Explore digital inclusion in the context of history
At this level, the focus is on making connections between computer science and the fields of interest of individual students.
Ideas for Social Studies:
Use Virtual Field Trips and Expert visits to explore global issues
Human Relations Day speakers
Job Shadowing
The focus is on using data to build alternative numerical models that can best represent a data set.
Ideas:
Create a spreadsheet model to simulate the effects of trade policies, prices, imports/exports, gov revenue
Stock market simulations
The emphasis is on designing and following collection protocols. Data sources include, but are not limited to sensors, web or database scrapers, and human input.
Ideas:
Explore data sets from these collections
Explore data from Citizen Science, Data Nuggets, NOAA
Use information from My NASA Data
Explore the data from Information is Beautiful to learn about data around the world
The emphasis is on refining large data sets to create multiple narratives depending upon the audience. Large data sets require use of a software tool or app to crossreference, analyze, refine, and visualize subsets of the data.
Ideas:
Use Bubble maps and other data to tell visual stories about the economy and more
Use MapMaker to create maps of any kind to visualize data. Discuss the impact this program can have on learning
The focus is on having students think about how to decompose a programming problem into functions and procedures, including working around the constraints imposed by specific functions or features provided in a library.
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The focus is on understanding that the same abstract concept can be performed in different ways in a program, as long as the same inputs yield the same results.
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The focus of this standard is a high-level understanding that algorithms involve tradeoffs, especially related to memory use and speed. Students should understand that classic algorithms are solved problems that can be reused.
Ideas:
Explore different algorithms in a historical research task
Explore vocabulary and using keyword searches
The focus is on updating the elements or components within a named instance of a data structure, without changing the value associated with the name itself.
Ideas:
Have students create a choose your own adventure timeline to explore loops and conditionals
The focus is on combining different forms of repetition and conditionals, including conditionals with complex Boolean expressions.
Ideas:
Explore how technology has impacted societal issues
The emphasis is on perseverance and the ability to use different test cases on their programs and identify what issues are being tested in each case.
Ideas:
Research historical events from different perspectives
Explore bias or errors in interpretation of a historical event
The focus is on the collaborative aspect of software development, as well as the importance of documenting the development process such that the reasons behind various development decisions can be understood by other software developers.
Ideas:
Use School AI to create a chatbot for students to 'talk' to.
The emphasis is on designing (but not necessarily creating) solutions with embedded systems. Systems can be biological, mechanical, social, or some other type of system. Designs could include written descriptions, drawings, and/or 3D prototypes.
Ideas:
Students can explore stems and data in history
Consider the ethical implications of data collection and use on historical events
Knowledge of specific advanced terms of computer architecture and how specific levels work is not required. Rather the progression, in general terms, from voltage to binary signal to logic gates and so on to the level of human interaction, should be explored.
Ideas:
Explore historical communication methods and compare to modern technology
Some examples of multi-step troubleshooting problems include resolving connectivity problems, adjusting system configurations and settings, ensuring hardware and software compatibility, and transferring data from one device to another.
Ideas:
Use escape rooms or digital breakouts
The focus is on understanding the design decisions that direct the coordination among systems composing the Internet that allow for scalability and reliability. Discussions should consider historical, cultural, and economic decisions related to the development of the Internet, as well as the core components of servers and routers.
Ideas:
Analyze the social and political implicationos of internet infrastructure and how it has impacted recent history
The focus is on discussing how specific emerging technologies impact networks in terms of scale, access, reliability, and security, and user behavior.
Ideas:
Debate how our society has changed with new technologies
Research ethical considerations of emerging network technologies
The emphasis is on identifying both personal information and organizational information, and devices and embedded systems, that an individual may have access to and that adversaries may want to compromise, obtain, or leverage.
Ideas:
Students can determine what PII they have in their school accounts vs personal accounts
The emphasis is on considering the CIA Triad when recommending safeguards for a specific application or device.
Ideas:
Explore the role of government in digital safety needs
Explore historical data breaches
The focus is on making security recommendations and discussing trade-offs between the degree of confidentiality, the need for data integrity, the availability of information for legitimate use, and assurance that the information provided is genuine.
Ideas:
Define the vocabulary such as confidentiality and integrity
Use real-world security scenarios to evaluate security risks
The focus is on analyzing the role that cryptography and data security play in events that have shaped history and impact the future.
Ideas:
Explore cryptography while studying about Nazi Code
Learn about WWII Women code breakers
Explore Cryptography with this Google Arts and Culture lesson
Play Fabricius to explore hieroglyphs with machine learning
Explore Bletchley Park and it's connections to today's cybersecurity
Explore Navajo Code Talkers Dictionary and compare to cybersecurity of today
Watch this video about National Treasure Ciphers Code and Codebreakers
Learn more about Code Talkers
Create your own Caesar Shifts
Review this lesson about Cybersecurity and Cryptography
The emphasis is on analyzing different types of breaches and planning appropriate actions that might be taken to prevent and respond to a security breach.
Ideas:
Explore the articles on this Wakelet collection
The focus is to demonstrate proficient keyboarding skills by the end of 12th grade.
Ideas:
Use the keyboard for classroom projects
Digital tools and methods should include both social and professional (those predominantly used in college and careers). Collaboration should occur in real time and asynchronously, and there should be opportunities for students to both seek and provide feedback on their thoughts and products.
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New technologies could include different tools for collaboration, creation, etc. that the student has not used before. Platforms could include devices running different operating systems or could be emerging STEAM technologies. Digitally fluent individuals can move between platforms and can use that knowledge when encountering new technology.
Ideas:
Create digital time capsules that encapsulate current events, cultural phenomena, technological advancements, and personal experiences from their lives today
Host a discussion on the importance of documenting history and the role technology plays in modern archiving
Active management implies an understanding of how intentional and unintentional actions can affect a digital presence.
Ideas:
Explore different search engines to see how historical events are laid out
Use Google News, Google Scholar, or Google Trends to explore important events over time
Learning for Justice Lessons
Strategies that support positive mental health in the digital world include both ways to avoid or handle cyberbullying and ways to interact positively and constructively with others in connected spaces.
Ideas:
Explore ways to protect against cyberbullying
Explore the impacts tech can have on mental health