First:
Listen to the news article about kids learning how to hack. You can follow along as it plays and read silently along on their own computer.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/08/13/211669208
Click on Comments above or below this post. After each section of the news article, you are going to write 2 questions (you should end up with 6 total):
- “quiz questions” that are answered in the article, OR
- something they would like to find out more about, OR
- “I wonder” statements.
- “quiz questions” that are answered in the article, OR
Next:
Play the hacking game at this website: http://www.hdtrailerz.com/full-flash/the-hacker
(Read carefully and just follow the directions.)
Then:
Explore the website http://howsecureismypassword.net/ to experiment with strategies to make passwords more secure (but still easy to remember!) by adding capitals, numbers, and symbols. Can you make a password that can be hacked in googol (1 followed by 100 zeroes) years or infinity?