4.1: The World of Big Data and Encryption
- Lesson 1: What is Big Data?
- Lesson 2: Finding Trends with Visualizations
- Lesson 3: Check Your Assumptions
- Lesson 4: Rapid Research - Data Innovations
- Lesson 5: Identifying People with Data
- Lesson 6: The Cost of Free
- Lesson 7: Simple Encryption
- Lesson 8: Encryption with Keys and Passwords
- Lesson 9: Public Key Cryptography
- Lesson 10: Rapid Research - Cybercrime
Big Questions
- What opportunities do large data sets provide for solving problems and creating knowledge?
- How is cybersecurity impacting the ever-increasing number of Internet users?
- How does cryptography work?
Enduring Understandings
- 3.2 Computing facilitates exploration and the discovery of connections in information.
- 3.3 There are trade offs when representing information as digital data.
- 4.2 Algorithms can solve many but not all computational problems.
- 6.3 Cybersecurity is an important concern for the Internet and the systems built on it.
- 7.1 Computing enhances communication, interaction, and cognition.
- 7.3 Computing has a global affect - both beneficial and harmful - on people and society.
- 7.4 Computing innovations influence and are influenced by the economic, social, and cultural contexts in which they are designed and used.