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Unit 4: Big Data & Privacy The goal of this unit is to present a well-balanced view about data in the world, including the positive and negative effects of it. |
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U4Ch1L1_What Is Big Data | Students are introduced to the concept of “big data,” where it comes from, what makes it “big,” and how people use big data to solve problems. | Click here. | |||||
U4Ch1L2_Understanding Data Trends | Students will learn how to find and explain trends in data. | Click here. | |||||
U4Ch1L3_Check Your Assumptions (Data Analysis) | Students will analyze and validate data and come to understand the Digital Divide. |
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U4Ch1L4_Rapid Research & Data Innovations | Students will learn to look at how data is used with an increasingly critical eye. | Click here. | |||||
U4Ch1L5_Identifying People With Data | Students will learn the risks from large-scale data breaches as a result of the collection of Big Data. | Click here. | |||||
U4Ch1L6_Cost Of Free | Students will be able to explain the tradeoffs between maintaining personal privacy and using innovative software free of cost. | Click here. | |||||
U4Ch1L7_Simple Encryption | Students will understand the early forms of encryption and how they work. | Click here. | |||||
U4Ch1L8_Encryption With Keys & Passwords | Students will use a Vigenère cipher to learn about the relationship between cryptographic keys/passwordsand the Encryption & Decryption of a Message. | Click here. | |||||
U4Ch1L9_Public Key Crypto | Students will, 1. Learn the mechanics of communication with Public Key Cryptography(Assymetric Encryption), & 2. The basic mathematical principles (Modelo) that make it possible. | Click here. | |||||
Regulate Encryption? | Should the government regulate encryption by requiring software companies to provide Master Keys to protect us from terrorists? | Click here | |||||
Unit 4 Review & Test | Click here |
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