Week of March 10th - 14th, 2025

 Monday:

Pioneer project presentations

Tuesday:

Pioneer project presentations

Wednesday:

Group 2 must turn in current events on February 12th and March 12th:

P1: Catherine, Jay, Charles, Jennifer, Asher

P2: Denis, Navya, Emily, Aiden, Hannah

Begin unit 3: 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?

Discussion: how have you been affected by computer security issues? Students list ways to avoid getting malware on their computers.

Slides for security/malware/cyber-war

Thursday:

For this morning, read the following: (it looks like a lot but these are short):

• New Fast-Spreading Virus takes Internet by Storm(1999)
• Slammed! An inside view of the worm that crashed the Internet in 15 minutes (2003)  (If wired.com says that you have read all your articles for this month, try again with your browser in incognito mode, delete your wired.com cookies, or try a different browser.)
• The Facebook Virus Spreads: No Social Network is Safe (2008)
• What is a Drive-By Download? (2013)
• New Jersey hospital chain pays attackers to thwart ransomware incident (2019)

Friday:

Sophomore hospital rotations