Speaker: Andy Lindsay, Parallax Applications Engineer & Curriculum Developer
This session will provide an overview of how freely available curricula for the ever-popular BBC micro:bit can facilitate interwoven cybersecurity, robotics, and computer science learning experiences that are fun and engaging for students.
The micro:bit gained much of its initial popularity by providing tangible, physical results from student-written scripts. By utilizing the micro:bit module‚ built-in Bluetooth radio in open network mode, micro:bit applications can be linked in ways that allow students to safely experience and examine how attacks on the internet of things devices can affect them. Students then learn how to incorporate basic cryptographic ciphers and other security measures into their scripts to harden their micro:bit networked applications against such attacks.
The micro:bit controlled cyber:bot adds a robotics element to the same sequence of lessons, from stand-alone to open network and hackable to protected. It also opens the door for robotics contests where attacks and defenses are involved.
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