Technology, Media & Our Earth Home
Objectives
- D10.S1.10.01 Analyze how data, surveillance, and automation affect privacy, freedom, and who has power in a society.
- D10.S1.10.02 Evaluate an emerging technology, such as AI or genetic tools, by weighing its promises and risks for humanity and the environment.
- D10.S2.10.01 Apply a fact-checking method to a real claim, tracing evidence and separating fact from interpretation.
- D10.S2.10.02 Analyze who owns the media people consume and how concentrated ownership can shape what is reported and left out.
- D10.S3.10.01 Explain what ecosystem services are, such as pollination, clean water, and soil, and how biodiversity underpins them.
- D10.S3.10.02 Explain what a tipping point is and why crossing one in an ecosystem or climate can be hard to reverse.
- D10.S4.10.01 Evaluate a real sustainability solution, such as a circular economy or a restoration project, for its benefits, limits, and fairness.
- D10.S4.10.02 Explain the idea of a circular economy (designing out waste) and compare it with a "take, make, waste" linear economy.
Essential questions
- How do data, surveillance, and automation affect privacy, freedom, and power, and how do I weigh an emerging technology's promises and risks?
- How do I fact-check a real claim, and who owns the media people consume and how does that shape what is reported?
- What are ecosystem services and tipping points, and how do I evaluate sustainability solutions and the circular economy?
Big ideas
- Data, surveillance, and automation reshape privacy, freedom, and power, and emerging technologies are weighed by their promises and risks for people and the planet.
- A fact-checking method traces evidence and separates fact from interpretation, and concentrated media ownership shapes what is reported and left out.
- Ecosystem services and biodiversity underpin life, tipping points are hard to reverse, and sustainability solutions and the circular economy are weighed for benefits, limits, and fairness.
Lessons
- 1 The Data Trail: What We Leave Behind 55 minutes
- 2 Surveillance, Freedom, and Power 55 minutes
- 3 Automation and Work: Who Gains, Who Loses 55 minutes
- 4 Weighing an Emerging Technology: Promises and Risks 55 minutes
- 5 The Fact-Checking Method: Trace the Evidence 55 minutes
- 6 Fact and Interpretation: A Real Claim, Checked 55 minutes
- 7 Who Owns the News? Media Ownership 55 minutes
- 8 What Gets Reported and What Gets Left Out 55 minutes
- 9 Ecosystem Services: Nature's Free Labor 55 minutes
- 10 Biodiversity: The Foundation Under the Services 55 minutes
- 11 Tipping Points: When Change Becomes Hard to Reverse 55 minutes
- 12 The Circular Economy: Designing Out Waste 55 minutes
- 13 Evaluating a Sustainability Solution: Benefits, Limits, Fairness 55 minutes
- 14 Our Earth Home: Putting It Together 55 minutes
Assessment plan
A data-surveillance-and-power analysis; an emerging-technology evaluation; a fact-check record tracing evidence and separating fact from interpretation; a media ownership analysis; an ecosystem-services and biodiversity explanation; a tipping- point explanation; and a sustainability-solution and circular-economy evaluation, gathered as portfolio artifacts.
Unit 11 — Technology, Media & Our Earth Home
Overview
This unit gathers the outward year into critical judgment and stewardship — neither worship nor fear — building on Grade 9’s algorithmic power, echo chambers, climate, and environmental justice. Learners analyze how data, surveillance, and automation affect privacy, freedom, and who has power in a society, and evaluate an emerging technology, such as AI or genetic tools, by weighing its promises and risks for humanity and the environment. They apply a fact-checking method to a real claim, tracing evidence and separating fact from interpretation, and analyze who owns the media people consume and how concentrated ownership can shape what is reported and left out. They explain what ecosystem services are — pollination, clean water, and soil — and how biodiversity underpins them, and explain what a tipping point is and why crossing one in an ecosystem or climate can be hard to reverse. They evaluate a real sustainability solution, such as a circular economy or a restoration project, for its benefits, limits, and fairness, and explain the idea of a circular economy — designing out waste — and compare it with a take-make-waste linear economy.
Essential questions
- How do data, surveillance, and automation affect privacy, freedom, and power, and how do I weigh an emerging technology’s promises and risks?
- How do I fact-check a real claim, and who owns the media people consume and how does that shape what is reported?
- What are ecosystem services and tipping points, and how do I evaluate sustainability solutions and the circular economy?
Lessons
| Lesson | Title | Standards |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Data Trail: What We Leave Behind | D10.S1.10.01 |
| 2 | Surveillance, Freedom, and Power | D10.S1.10.01 |
| 3 | Automation and Work: Who Gains, Who Loses | D10.S1.10.01 |
| 4 | Weighing an Emerging Technology: Promises and Risks | D10.S1.10.02 |
| 5 | The Fact-Checking Method: Trace the Evidence | D10.S2.10.01 |
| 6 | Fact and Interpretation: A Real Claim, Checked | D10.S2.10.01 |
| 7 | Who Owns the News? Media Ownership | D10.S2.10.02 |
| 8 | What Gets Reported and What Gets Left Out | D10.S2.10.02 |
| 9 | Ecosystem Services: Nature’s Free Labor | D10.S3.10.01 |
| 10 | Biodiversity: The Foundation Under the Services | D10.S3.10.01 |
| 11 | Tipping Points: When Change Becomes Hard to Reverse | D10.S3.10.02 |
| 12 | The Circular Economy: Designing Out Waste | D10.S4.10.02 |
| 13 | Evaluating a Sustainability Solution: Benefits, Limits, Fairness | D10.S4.10.01 |
| 14 | Our Earth Home: Putting It Together | D10.S4.10.01 |