Collaborative Research: SaTC: EDU: RoCCeM: Bringing Robotics, Cybersecurity and Computer Science to the Middled School Classroom

合作研究：SaTC：EDU：RoCCeM：将机器人、网络安全和计算机科学带入中学课堂

• 批准号: 2312058
• 负责人: Brandi Stroecker
• 金额: $ 9万
• 依托单位: BattelleEd.org
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-15 至 2026-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2312058&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; SaTC; EDU; RoCCeM

Cybersecurity education is crucial to training, developing skills, and improving awareness. This is particularly true at a young age, given the increasing societal relevance of computers and the Internet. There is a great need for computational thinking to adequately understand key concepts in cybersecurity, as well as offer a powerful lens on computation as a whole. To address this need and opportunity, this project will develop a scalable, accessible curriculum engaging middle school students to improve recruitment and retention in cybersecurity and computer science. The primarily project-based curriculum will focus on block-based programming of robots, spanning computing and cybersecurity. Key cybersecurity principles will be introduced in a social context involving human-to-human communication challenges, then mapped to technical skills using a collaborative, virtual robotics platform. Students can connect computational challenges with interpersonal situations, becoming familiar with the foundations of cybersecurity and preparing themselves for responsible social interactions online.The project will produce sorely-needed K-12 cybersecurity educational materials that are engaging, rigorous, and relevant to current cybersecurity trends. Making such trends and corresponding security strategies concrete, accessible, and relevant for middle school students with little to no background in programming is a significant challenge. The team will develop a 9-week modular curriculum spanning computing fundamentals and block-based programming, network communication, introductory cybersecurity concepts, and cooperative cybersecurity challenges. The project will ground cybersecurity principles in human-human interactions so that young learners can understand the key concepts in cybersecurity that are fundamental to interactions that occur in the outside the classroom. The project will have broad impact by providing an engaging environment and rigorous tasks to raise students' interest in cybersecurity, computing and robotics, and by flattening the learning curve required to engage with hands-on cybersecurity through an intuitive block-based language. After pilot testing in multiple schools, the project will provide a clear path to scale up to state-wide implementation in Tennessee.This project is supported by the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program, which funds proposals that address cybersecurity and privacy, and in this case specifically cybersecurity education. The SaTC program aligns with the Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Strategic Plan and the National Privacy Research Strategy to protect and preserve the growing social and economic benefits of cyber systems while ensuring security and privacy.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

网络安全教育对于培训，发展技能和提高意识至关重要。鉴于计算机和互联网的社会意义越来越多，在年轻时尤其如此。非常需要计算思维，以充分了解网络安全的关键概念，并为整个计算提供强大的镜头。 为了满足这一需求和机会，该项目将开发可扩展的，可访问的课程，吸引中学生，以改善网络安全和计算机科学的招聘和保留。主要基于项目的课程将集中于基于块的机器人编程，涵盖计算和网络安全。关键的网络安全原则将在涉及人类到人类沟通挑战的社会环境中引入，然后使用协作，虚拟机器人技术平台映射到技术技能。 学生可以将计算挑战与人际关系情况联系起来，熟悉网络安全的基础，并为在线负责任的社交互动做准备。该项目将产生急需的K-11网络安全教育材料，这些材料具有引人入胜，严格且与当前网络安全趋势相关。制定这种趋势和相应的安全策略具体，可访问且与几乎没有编程背景的中学学生相关，这是一个重大挑战。该团队将开发一个为期9周的模块化课程，跨越计算基础知识和基于块的编程，网络通信，入门网络安全概念以及合作的网络安全挑战。该项目将基础人类互动中的网络安全原则，以便年轻的学习者可以理解网络安全的关键概念，这些概念是教室外发生的相互作用的基础。该项目将通过提供引人入胜的环境和严格的任务来产生广泛的影响，以提高学生对网络安全，计算和机器人技术的兴趣，并通过基于直观的块语言与动手的网络安全互动所需的学习曲线。在多所学校进行了试点测试之后，该项目将为田纳西州的全州实施提供清晰的途径。该项目得到了安全且可信赖的网络空间（SATC）计划的支持，该计划资助了针对网络安全和隐私性的建议，在这种情况下，在这种情况下是针对网络安全性教育的。 SATC计划与联邦网络安全研究与发展战略计划以及国家隐私研究策略保持一致，以保护和保留网络系统的社会和经济益处，同时确保安全和隐私。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并认为通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛的影响，可以通过评估来进行评估，以审查Criteria。