9-12S.IC.27: Evaluate computational artifacts with regard to improving their beneficial effects and reducing harmful effects on society.
Students learn how computing innovations have impacted our world in beneficial & harmful ways.
Students learn how AI works & consider impacts on society.
Students practice cropping images to uncover bias underlying the Twitter cropping algorithm.
Recognize difference between random & pseudorandom numbers, & implications of this difference on real world applications.
Understand how private information can be collected & exploited.
Describe how apps collect data.
Students discuss positive & negative impacts of digitalization.
Learn how people use computing to enhance collaboration.
Consider two ways that technology is changing the employment experience.
Consider various ways computing technologies have improved society.
Article exploring environmental impacts of modern computing devices.
Virtual tour, lessons, activities, gamification.
Students create a language model to generate new song lyrics & discuss ethical implications.
Interdisciplinary lesson by Computer History Museum.
9-12S.IC.28: Evaluate how computational innovations that have revolutionized aspects of our culture might evolve.
Learn how AI works and consider impacts on society.
Lesson from Social Justice Computing Guidebook by CSTA Equity Fellows.
Current state of AI & importance of debate in examining the role we want AI to play in our future.
Students design a computer to address a proposed future problem, building a prototype based on their design.Â
9-12S.IC.29: Evaluate the impact of equity, access, and influence on the distribution of computing resources in a global society.
Students explore rates of internet access across the world.
Students learn how AI works and consider its impacts on marginalized communities.
Explain how bandwidth & latency independently affect internet connection, describe issues that contribute to digital divide.
Students practice cropping images to uncover bias underlying the Twitter cropping algorithm.
Explain how the use of computing can raise legal and ethical concerns.
Students explore ethical implications of AI.