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Fri 17 Mar 2023 16:35 - 17:00 at 715 - Teaching Cybersecurity Chair(s): Chris Mayfield

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cybersecurity are becoming increasingly intertwined, with AI and Machine Learning (AI/ML) being leveraged for cybersecurity, and cybersecurity helping address issues caused by AI. The goal in our exploratory curricular initiative is to dovetail the need to teach these two critical, emerging topics in high school, and create a suite of novel activities, ’AI & Cybersecurity for Teens’ (ACT) that introduces AI/ML in the context of cybersecurity and prepares high school teachers to integrate them in their cybersecurity curricula. Additionally, ACT activities are designed such that teachers (and students) build a deeper understanding of how ML works and how the machine actually “learns”. Such understanding will aid more meaningful interrogation of critical issues such as AI ethics and bias. ACT introduces core ML topics contextualized in cybersecurity topics through a range of programming activities and pre-programmed games in NetsBlox, an easy-to-use block-based programming environment. We conducted 2 pilot workshops with 12 high school cybersecurity teachers focused on ACT activities. Teachers’ feedback was positive and encouraging but also highlighted potential challenges in implementing ACT in the classroom. This paper reports on our approach and activities design, and teachers’ experiences and feedback on integrating AI into high school cybersecurity curricula.

Fri 17 Mar

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15:45 - 17:00
Teaching CybersecurityPapers at 715
Chair(s): Chris Mayfield James Madison University
15:45
25m
Paper
Computing Specializations: Perceptions of AI and Cybersecurity Among CS StudentsIn-Person
Papers
Vidushi Ojha University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Christopher Perdriau University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Brent Lagesse University of Washington Bothell, Colleen M. Lewis University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
DOI
16:10
25m
Paper
Towards Finding the Missing Pieces to Teach Secure Programming Skills to StudentsIn-Person
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Majed Almansoori University of Wisconsin-Madison, Jessica Lam University of California, San Diego, Elias Fang University of California, San Diego, Adalbert Gerald Soosai Raj University of California, San Diego, Rahul Chatterjee University of Wisconsin-Madison
DOI
16:35
25m
Paper
Cybersecurity Education in the Age of AI: Integrating AI Learning into Cybersecurity High School CurriculaK12In-Person
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Shuchi Grover Looking Glass Ventures / Stanford University, Brian Broll Vanderbilt University, Derek Babb University of Nebraska Omaha
DOI