SaTC: EDU: Collaborative: Curriculum to Broaden Participation in Cybersecurity for Middle School Teachers and Students (CyberMiSTS)

扩大中学师生网络安全参与的课程（cybermsts）项目将开发和试点暑期讲习班，为中学职业和技术教育（CTE）教师提供他们需要的知识、技能和工具，以积极吸引学生，并使他们接触网络安全概念和职业。从各种来源引进网络安全专业知识，cybermsts课程将对中学生和教师开放，因为它将强调人类在网络安全中的重要作用。教师将向网络安全研究人员学习，参与实践活动，并为自己的课堂定制网络安全课程材料。cybermist课程将侧重于关键概念和大问题，以鼓励广泛和多样化的学生参与。采用设计研究方法开发培训方法，由第一批教师分享他们的经验，并指导第二批教师，项目团队将研究CTE教师需要什么才能在中学课堂上成功地教授网络安全。该项目借鉴了之前SaTC EDU项目的经验教训，结合了Comic-BEE，一个用于创建教育分支网络漫画的新颖在线系统。分支故事提供了探索因果关系的机会。漫画的风格吸引了那些不愿意阅读长篇文章的中学生，并且可以结合文化相关的教学法，有可能吸引更多的学生。夏季工作坊结束后，教师们将在教室里阅读材料，并使用项目组提供的仪器测量学生的学习情况和对网络安全职业的兴趣。在未来，工作坊的材料和课程将作为在线继续教育课程提供。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Curriculum to Broaden Participation in Cybersecurity for Middle School Teachers and Students (CyberMiSTS) project will develop and pilot summer workshops that provide middle school Career and Technical Education (CTE) teachers with the knowledge, skills, and tools they need to actively engage their students and expose them to cybersecurity concepts and careers. Bringing in cybersecurity expertise from a variety of sources, the CyberMiSTS curriculum will be accessible to middle school students and teachers because it will emphasize the important role of humans in cybersecurity. Teachers will learn from cybersecurity researchers, engage in hands-on activities, and customize cybersecurity course materials for their own classrooms. The CyberMiSTS curriculum will focus on key concepts and big questions to encourage participation from a broad and diverse set of students. Using a design research methodology to develop the training approach, with teachers from the first cohort sharing their experiences and mentoring a second cohort, the project team will study what CTE teachers need to be successful teaching cybersecurity in a middle school classroom. The project builds on lessons learned from a previous SaTC EDU project by incorporating Comic-BEE, a novel online system for creating educational, branching web comics. Branching stories provide opportunities to explore cause and effect. The comic style is engaging to middle school students who are disinclined to read long texts, and can incorporate culturally relevant pedagogy with the potential to reach more students. After the summer workshop, teachers will the materials in their classrooms, and measure student learning and interest in cybersecurity careers with instruments provided by the project team. In the future, workshop materials and curriculum will be offered as an online continuing education course.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.