Week of September 27th - October 1st, 2021

 

Monday:
Homework due today: Unit Two: Internet Vocabulary

 Read Secret Geek A-Team Hacks Back, Defends Worldwide Web and turn in this worksheet. Due tomorrow morning

Introduce "Computer Pioneer" project

Wrap up discussion of Internet technology:
What is a firewall

What is a proxy

What is a VPN

Review: HTTP and HTML
Demonstrate HTTP with Firefox developer tools

Tuesday:
Homework due today: Secret geek - turn in this worksheet

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'?

Videos (in class):

• 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: Precious, Devon, Madeline
P2: Tara, Marcus, Rishi, Dev, Naren
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)

Assign Technology personalities for Pioneer project

Allow for some in-class work on pioneer project - organize/research/questions

Friday:

Quiz on internet unit

Students will work on Computer Pioneers paper