Fri 20 Feb 2026 16:40 - 17:00 at Meeting Room 102 - CS4All Chair(s): Wanda Kunkle

The increasing scope, scale, and stakes of cyber attacks motivates a heightened focus on cybersecurity. However, a knowledge gap in the workforce exists in both the technical and non-technical aspects of cybersecurity, creating a major hazard for critical infrastructures, the economy, and society. Closing this gap requires a multi-faceted approach, but of extreme importance is improving the cyber hygiene of the next generation of working professionals. This hard work begins with K-12 education and must span traditional disciplinary boundaries to address the pervasive role computers and networks now play in virtually every job function, role and vertical. We use the NICE Workforce Framework to derive a model of the most foundational cybersecurity concepts key to cyber hygiene. We apply this model within a novel methodology that helps educators strategically integrate adaptive cybersecurity phraseology within any K-12 subject to promote understanding of concepts central to cyber hygiene. Results from early experience in exercising the model and methodology suggest they may be practical and effective tools for enhancing cyber hygiene of K-12 students.

Fri 20 Feb

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15:40 - 17:00
CS4All Papers at Meeting Room 102
Chair(s): Wanda Kunkle pc
15:40
20m
Talk
API Can Code: Laying the Computational Foundations of Data Science in High School ClassroomsK12
Papers
Rotem Israel-Fishelson University of Maryland, David Weintrop University of Maryland
16:00
20m
Talk
“It Wasn’t As Bad As I Thought”: Exploring K-12 Students' Experiences with Real-Time and Pre-Recorded Physiological DataK12
Papers
Vincent Ingram University of Alabama, Myles Lewis University of Alabama, Wesley Junkins University of Alabama, Chris Crawford University of Alabama
16:20
20m
Talk
Psychometric Analysis of a Teacher Readiness and Concerns Scale in K-5 Computer Science EducationK12
Papers
Yiwen Yang The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA, Ziyu Fan University of Texas at Austin, Miriam Jacobson The University of Texas at Austin, Zhuoying Wang The University of Texas at Austin, Judy Lau University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)
16:40
20m
Talk
Words Matter: Integrating Adaptive Cybersecurity Phraseology in K-12 Education Subjects to Improve Cyber HygieneK12
Papers
Timothy Crisp The University of Tulsa Oklahoma Cyber Innovation Institute, John Hale University of Tulsa