Practice PT - Big Data and Cybersecurity Dilemmas UNIT 4 – LESSON 9 – 2 DAYS IN CLASS PLUS TURN IN ON THIRD DAY THIRD DAY WILL ALSO BE ASSESSMENT IN CODE STUDIO, CLEAN AND GREEN, AND VOCABULARY TEST

PURPOSE: This lesson is an opportunity for your to synthesize your knowledge and understanding of Big Data, cybersecurity, cryptography, and computationally hard problems.

The project asks you to tie your research into a topic in the news with vocabulary and concepts covered in this unit of study. For reference, vocabulary and topics from lessons in this unit include: Big Data Moore's Law Encryption and Decryption Symmetric v. Asymmetric Encryption Computationally Hard Problems Public Key Encryption

At the end of the year you will need to complete the Explore Performance Task. The project we’re about to do asks you to conduct research on a big data or cybersecurity dilemma and present your findings both visually and in writing.

To conclude our study of Big Data and Cybersecurity you will be completing a practice Performance Task on a topic of your choosing. Hopefully this will be an enjoyable opportunity to dig deeper on a topic that piqued your interest over the last few weeks, and it will of course be useful preparation for the Explore Performance Task, which you’ll do at the end of the year.

Distribute: Big Data and Cybersecurity Dilemmas - Practice PT and also the AP Rubric - and as a class review the project guidelines and rubric.  REMEMBER TO FOCUS ON DATA AND CYBERCRIME!

PICK ONE OF THE TWO TOPICS don’t do both PICK ONE OF THE TWO TOPICS don’t do both! You can make an artifact – a video or audio file, a website, a program! Your response to any one prompt is no more than 300 words.

Identify an Artifact: This is perhaps the greatest deviation from the real AP Explore PT. For this, students do not need to create their own artifact. Instead they need to identify an audio or visual artifact (image, visualization, drawing, chart, video, interview, etc.) that highlights a harm or benefit caused by the innovation, or helps to explain it better. This may still be a challenging process. The goal is to help students think about what good audio / visual artifacts look like and how they present complex material. You can recall what students learned from the "Good and Bad Visualizations" lesson from Unit 2. In Unit 2 they also developed skills for developing good computational artifacts on their own.

Day 1 Review Project Guidelines and Rubric Select a big data or cybersecurity dilemma to research Identify online sources of information using the Research Guide Day 2 Continue to record findings in the Research Guide Identify potential artifacts to include Begin writing written responses Day 3 Complete any remaining research to answer questions Select and make any necessary edits to artifacts Complete written responses You will also have your Code Studio Assessment, Clean and Green due, and the Unit 4 Vocabulary Test on Day 3