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)
Wednesday:
Group 2 current events due today:
P1: Josh, Elsa, Ange, Kami, Jackie
P2: Ari, Caroline, Matt, Yana, Steve
Remember to enter your topic here and be sure no one else from your section is already doing it.
Homework due 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:
Homework for today is to read the following:
P1: Josh, Elsa, Ange, Kami, Jackie
P2: Ari, Caroline, Matt, Yana, Steve
Remember to enter your topic here and be sure no one else from your section is already doing it.
Homework due 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:
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)
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?
Videos:
Students list ways to avoid getting malware on their computers.
Friday:
Students list ways to avoid getting malware on their computers.
Friday:
Personal day for Mr. Judkis
Students will work on Computer Pioneers paper
