Q3 Safeguarding Your Devices: Introduction
Introduction
In this Quest, you will learn about computer updates, malware, and spyware. You'll investigate your family's computing device, checking the status of updates and sharing your knowledge with your family or guardians. This Quest helps to ensure the security of your devices to help safeguard your personal information.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Identify the importance of regularly installing software and operating system updates.
- Explain how software and operating system updates improve security and fix bugs/vulnerabilities.
- Define malware and explain common types like viruses, spyware, ransomware, etc.
- Identify ways malware can infect devices and compromise security.
- Recognize signs of a potential malware infection like popups, sluggish behavior, etc.
Competencies & Standards
MITECS Michigan Integrated Technology Competencies for Students, and
1. Empowered Learner
a. Articulate and set personal learning goals, developing strategies leveraging technology to achieve them, and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes
c. Use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways
d. Understand the fundamental concepts of technology operations, demonstrate the ability to choose, use and troubleshoot current technologies, are able to transfer their knowledge to explore emerging technologies
3. Knowledge Constructor
d. Build knowledge by actively exploring real-world issues and problems, developing ideas and theories and pursuing answers and solutions
5. Computational Thinker
c. Break problems into component parts, extract key information, and develop descriptive models to understand complex systems or facilitate problem-solving
d. Understand how automation works and use algorithmic thinking to develop a sequence of steps to create and test automated solutions
Websites and Applications
Websites
- 10 Must-Know Tips for Cleaning Every Electronic Device the Right Way
- Cybersecurity Lab Game from NOVA Labs
- Free Antivirus Protection for 2023 from PC Magazine
- MacWorld Best AntiVirus for the Mac
- What You Should Know about Tech Support Scams Article
Videos from Outside Sources
- How to Avoid a Tech Support Scam - Federal Treade Commission YouTube (3:06)
- Malware - Computer Skills for Kids and Teens YouTube (9:21)
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