ComputerCrimeandCybercrime–TeachersGuide.docVIP

Computer Crime and Cybercrime – Teachers Guide Overview Every year schools are robbed of expensive computer equipment, and viruses are planted on school networks that destroy thousands of files. Most of these crimes are committed by students in the school. In this activity the students are going to learn about cybercrime, why schools must protect themselves from computer thieves and how and why schools must make rules to prevent both. In this activity the class will prepare an Acceptable Usage Policy (AUP) for their class or school. Students can access all the Internet sites for the Interactive Activities by clicking on Students Area in the ECB On-line homepage, then click on: Interactive Activity links - The links to the Internet sites are listed under the names of the activities.- or - Elementary, Junior High, High School. Choose their coursebook. . Level Intermediate and Proficiency (Grades 9-12) Time\ Two to three 45-minute lessons Group Size Pairs or groups Students Prior Knowledge The students ... ... can follow links on the Internet. ... have basic knowledge of computer crime / cybercrimes and viruses. Objectives The students will be able to ... ... use knowledge of complex grammatical structures in order to get a more accurate reading of a text. ... understand the structure and conventions of other types of texts, such as articles, web pages and news broadcasts and their organizational features. ... use a range of appropriate reference sources, such as a spell checker, search engines, a thesaurus. ... cope with information that contains little or no redundancy. ... organize thoughts and ideas on a wide range of topics using discourse markers with accurate use of elaborate language structures to match purpose and audience. ... present information fluently in writing. ... use information from longer oral and written texts that are linguistically more complex and that deal with concepts and topics that are new to them. Procedure In the