Evaluate the advantages and limitations of existing computing devices to recommend design improvements based on analysis of how users interact with the device.
CS.HS.8.a
Design projects that combine hardware and software components that could complete a task.
CS.T.8.a
Use a systematic process to identify and evaluate the source of a routine computing problem. Select the best solution to solve the computing problem and communicate the solution to others.
11.1 Methodology
11.2 Support Practice
NI.N.8.a
Model the role of hardware components to diagram the infrastructure of networks and the internet (including cloud servers).
8.5 Clients and Servers
9.4 Internet Hardware and Sending Information
10.3 Network Devices
NI.N.8.b
Model protocols (i.e., rules) and explain why they are used to transmit data across networks and the internet.
9.8 Packets & Protocols
NI.N.8.c
Explain how a system responds when information is lost to understand the effect it has on the transferred information.
9.8 Packets & Protocols
9.9 Viewing a Webpage
NI.C.8.a
Explain how physical and digital security measures are used to protect electronic information.
1.4 The CIA Triad
2.4 Privacy & Security
5.1 Cryptography, Cryptology, Cryptanalysis
7.6 Application Security
7.7 Browser Configuration
7.8 System Administration
8.9 Common Security Problems
8.10 SQL Injection Overview
8.11 Types of SQLi and Prevention
10.6 Network Communication
10.7 Network Management
NI.C.8.b
Compare and contrast the effects of different types of malware to determine strategies for how to protect devices.
1.2 What is Cybersecurity?
1.3 Impact of Cybersecurity
2.4 Privacy & Security
8.9 Common Security Problems
10.6 Network Communication
10.7 Network Management
NI.C.8.c
Compare and contrast examples of various threat actors, such as nation-states, cyber terrorist groups, organized crime or hacktivists.
2.7 Hacking Ethics
NI.C.8.d
Explore and differentiate examples of complex encryption methods, e.g., Vigenère, Bacon’s cipher and Enigma.
NI.IOT.8.a
Explore career pathways related to IoT to identify careers associated with the computer science field.
NI.IOT.8.b
Model the lifecycle of information in the IoT including data gathering, transmission, reception and analysis to recreate a realworld scenario.
DA.DCS.8.a
Interpret digital data collection tools to manage information effectively.
8.4 Databases
DA.DCS.8.b
Identify data storage systems to define how data is stored and accessed.
8.4 Databases
10.4 Storage Options
DA.DCS.8.c
Create a logical file structure to organize data in different storage systems to support individual and collaborative work.
DA.VC.8.a
Evaluate data to construct a model or representation.
DA.VC.8.b
Create a spreadsheet utilizing formulas, functions and graphs to represent and analyze data.
DA.IM.8.a
Create and analyze models and simulations to accurately hypothesize a real-world situation.
ATP.A.8.a
Create multiple pseudocode to solve a multi-step process and justify the most efficient solution.
21.1 Challenge Problems
23.1 Control Structures Challenges
ATP.VDR.8.a
Analyze test cases and determine the range of valid solutions.
21.1 Challenge Problems
22.4 If Statements
22.9 While Loops
23.1 Control Structures Challenges
ATP.VDR.8.b
Use a data structure to represent a collection.
4.5 Arrays and Objects
ATP.CS.8.a
Use and apply decisions and loops in a program to solve a problem.
4.3 Looping
4.4 Branching
22.4 If Statements
22.5 For Loops in JavaScript
22.6 General For Loops
22.7 For Loop Practice
22.9 While Loops
22.10 Loop and a Half
23.1 Control Structures Challenges
ATP.M.8.a
Decompose problems and subproblems into parts to facilitate the design, implementation and review of complex programs.
ATP.PD.8.a
Write code that utilizes algorithms, variables and control structures to solve problems or as a creative expression.
22.4 If Statements
22.5 For Loops in JavaScript
22.6 General For Loops
22.7 For Loop Practice
22.9 While Loops
22.10 Loop and a Half
23.1 Control Structures Challenges
ATP.PD.8.b
Systematically test and refine programs using a range of test cases.
4.3 Looping
4.4 Branching
21.1 Challenge Problems
23.1 Control Structures Challenges
ATP.PD.8.c
Use procedures that utilize parameters to pass values.
AI.P.8.a
Explain how sounds and images are represented digitally in a computer to explain how sensor data is stored in a computer.
AI.P.8.b
Describe how a vision system might exhibit cultural bias if it lacked knowledge of objects not found in the culture of the people who created it to create inclusive and equitable data sets.
AI.P.8.c
Illustrate how sequences of words can be recognized as phrases, even if some of the words are unclear, by looking at how the words fit together to create a text recognition program.
AI.RR.8.a
Model the process of solving a graph-search problem using breadth-first search to draw a search tree.
AI.ML.8.a
Explain the difference between training and using a reasoning model to identify how a machine learns.
AI.ML.8.b
Illustrate how objects in an image can be segmented and labeled to construct a training set for object recognition.
AI.ML.8.c
Explain how the choice of training data shapes the behavior of the classifier to identify how bias can be introduced if the training set is not properly balanced.
AI.NI.8.a
Create a program, individually and collaboratively, that implements a language processing algorithm to create a functional chatbot.
AI.NI.8.b
Critically analyze and discuss features that make an entity “intelligent,” including discussing differences between human, animal and machine intelligence to identify how machine intelligence varies from natural intelligence.
AI.SI.8.a
Identify and explain how the composition of training data affects the outcome of a supervised artificial intelligence system to identify bias in data sets.
AI.SI.8.b
Identify bias potential in the design of artificial intelligence systems and describe how to utilize inclusive AI design to prevent algorithmic bias.
IC.Cu.8.a
Compare current technologies and how they affect the current economy.
9.10 Impact of the Internet
IC.Cu.8.b
Propose potential guidelines/standards/criteria to positively impact bias and accessibility in the design of future technologies.
9.10 Impact of the Internet
IC.Cu.8.c
Identify and explore careers related to the field of computer science.
1.3 Impact of Cybersecurity
2.7 Hacking Ethics
8.4 Databases
8.9 Common Security Problems
IC.Cu.8.d
Explain how computing impacts innovation in other fields.
9.10 Impact of the Internet
IC.SI.8.a
Evaluate the impacts of electronic communication on personal relationships to be able to evaluate differences between face-to-face and electronic communication.
7.4 Software and Applications
9.10 Impact of the Internet
IC.SLE.8.a
Explain user privacy concerns related to the collection and generation of data that may not be evident through automated processes.
2.4 Privacy & Security
7.5 Software Licenses
7.7 Browser Configuration
IC.SLE.8.b
Describe the social and economic implications of privacy in the context of safety, law or ethics to be global digital citizens.
2.1 Digital Footprint and Reputation
2.4 Privacy & Security
IC.SLE.8.c
Identify ethical and legal security measures used to protect electronic information.
1.4 The CIA Triad
2.4 Privacy & Security
7.5 Software Licenses
IC.SLE.8.d
Provide appropriate credit when using resources or artifacts that are not our own.
