Cyber.org has released a free, full-year Cyber Literacy curriculum for middle school and high school, teaching Python scripting with the micro:bit, focused on coding fundamentals, cybersecurity and AI, and extending into robotics. The cyber:bot tutorials can be woven into the Cyber Literacy curriculum as a live demonstration platform where students can control or hack other student’s robots using the micro:bit’s wireless communication ability.
Cyber Literacy is released as a well-supported curriculum with lesson plans, slides, standards alignment and assessment/answers. The structure of the curriculum is here:
Here’s what you need to do to access the full curriculum:
The only hardware required for the Cyber Literacy tutorials is a single micro:bit module:
The cyber:bot is available in similar packages:
Congratulations to cyber.org on this tremendous release!
Ken Gracey
Parallax Inc.
