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 Cyber Socity 

 

 

Course Overview

 

Cyber Society is a set of liberal arts units designed to introduce students to how the world of cyber security affects their lives.  This course focusses on the ethics of cybersecurity. The skills they learn from each mudule will help students become more confident in how they interact with the ever growing and conected world around them. The modules throughout this course will better prepare students to become educated members of the future cybersecurity workforce.

 

Course Content

 

Unit 1: Law, Politics, and Terrorism 

Students will work through a series of lessons and activities that both reinforce concepts and gauge understanding of law,  positics and terrorism in cyber society.   

 

Unit 2:Ethics and Communities 

Students will complete lessons that ensure understanding of key ideas related the ethics of technology use by designing a turning test for frienship atat differentiates between real and virtual frienships. 

 

 

Unit 3: Cyber Business and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Students will explore the implications of technology on business practices by discussing (synchronously and asynchronously) the power of data and their roles in protecting the data about themselves, designming a business recovery plan that addresses concerns of a data breach, and role playing situations that involve planning for various data privacy problems. 

 

Unit 4: Media Literacy and Analysis and investigation of Cyber Scenarions (AICS)

This Final Unit is brtoken into two distinct parts that have very diffrent assesment. To determine mastery of the media literacy content, students will work through a series of activities where they will apply stratagies to determine the relliability of an online source. Students will also work together to read through a series of texts from their daily press briefings, apply what they have learned about cyber security and come to a comclussion for each scenario. 

 

Grading Scale

A100-93

B92-85

C84-75

D74-67

F66-Below

 

Classroom Structure 

Students will enter the classroom and complete the bellringer. 

On homework days students will discuss homework.

Late work will not be accepted unless for exused abscences.

 

Monday

Intro to Lesson 

Tuesday

Activity/instruction

Wednesday 

Quiz/Instruction

Thursday

Study Guide/Instruction

Friday/Test Day 

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Teacher: Mr. Dezsiray L. Sullivan

Location A-5/Choir Rm

Phone extention 1432