Q3 Safeguarding Your Devices: Vocabulary
Key Vocabulary
Adware: Adware is software that displays ads on your computer, collects marketing data about you (what you like and sites you use), and can redirect your search results.
Antivirus Software: Antivirus software is software used to detect and eliminate computer viruses and other types of malware.
Malware: Malware is software that is intended to damage or disable computers and computer systems, such as ransomware, rootkits, spyware, trojan horses, viruses, worms,
Spyware: Spyware is software that aids in gathering information about a person or organization without their knowledge.
Technology Support Scam: A technology support scam is a fraudulent scheme where scammers impersonate legitimate technical support representatives to trick victims into giving them money, personal information, or access to their devices, often through phone calls, pop-up messages, or emails.
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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