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.