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Critical Content/Concept Web

 * Unit Theme**: **Computer Security**
 * Conceptual Lens: Systems: Analyzing the Threat**
 * Unit Length: Four Weeks**


 * ===Unit Overview=== ||
 * Threats to your data and PC come from two directions: accidents and malicious people. Through your PC, a malicious person can gain valuable information about you and your habits. He can steal your files. He can run programs that log your keystrokes and thus gain account names and passwords, credit card information, and more. He can run software that takes over much of your computer processing time and use it to send spam or steal from others. Imagine you are a college freshman just finishing your first semester in college. You are working on a ten page paper that you have invested hours of your time. Your computer, which your parents just purchased for you as a graduation present in June, keeps shutting down. You suspect you may have a virus because you have just downloaded files from Limewire.com. What steps do you need to complete to fix your computer? What do you need to do to keep your information secure? ||

Technical Writing Research Tools and techniques Solving contemporary issues and challenges ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * English || Mathematics || Science || Social Studies || Second Language || Art || Insert Integration Area ||
 * Literacy
 * Internet ||  || Systematic process

Designer(s):
Ruth Brown, Computer Technology Eric Horn, English

Students will understand the importance of computer security. Essential Question: Why is computer security important in today's society?


 * Region 9 Mission Statement:**Region 9 is a collaborative learning community, continually striving for excellence, providing a dynamic and challenging technical curriculum that will prepare individuals with the occupational, the academic, and the social skills necessary to be productive citizens and workers.