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Teaching Public/Private Key Encryption to K-12 Students

Explore the importance of teaching Public/Private Key Encryption to K-12 students in the digital age. Learn about outreach programs and resources available, including a high school project. Discover new ways to engage students in computer science education. References provided for further reading.

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Teaching Public/Private Key Encryption to K-12 Students

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  1. Teaching Public/Private Key Encryption to K-12 Students Yvon Feaster CPSC 624

  2. WHY K-12 • Computer Science (CS) is a relatively new discipline • Growth of CS technology has greatly outpaced CS education in the United States (US) • 10th – 12th grade students in SC = 138,910 [1] • 209 students took AP exam for CS [2] • Undergraduate enrollment fluctuating [3]

  3. Outreach Programs • Many universities offer CS outreach programs [4,5,6] • Videos available that demonstrate ways to teach CS concept • CS Unplugged [7] • Public/Private Key Encryption • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJrICB_HvuI

  4. Public/Private Key Pendleton High School Project[8]

  5. References: [1] http://ed.sc.gov/data/student-counts/AverageDailyMembershipandAttendance.cfm [2] www.csta.acm.org/Research/sub/CSTAResearch.html [3] www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ CS_Degree_and_Enrollment_Trends_2010-11.pdf [4] www.cs.purdue.edu/outreach [5] cs.illinois.edu/outreach [6] www.eng.vt.edu/outreach/computerscience [7] www.csunplugged.org [8] Feaster, Y., Segars, L., Wahba, S.K., Hallstrom, J.O. , 2011, Teaching CS Unplugged in the high school (with limited success), In Proceedings of the 16th conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education (ITiCSE’ 11). ACM, http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/19997.1999817

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