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'?
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)
How Search Ads Work (2:38)
How Google Apps Work (1:51)
Google Data Center (4:52)
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:
5 of the Worst Computer Viruses Ever
Security Dangers of Public WiFi
Students list ways to avoid getting malware on their computers.
- 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)
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
No school, President's Day weekend
