Computational Tools & Connectivity
These are software applications designed to help users collaborate, share information, and communicate.
What are Computational Tools?
This phrase describes the differing access to computing devices and the internet, often based on socioeconomic or geographic factors.
What is the Digital Divide?
This refers to using social media to deliberately harm or harass someone.
What is Cyberbullying?
This type of attack involves tricking users into revealing sensitive information, such as passwords, by posing as a trustworthy entity.
What is Phishing?
This occurs when a computer system reflects existing human prejudices due to flawed training data.
What is Computing Bias?
This term refers to the maximum amount of data that can be sent in a fixed amount of time, often measured in bits per second.
What is Bandwidth?
This is the information that a person leaves behind on the internet, including website visits and social media posts.
What is a Digital Footprint?
This is the act of presenting someone else's work or ideas as your own, which is a major concern with AI generation.
What is Plagiarism?
This type of security feature ensures that only the sender and recipient can read a message.
What is End-to-end Encryption?
This type of tool can "hallucinate" or generate incorrect information, making it essential to verify its output.
What is Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Large Language Models (LLMs)?
This type of network structure provides shared processing, storage, and software over the internet.
What is Cloud Computing?
This method of obtaining services, ideas, or goods by soliciting contributions from a large group of people online
What is Crowdsourcing?
According to the Computer Misuse Act, this is the illegal act of breaking into a computer system.
What is Hacking?
This is the protection of user data from being collected by companies without their knowledge.
What is Privacy?
This is the primary reason for bias in AI, where the system is trained on non-representative or prejudiced information.
What is Training Data?
This device passes information from one network to another, assisting with routing.
What is a Router?
This type of scientific research is conducted by amateur scientists, often using online tools.
What is Citizen Science?
This type of software is free to use but protected by copyright, unlike open-source software.
What is Proprietary Software?
This legislation regulates how personal information is handled and protected by organizations.
What is the Data Protection Act?
This type of algorithmic screening can unfairly disadvantage individuals by automating decisions on job applications.
What is Automated Screening?
This term describes the ability of the internet to keep working even as it grows in size.
What is Scalability?
The shift toward this, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, led to a forced, intuitive use of educational platforms.
What is Digital Transformation?
500: This principle of Distributive Justice requires that everyone has equal access to digital technology and the internet.
What is Fair Distribution of Resources?
This refers to the inclusion of back-up elements in a network in case one part fails.
What is Redundancy?
This, rather than a computer being inherently bad, is usually the source of "algorithmic bias" according to AP Computer Science Principles.
What are Design Choices?