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The Daily OrangeSU helps fund high school course on cyber security
By Peter de Montmollin
Posted: 3/27/06, 11:34 PM EST Section: News
Jabbour said the project is using his curriculum to design a program to prepare and certify local high school instructors to teach the course.
Local teachers may sign up for the program designed by Dan Pease, an SU professor of computer and information science who is a consultant at the lab, this summer, Edmonds said.
The Air Force lab will initially help Pease with the program, Edmonds said. However, the lab will give all control of the program to Pease and to Project Advance after this summer.
When SU offers the cyber security course through Project Advance next school year, high school students who pass the course will receive three SU credits in computer science and engineering.
Jabbour said he has discovered problems with teaching cyber security while testing the pilot course at RCS.
"Cyber security is not intuitive," he said. "You can have the smartest students and the most highly trained teachers, but if they have not dealt with cyber security, the concepts (in the course) will not be easy."
The lecture hours and lab hours were restructured, Jabbour said. Cyber security practitioners were also brought into the classroom to tell students about what they did in the lab and why it is important.
"These measures gradually started to hit home," Jabbour said.
Local teachers may sign up for the program designed by Dan Pease, an SU professor of computer and information science who is a consultant at the lab, this summer, Edmonds said.
The Air Force lab will initially help Pease with the program, Edmonds said. However, the lab will give all control of the program to Pease and to Project Advance after this summer.
When SU offers the cyber security course through Project Advance next school year, high school students who pass the course will receive three SU credits in computer science and engineering.
Jabbour said he has discovered problems with teaching cyber security while testing the pilot course at RCS.
"Cyber security is not intuitive," he said. "You can have the smartest students and the most highly trained teachers, but if they have not dealt with cyber security, the concepts (in the course) will not be easy."
The lecture hours and lab hours were restructured, Jabbour said. Cyber security practitioners were also brought into the classroom to tell students about what they did in the lab and why it is important.
"These measures gradually started to hit home," Jabbour said.
