EDU: Collaborative: Branching Interactive Graphic Stories for Cybersecurity Education

网络安全教育分支互动图形故事(BIGSCE)项目的目的是确定如何使用一种名为漫画蜜蜂的分支漫画故事创建技术来向中学生传授网络安全知识。BIGSCE具有潜在的变革性，为开发新的网络安全教与学方法提供了信息：分支的图形故事可以纳入与文化相关的教学方法，因此有可能接触到更广泛和更多样化的学生群体。BIGSCE的目标是探索这项创新技术如何加强网络安全教育，目标如下。1)从中学开始，吸引广泛和多样化的劳动力进入网络安全领域。2)使用专家创作的漫画来评估学习者在网络安全领域的知识、技能和能力。3)通过漫画创作活动加深学生对网络安全挑战和后果的理解。BIGSCE还将有助于对如何有效地使用分支图形故事作为中学生的学习和评估工具的新理解。BIGSCE将在纽约州经济困难的长岛新卡塞尔地区的一个社区中心举行。在为期两周的时间里，学生们将阅读网络安全专家创作的故事，然后在教师的指导下使用Comic-Bee创作自己的网络安全故事。学习将取决于在课堂上观察学生，并评估他们在故事中所做的选择，以及他们创造的故事。学生还将填写前后的问卷，以确定他们的自我效能感和对网络安全职业的兴趣。

The purpose of the Branching Interactive Graphic Stories for Cybersecurity Education (BIGSCE) project is to determine how a technology for creating branching ("choose-your-own-adventure") comic book stories, called Comic-BEE, can be used to teach middle school students about cybersecurity. BIGSCE is potentially transformative, informing the development of new approaches to teaching and learning cybersecurity: branching graphic stories can incorporate culturally relevant pedagogy, and therefore have the potential to reach a broader and more diverse body of students. The goal of BIGSCE is to explore how this innovative technology can enhance cybersecurity education, with the following aims. 1) Attract a broad and diverse workforce to the field of cybersecurity, starting in middle school. 2) Use expert-created comics to evaluate a learner's knowledge, skill, and ability in the area of cybersecurity. 3) Deepen students' understanding of cybersecurity challenges and consequences using a comic creation activity. BIGSCE will also contribute new understanding of how to effectively use branching graphic stories as a learning and assessment tool for middle school students.BIGSCE will be conducted at a community center in an economically-challenging district in New York state--New Cassel of Long Island. Over a 2-week period, students will read stories created by cybersecurity experts, and then create their own stories about cybersecurity using Comic-BEE, guided by instructors. Learning will be determined by observing students in the classroom, and evaluating the choices that they make in the stories, and the stories that they create. Students will also fill out pre- and post- questionnaires determining their sense of self-efficacy and interest in cybersecurity careers.