EDU: CySec: A Cybersecurity Collectable Card Game for Children

EDU：CySec：儿童网络安全收藏卡牌游戏

• 批准号: 1623267
• 负责人: Michael Thomas
• 金额: $ 29.66万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-01 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1623267&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EDU; CySec; Cybersecurity; Collectable; Card

We believe it is a national imperative to cultivate American cybersecurity experts from a young age. However, middle school students from underrepresented groups are typically unaware of career opportunities in cybersecurity, and what they entail. Children who are members of underrepresented groups often lack a sense of identification with STEM fields and endeavors and should be introduced to career paths that are culturally relevant and developmentally appropriate. Cybersecurity professionals employ certain habits of mind toward ensuring continuous security which can be cultivated from an early age, and involve a high degree of creative problem solving, emergent negotiated action in groups, making sense of chaotic complexity and other "21st century skills." This project endeavors to create a collectible card game (CCG) similar to other popular battle card games (such as Magic: The Gathering and Pokemon) to be used for teaching underrepresented groups of middle school children (grades 6-8) the habits that have become second nature to cybersecurity professionals and introducing them to growing opportunities in the field. Two K-8 schools in urban Chicago participate in the project. The project involves exploring the potential of CCGs in conjunction with current cybersecurity learning progression to develop a CCG that utilizes common game affordances such as backstory and character identification in ways that are culturally relevant and developmentally appropriate. Garnering an appreciation for the interrelations between multiple sign systems is central to learning. CCGs offer an appropriate path for capturing this complexity by mapping real world cybersecurity concepts and actions onto a CCG for middle school students.

我们认为，将美国网络安全专家从很小的时候开始进行文化是民族的。但是，来自代表性不足团体的中学生通常不知道网络安全的职业机会及其所带来的事业。代表性不足的群体成员的孩子通常缺乏对STEM领域和努力的认同感，应将其引入在文化上相关且在发展上适当的职业道路上。网络安全专业人员利用某些思想习惯来确保可以从很小的时候开始培养的持续安全，并涉及高度的创造性问题，紧急谈判的团体行动，使混乱的复杂性和其他“ 21世纪技能”有意义。这项项目努力创建类似于其他流行的战斗纸牌游戏（例如魔术：聚会和口袋妖怪）的收藏式纸牌游戏（CCG），用于教授代表性不足的中学儿童（6 - 8年级）的习惯，这些习惯已成为网络安全专业人员的第二本质，并介绍了他们在该领域中介绍机会。芝加哥城市的两所K-8学校参加了该项目。该项目涉及探索CCG的潜力以及当前的网络安全学习进步，以开发CCG，该CCG以文化相关且在发达的方式上使用常见游戏（例如背景故事和角色识别），例如背景故事和角色识别。对多个符号系统之间的相互关系表示赞赏对于学习至关重要。 CCGS通过将现实世界的网络安全概念和动作映射到中学生的CCG中，为捕获这种复杂性提供了适当的途径。