Overall Expectations:
A2. Business Technologies
demonstrate an understanding of business-related digital technologies and use them in a way that respects their own and others’ online safety and data security to complete a variety of business-related tasks and projects
Specific Expectations:
Overall Expectations:
A2. Business Technologies
demonstrate an understanding of business-related digital technologies and use them in a way that respects their own and others’ online safety and data security to complete a variety of business-related tasks and projects
Specific Expectations:
Overall Expectations:
A1. Initiating and Planning
demonstrate an understanding of fundamental technological concepts and related skills by initiating and planning projects
Specific Expectations:
A1.1 investigate and describe fundamental technological concepts, and explain how they are relevant to developing products and/or services in a variety of broad-based technology areas
Overall Expectations:
A1. Initiating and Planning
demonstrate an understanding of fundamental technological concepts and related skills by initiating and planning projects
Specific Expectations:
A1.1 apply an understanding of fundamental technological concepts, and evaluate their significance in developing products and/or services in a variety of broad-based technology areas
In this lesson, students learn about algorithms and AI, how they work, how they impact our lives on the internet, and ethical considerations. The lesson begins with a class discussion on algorithms. Students will discuss how AIs reinforce real-world biases, the difficulties in identifying how AIs make decisions, what information algorithms use to make choices, and how that information impacts the types of decisions AIs make. Finally, students will demonstrate their knowledge by researching and designing an infographic on a field that uses algorithms to make decisions. This lesson aims to build critical thinking skills by examining how AI algorithms work, investigating the biases and impacts of AI decision-making, and reflecting on how the implications to their own lives.
Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - Healthy Living Grade 9
Outcome Chart - Nova Scotia - English 10 / English 10 Plus
The Nova Scotia mathematics curriculum includes expectations that incorporate media education topics. In particular, numerous courses have expectations relating to probability, which can be applied to representations of probability in media, and to bias in how data is collected and represented.
The Nova Scotia English language arts curriculum includes expectations that incorporate media education themes. These are found throughout the three strands: Speaking and Listening, Reading and Viewing and Writing and Other Ways of Representing.