Impact of Computing - Recurring Assignment

Summary

Materials

• Day 17 PowerPoint deck
• Impact of a Computing Innovation - Recurring Assignment (already handed out to students on Day 11 of Unit 1)
• Data in Computing Innovations handout
• Data in Computing Innovations handout in Word

Instructional Activities and Classroom Assessments

1. Data Types and Data Collection (20 minutes)
2. Impact of Computing Share (25 minutes)
3. Voting (5 minutes)

Learning Objectives

• IOC-1.A Explain how an effect of a computing innovation can be both beneficial and harmful.
• IOC-1.B Explain how a computing innovation can have an impact beyond its intended purpose. Computational Thinking Practice 5.C Describe the impact of a computing innovation.

Essential Knowledge

• IOC-1.A.1 People create computing innovations.
• IOC-1.A.2 The way people complete tasks often changes to incorporate new computing innovations.
• IOC-1.A.3 Not every effect of a computing innovation is anticipated in advance.
• IOC-1.A.4 A single effect can be viewed as both beneficial and harmful by different people, or even by the same person.
• IOC-1.A.5 Advances in computing have generated and increased creativity in other fields, such as medicine, engineering, communications, and the arts.
• IOC-1.B.1 Computing innovations can be used in ways that their creators had not originally intended:
  • The World Wide Web was originally intended for rapid and easy exchange of information within the scientific community.
  • Targeted advertising is used to help businesses, but it can be misused at both individual and aggregate levels.
  • Machine learning and data mining have enabled innovation in medicine, business, and science, but information discovered in this way has also been used to discriminate against groups of individuals.
• IOC-1.B.2 Some of the ways computing innovations can be used may have a harmful impact on society, the economy, or culture.
• IOC-1.B.3 Responsible programmers try to consider the unintended ways their computing innovations can be used and the potential beneficial and harmful effects of these new uses.
• IOC-1.B.4 It is not possible for a programmer to consider all the ways a computing innovation can be used.
• IOC-1.B.5 Computing innovations have often had unintended beneficial effects by leading to advances in other fields.
• IOC-1.B.6 Rapid sharing of a program or running a program with a large number of users can result in significant impacts beyond the intended purpose or control of the programmer.

Details

1. Data types and data collection (20 minutes)

• Explain what data types are.
• Distinguish between data types and data collection devices.
• For each data type, lead students through the process of identifying one example of each data type and one example of a data collection device for that data type.
• Discuss what an IPOS Structure Chart is and demonstrate how it works by evaluating the different way data is used when you are writing a paper.
• Task students with analyzing the computing innovations they have presented to determine what data types are used in each.
• Students will complete the Data in Computing Innovations page with a partner.
• Ask each group to share the analysis they did for two of their innovations.

2. Impact of computing share (25 minutes)

• Ask students to share the selection for this week and why they selected it.
• Encourage students to discuss the positive, negative, and unintended consequences of the computing innovation as well the data type, an example, and how it is used.

3. Voting (5 minutes)

• When everyone is finished sharing their selection, ask the students to vote on which computing innovation is the most important or noteworthy.
• To collect votes, you can use a Forms survey or other electronic polling program, or simply have students nominate innovations and vote by raising their hands.