Dearborn Educational Curriculum

Design projects that combine hardware and software components to collect and exchange data.

Systematically identify and fix problems with computing devices and their components.

Represent data using multiple encoding schemes.

Collect data using computational tools and transform the data to make it more useful and reliable.

Refine computational models based on the data they have generated.

Compare tradeoffs associated with computing technologies that affect people's everyday activities and career options.

Discuss issues of bias and accessibility in the design of existing technologies.

Collaborate with many contributors through strategies such as crowdsourcing or surveys when creating a computational artifact.

Describe tradeoffs between allowing information to be public and keeping information private and secure.

Model the role of protocols in transmitting data across networks and the Internet.