Week of February 25th - March 1st, 2019

Monday:
Pioneers project due at beginning of class, on paper and via Turnitin.
Look over test review sheet, answer any questions
Begin working on Medical Informatics - every group must create a Google presentation and share it with Mr. Judkis before the end of class.

Tuesday:
We are having a strange schedule today, due to an assembly from 8 to 9, so we are shifting the test and Pioneer presentations back a day.  Instead today will be for working on the Medical Informatics project.

Wednesday:
Test on analog/digital, internet, and computer security
Everyone working on Medical Informatics when done

Thursday:
Group 4 current events due today:
per 1: Deeksha, Aleyna, Sarah, Parker, Molly
per 2: Regan, Molly, Maddy, Jess V., Reilly
Work on Medical Informatics for the remaining time.

Friday:
Computer Pioneers presentations
"Drop Everything and Read"

Week of February 18th - 22nd, 2019

Note that the Pioneers project is due on Monday, February 25th at the beginning of class, on paper and via turnitin.

Monday:
No school, President's Day holiday

Tuesday:
Homework for today is to read the following:

• How Phishing Works (from HowStuffWorks)
• Creepster of the Week: Webcam Hijacker Gets Six Year Sentence (2011)
• Cyberthieves Silently Copy Your Passwords As You Type (2006)
• Health Insurer Anthem is Hacked, Exposing Millions of Patients' Data (2015)
• Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They're Not Keeping It Secret (2018)
• I’m terrified of my new TV: Why I’m scared to turn this thing on — and you’d be, too and this followup
• In stores, secret surveillance tracks your every move (2019)

Videos (in class):

• Hacking Your Phone (60 Minutes) (13:00) sensationalized, but has some good information
• Medical Identity Theft
• Business Casual G-Men (link not usable from school. . . )

Wednesday:

JSUMC Orientation

Thursday:
Group 3 current events due today:
P1: Debdij, Shannon, Aleia, Ahan, Julia
P2: Maggie, Mark, Thirth, Neo, Mary Cate
Remember to enter your topic here and be sure no one else from your section is already doing it. 

Homework for today is to read the following:

• How Zombie Networks Fuel Cybercrime (2004)
• The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History (2018 - long but worthwhile, very current) (This one has a really bad word, repeated three times. I wish people wouldn't do that, because outside of that it tells an important story really well.)
• Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet (2016) . (try this link if the other isn't working. . . )
• DDOS attack that disrupted internet was largest of its kind in history, experts say (2016)
• (optional) Here is an fascinating description of the Stuxnet worm: What is the most sophisticated piece of software code ever written?

Videos (in class):

• Cyberwar Threat from NOVA (2015) (53:10)
• Ukraine blames cyberattack for Christmas power outage (2016) (5:48)

Friday:
Give out review sheet for test next Tuesday on analog/digital, internet technology, and computer security.

Begin Medical Informatics project.  Each group must create a Google Slides presentation and share it with me before the end of the period.

Week of February 11th - 15th, 2019

Monday:
Homework due today: Read Secret Geek A-Team Hacks Back, Defends Worldwide Web and turn in this worksheet.
Also, here's an example of how big a deal a compromised DNS can be: Hackers Hijacked Bank's Entire Online Operation. At least read the first paragraph or two and see if you're interested.

Introduce Computer Pioneer project

Wrap up discussion of Internet technology
DNS Explained video
News report from 1981

Review: HTTP and HTML
Demonstrate HTTP with Firefox developer tools 

Tuesday:
Homework due today: Read How Target Figured Out a Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did
Begin unit 3: Google, cloud computing, dynamic web pages
Essential questions:

• How does a search engine work?
• What do companies like Google know about us, and what do they do with that information?
• What is 'the cloud'?

Videos: 

What Google Knows About You (2:02)

Being a Google Autocompleter (2:37)

How Google Search works (3:15)
How Search Ads Work (2:38)
How Google Apps Work (1:51)
Google Data Center (4:52)

Wednesday:
Group 2 current events due today:
P1: Sahiti, Arielle, Albin, Grace, Jess M.
P2: Joe, Eric, Claudia, Sean, Alexa

Remember to enter your topic here and be sure no one else from your section is already doing it.

Homework for today:
Read Cookie Monsters.

Complete discussion of cookies and dynamic web pages.
Video:
What They Know - Advertising Cookies and You (7:15)
If time remains, students can work on Computer Pioneers project.

Thursday:

Begin unit 4: Basic principles of computer security, malware, privacy, and cyberwar.  Essential Questions:

• How does the pervasiveness of networked computers affect our personal safety and privacy?
• How does the pervasiveness of networked computers affect our national security?

Homework for today is to read the following:

• New Fast-Spreading Virus takes Internet by Storm(1999) 
• Slammed! An inside view of the worm that crashed the Internet in 15 minutes (2003) 
• The Facebook Virus Spreads: No Social Network is Safe (2008) 
• What is a Drive-By Download? (2013) 
• Hacker Lexicon: A Guide to Ransomware, the Scary Hack That’s on the Rise (2017)

Videos:
5 of the Worst Computer Viruses Ever
Security Dangers of Public WiFi

Students list ways to avoid getting malware on their computers.

Friday:
No school, President's Day weekend

Week of February 4th - 8th, 2019

Monday:
Homework for the beginning of class today: "Good Questions", binary/hex worksheet due

Complete binary/hex numbers discussion.

Begin discussing digital representation of sounds and images, digital cameras, CAT scans
What is Unicode?
Neil DeGrasse Tyson on Autotune
Audacity - free audio software

Begin discussing digital representation of sounds and images, digital cameras, CAT scans
Give out internet vocabulary sheet - due Wednesday

Tuesday:

Continue discussing digital representation of sounds and images, digital cameras, CAT scans

A little bit about pixels from code.org
Pixel widgets from code.org 
Aloe Blacc talking about compression from code.org 
Text compression widget from code.org 
Video compression as fast as possible
Let's enhance. . . 
Amped Software - from the crime scene to the courtroom
Gigapixel images
Jordan Peele uses AI, President Obama in fake news PSA
Fake videos of real people - and how to spot them (TED talk)
How hard is it to make a believeable deepfake? Very interesting article.

Wednesday:

Group 1 current events due today:
P1: Hazem, Rahul, Savi, Skylar, Perfecto
P2: Eva, Jack, Tyler, Judy, Abi
Remember to enter your topic here and be sure no one else from your section is already doing it.

Homework due today: Internet vocabulary

Wrap up digital representation of images and sounds, CAT scan

Discuss internet try-at-home, due Friday

Begin Unit 2: Basic Principles of the Internet

Essential Questions:

What is the Internet? Where did it come from, and how did it evolve?
How does it function?
What is a protocol? What is an open system?
What characteristics of the Internet have allowed it to become so pervasive?
How does the ability of computers to communicate with one another affect our lives?
Begin internet discussion of internet history and technology
Videos:
The Lighting of the Beacons
Pneumatic Tubes

Thursday:

Quiz on binary and hex numbers, digital representation of information

Continue with discussion of Internet technology.

Videos:
What is the Internet?
Wires, Cables, and Wifi

Friday:

Homework due today: Do TCP/IP try-at-home for Windows 7, and Mac OS/X. Windows 10 users, this page may be helpful if you can't figure out how to get telnet to work.
Continue with Internet technology unit.
Videos: 
IP addresses and DNS
Packets, Routing, and Reliability