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, politics and terrorism in cyber society.
Unit 2:Ethics and Communities
Students will complete lessons that ensure understanding of key ideas related to the ethics of technology used by designing a turning test for frienships and differences 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
A 100-90
B 89-80
C 79-70
D 69-60
F 59-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