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Standard Identifier: 6-8.IC.22

Grade Range: 6–8
Concept: Impacts of Computing
Subconcept: Social Interactions
Practice(s): Collaborating Around Computing, Creating Computational Artifacts (2.4, 5.2)

Standard:
Collaborate with many contributors when creating a computational artifact.

Descriptive Statement:
Users have diverse sets of experiences, needs, and wants. These need to be understood and integrated into the design of computational artifacts. Students use applications that enable crowdsourcing to gather services, ideas, or content from a large group of people. At this level, crowdsourcing can be done at the local level (e.g., classroom, school, or neighborhood) and/or global level (e.g., age-appropriate online communities). For example, a group of students could use electronic surveys to solicit input from their neighborhood regarding an important social or political issue. They could collaborate with a community artist to combine animations and create a digital community collage informing the public about various points of view regarding the topic. (VAPA Visual Art 8.5.2, 8.5.4)

Standard Identifier: 9-12S.NI.5

Grade Range: 9–12 Specialty
Concept: Networks & the Internet
Subconcept: Cybersecurity
Practice(s): Creating Computational Artifacts (5.3)

Standard:
Develop solutions to security threats.

Descriptive Statement:
Designing and implementing cybersecurity measures requires knowledge of software, hardware, and human components and understanding tradeoffs. Students design solutions to security threats and compare tradeoffs of easier access and use against the costs of losing information and disrupting services. For example, students could refine a technology that allows users to use blank or weak passwords. Alternatively, students could implement a firewall or proxy protection between an organization's private local area network (LAN) and the public Internet. Additionally, students could find and close exploitable threats on an infected computer in order to protect information.

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