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，从年轻时开始培养美国网络安全专家是国家的当务之急。然而，来自代表性不足群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影响。代表性不足群体的儿童往往缺乏对STEM领域和努力的认同感，应该被引入与文化相关和发展适当的职业道路。网络安全专业人员采用某些思维习惯来确保持续的安全，这些习惯可以从很小的时候就培养出来，并涉及高度的创造性问题解决，群体中的紧急协商行动，理解混乱的复杂性和其他“21世纪技能”。“这个项目致力于创建一个类似于其他流行的战斗纸牌游戏（如魔术：聚会和口袋妖怪）的收藏纸牌游戏（CCG），用于教授代表性不足的中学生群体（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天性，并向他们介绍该领域不断增长的机会。芝加哥市区的两所K-8学校参与了该项目。该项目涉及探索CCG的潜力，结合当前的网络安全学习进展，开发一个CCG，利用常见的游戏启示，如背景故事和角色识别的方式是文化相关的和发展适当的。获得对多个符号系统之间的相互关系的赞赏是学习的核心。CCG通过将真实的世界网络安全概念和行动映射到中学生的CCG上，为捕捉这种复杂性提供了适当的路径。