Resources that help students
be aware of the impacts that technologies have on society

Be aware of the positive and negative impacts that technologies have on society 

Be aware of the ways in which technologies are--or are not--regulated, and how this contributes to their impacts on individuals and society 

Common Sense Education:

• "Risk Check for New Tech" lesson 

  • "Debating the Privacy Line" lesson 

  • "What Is AI?" lesson

  • "How Is AI Trained?" lesson

  • "How AI Bias Impacts Our Lives" lesson

  • "AI Algorithms: How Well Do They Know You?" lesson

  • Collection of other AI resources

Other resources:

• CIVIX Explains "Who decides what I see online?" video E

• Vox's "We're in a new Gilded Age. What did we learn from the last one?" article 

• Netflix's "The Social Dilemma" film (subscription required)

• The AI Education Project's "Teach AI" lessons

• News Literacy Project's collection of articles about AI