Session 2: Context for Unit 10

5 minutes

facilitator presentation

Purpose

While most of our time today is spent talking about the simulation, it is important for participants to see that there are intermediate lessons between simulation lessons. This time is designated for some of that conversation.

Objectives

Participants understand the context for the Unit 10 project.

Supplies & Prep

Workshop Modality:

Whole group

Facilitator Supplies:

Virtual Module 7 - CSP 21-22 - Slides

Participant Materials:

None

Agenda

Context (5 minutes)

Facilitation Guide

Context (5 minutes)

Producer support:

During this time, fill out the slide titled “Roles for the simulation” with your participants’ names next to the character names already listed.
Remove any character names you do not use.

💷 Show the big picture of the unit.

Students learn through a full-class simulation which helps contextualize what students are learning by moving from abstract ideas of privacy or security to concrete potential innovations.
Between simulation lessons, students learn more information that informs their decisions in the simulations.

💷 Model using the encryption tools.

Demonstrate the Caesar Cipher Widget (linked in the slides). If you have time, you can choose to also show the Random Substitution Cipher Widget (also linked in the slides). The goal is to give participants an idea of the tools in the unit and how they are connected to CS.
In the case of the Caesar Cipher, you can see that the encrypted text is hard to understand, but using the tool, it is very easy to break. In CS, we are always looking to make sure our encryption tools are difficult to break.