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Indiana Computing Foundations for a Digital Age

Networks and the Internet

Students explore the structure and design of the internet and networks, and how this design affects the reliability of network communication, the security of data, and personal privacy. Students will learn how the Internet connects computers all over the world by use of networking protocols.

Lessons

3.1 What is the Internet?

  • What is the Internet?
  • Wired and Wireless Networks
  • Submarine Cable Map Exploration
  • Submarine Cable Map Exploration Submission
  • Vint Cerf: The Theory of the Internet
  • +1 more

3.2 IP Addresses

  • Protocol Exploration
  • Protocol Exploration Submission
  • Intro to IP Addresses
  • IoT IP Address Scavenger Hunt
  • IP Address Scavenger Hunt Responses
  • +2 more

3.3 Routing and Packets

  • Introduction to Routing
  • Routing with the ARPANET
  • ARPANET and Routing Reflection
  • Packets
  • Ping Exploration
  • +2 more

3.4 Impact of the Internet

  • Introduction: Impact of the Internet
  • Compass Points Introduction
  • Compass Points: The Internet

3.5 Network Devices

  • Network Devices
  • Setting Up a Network
  • Pioneers in Wi-Fi and Fiber Optics
  • Speed Test
  • Speed Test
  • +2 more

3.6 Network Options

  • Network Options
  • Network Options Quiz
  • What is an SSID?
  • What is an SSID?
  • Router Placement
  • +1 more

3.7 Network Communication

  • Network Communication
  • Network Communication Quiz
  • Setting up a Firewall
  • iptables
  • iptables simulation

3.8 Network Management

  • Linux/MacOS vs. Windows
  • Network Management
  • Network Management Quiz
  • MacOS Terminal Simulation
  • Windows Command Prompt Simulation
  • +4 more

3.9 IT Concepts Quiz

  • IT Concepts Quiz