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Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Hacking Under the Hood and Into Your Car
With the integration of more and more computerized features into cars, they have become vulnerable to hacking. How this can be done is explained in this interview with two security professionals. Aired Aug. 2, 2013 [13:43 min]
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Cyber Smart! Student Curriculum Lesson: Can You Hack It? [Pdf]
Middle schoolers learn that computers and electronic files are property and explore the reasons for, consequences, and ethics of teen hacking. This ISTE-aligned lesson plan for Grades 6-8 includes student activity and Home Connection...
University of California
University of California, Berkeley: Computer Hacking and Ethics
This article explores the topic of computer hacking and suggests ways of dealing with it in the educational setting.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Spider Bot 2: Hacking Spider's Click 'N Stick
In this video we show you how to hack a Click 'N Stick tap light to make a body for Spider. [3:42]
Crash Course
Crash Course Statistics #30: P Hacking
Moderator discusses P-Hacking or data gone wrong, using the framework of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing. Family Wise Error Rate and Bonferroni Corrections are also explained.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Hack a Greeting Card
Transform an old musical greeting card into a surprise for your friend.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: Hacking and Viruses: Facts
Learn all about hacking. Find out about spam, viruses, how to protect your computer, and how to tell if your computer has been hacked.
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Hack a Box
Can you make a box that only you know how to open and is safe from hackers? In this challenge, students will build a box with the help of this site. Site includes a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their...
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Week of August 1 2016: Trump Says He Was Being 'Sarcastic' in Asking Russia
A day after shocking the political and foreign policy establishments on both sides of the aisle with a call for Russia to hack into Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's email, Republican nominee Donald Trump now says he was...
AsapSCIENCE
Asap Science: Could Your Brain Be Hacked?
Could technology be used to control your brain? Advances in science that may one day enable our brains to be controlled through medical technology are discribed in this video.
Youngzine
Youngzine: Yahoo: A Breach From the Past
Everyday companies are being hacked. A recent hack was done to Yahoo! databases. Find out how easily hackers break into websites and ways we can protect ourselves from online theft.
Other
National Conference of State Legislatures: Computer Crime Statutes
This resource contains a listing by state of laws concerning computer hacking and unauthorized access.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: On Copyright and Hacking Your Phone
Rules issued last week by the US Copyright Office give legal sanction to 'jailbreaking' a cell phone, unlocking it to operate on different carriers, and more.
Science Friday Initiative
Science Friday: Diy Summer Hacks, From the Pool to the Grill
Try your hand at homemade sunscreen, water bottle rockets, and cooler corn.
PBS
Nova Labs: The Secret Lives of Hackers
Hackers may not be who we think they are. In fact, you might be a hacker and not even know it. Learn the true meaning of hacking and some of the many reasons that hackers hack. [3:01]
Other
How to Become a Hacker
This site contains a description of and the issues surrounding hacking.
Other
Great Hackers
This article explores the controversies surrounding and the rationale for computer hacking.
University of Florida
Baldwin Library: Winter Evenings
A scanned copy of the 1851 publication Winter Evenings by Maria Hack, a fiction book for children.
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta Inventors and Inventions: Elias Bjarni
Elias Bjarni "Ole" Olson is credited for using the first coloured ice in a curling game and inventing the standard rubber curling hack. Read his biography and explore some of Olson's other achievements.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Making Sure Facilities & Furniture Support Your Educational Model
This video [15:53] focuses on the facilities and furniture to support your educational model: Four ideas on space: start with desired outcome; bigger, more flexible learning spaces inside leaner, greener schools; stuck in existing space,...
Childnet
Childnet: Online Safety: The a Rule: Video Lesson
This is the third of six video lessons designed to support families with online safety at home using Childnet's SMART Rules. The A Rule interactive video (10:36) focuses on online safety including online advertising and scams and hacks...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Bit Zee Bot: 20. Hacking & Attaching a Digital Recorder
In this video we attach and wire a digital voice recorder to Bit-zee. [6:55]
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Week of August 1 2016: Panetta Calls Trump's Russia Comment 'Inconceivable'
Former CIA Director Leon Panetta blasted Donald Trump Wednesday night from the stage of the Democratic National Convention, calling his recent comment that Russia should "find" Hillary Clinton's emails "irresponsible" and "inconceivable."
Other
Linked in Learning: Lynda: Types of Malware
This video (3:36) discusses the different types of malware, unwanted and malicious software, from the course: Ethical Hacking: The Complete Malware Analysis Process. The transcript is also provided.