AS 91615 · 4 credits · Internal
Technology implications
Demonstrate understanding of consequences, responsibilities and challenges involved in technology
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This standard asks you to think critically about how technology affects society—both good and bad—and what responsibilities people who create technology have. You need to pick a specific field (like medicine, sports, or gaming) and examine how a technological development has changed over time, what unintended consequences it caused, and how it's changed what we think it means to be human.
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- ·Explain the real consequences—both intended and unintended—of a specific technological development in your chosen field, looking at impacts on people, the environment, and society over time
- ·Discuss what responsibilities technologists and engineers have in developing that technology, and how those responsibilities have changed as technology has evolved
- ·Explain how the technology challenges or changes people's ideas about what being human means
- ·Show connections between past and present impacts when discussing how things have developed over time
- ·For Excellence: predict likely future developments in your field and support those predictions with evidence from past or current examples
You explain the consequences, discuss technologist responsibilities, and show how the technology challenges perceptions of being human—all with basic understanding and some supporting examples.