Unit 1Part 1Programming & Artificial Intelligence — Baccalaureate Year 2

Information Technology and Society

4 lessonsTextbook pages pp. 4–32

Unit 1 asks how information technology reshaped society and what artificial intelligence actually is. It moves from the five stages of IT development and the social changes they brought, to the nested technologies behind AI, to where AI is used in daily life and industry, and finally to the ethical questions its use raises. It is the unit that gives the rest of the course its vocabulary and its habit of following a fact to its consequence for people.

  • Explain the stages of information technology development and how each changed the way people communicate, work, learn and pay.
  • Describe what artificial intelligence is and how machine learning, deep learning and generative AI are positioned within it.
  • Give examples of AI in daily life and industry and explain what each application needs in order to work.
  • Identify ethical issues raised by AI and argue a position on them with evidence.
  • Analyse the impact of one technology on different groups in society and justify a decision.

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Lesson

  1. 1-1Development of Information Technology and Social TransformationTextbook pages pp. 4–11Published
  2. 1-2How AI WorksTextbook pages pp. 12–18Published
  3. 1-3AI in Daily Life and IndustryTextbook pages pp. 19–25Published
  4. 1-4Ethical Issues with AITextbook pages pp. 26–32Published

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