Prison Education Program

How The Internet Works

(4.55 stars) · 744 learner reviews

How The Internet Works teaches the fundamental concepts of internet technology. Level’s internet technology training for people in prison covers the evolution of the first computer networks, the importance of breaking digital information into small packets and how information is sent from one computer to another. Additionally, this guide provides helpful information about staying safe online and getting a job in the field of internet technology after release from prison.

Enrollment fee is a one-time payment that includes this guide and Level's entire prison education program including all educational and job training guides and all certificates. No hidden monthly payments or recurring fees. The enrollment fee includes shipping.

What they'll learn:

  • Understand the core concepts of packets, protocols and decentralization
  • Learn how modern computer networks evolved from early telephone switchboards
  • Begin to explore the four primary “layers” of the internet
  • Understand how information can get from one computer to another halfway around the world

Guide includes:

Job training
Technical knowledge
Career exploration
Quiz

Schedule

Self-guided - learners complete at their own pace

Guide length

44 pages

Time to complete

~10 hours

What is Level?

Level is a popular, independent, nonprofit prison education program that offers education, career training and personal development for people in prison and connects with family members and supporters on the outside. Our unique approach can reach nearly any person at any prison, even those in high security or solitary confinement. 7,050 people in prison have spent 101,270 hours using the Level program inside 1,067 prisons across the country.

Testimonials for this guide:

I'm in a single man cell 24 hours a day, seven days a week - indefinite solitary confinement until I go home. Currently I'm Florida's one, only and worst super-max prison in the state. They provide us zero educational assistance. But through Level and its guides, I've begun a journey of meeting educational goals.

- Jason, in prison in Florida

You all at Level relate to the incarcerated's desires and needs to still be productive citizens in society. You realize we are still human beings with families and friends, too. We still strive to return better and renewed! Thank you! I really appreciate this guide and all that you are doing.

- Joseph, in prison in Texas

I cannot thank Level enough for these guides and the knowledge that they contain. All of you all there at Level have given me the opportunity to show the initiative that I am putting into my rehabilitative efforts with each one of these certificates. So, from the four corners of my heart... I say thank you.

- Christopher, in prison in Illinois