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AP Computer Science Principles in Python

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Lesson 12.1 The Effects of the Internet

Description

In this Practice Performance Task students will choose an innovation that was enabled by the Internet and explore the positive and negative impacts of their innovation on society, economy, and culture. Students will develop a computational artifact that illustrates, represents, or explains the innovation’s purpose, its function, or its effect.

Objective

Students will be able to…

  • Communicate the beneficial and harmful effects of a computing innovation
  • Develop a computational artifact to represent a computing innovation of choice
  • Cite relevant and credible sources in their arguments
  • Gain practice for the AP Explore Performance Task

Enduring Understandings

This lesson builds toward the following Enduring Understandings (EUs) and Learning Objectives (LOs). Students should understand that…

  • EU 1.1 Creative development can be an essential process for creating computational artifacts. (LO 1.1.1)
  • EU 1.2 Computing enables people to use creative development processes to create computational artifacts for creative expression or to solve a problem. (LOs 1.2.1, 1.2.2)
  • EU 6.1 The Internet is a network of autonomous systems. (LO 6.1.1)
  • EU 7.1 Computing enhances communication, interaction, and cognition. (LO 7.1.1)
  • EU 7.5 An investigative process is aided by effective organization and selection of resources. Appropriate technologies and tools facilitate the accessing of information and enable the ability to evaluate the credibility of sources. (LOs 7.5.1, 7.5.2)

Activities

These are all the activities included in the lesson

12.1.1 Topic Brainstorm
12.1.2 Gathering Resources
12.1.3 Create Your Artifact
12.1.4 Written Responses