Big Tech
Monopolies
Cookies
Predatory Practices
Aspects of Digital Literacy
100

The film The Social Network was based on lawsuits brought against the founder of this tech company. 

Meta/Facebook

100

Which U.S. President was known for his anti-trust policies? 

Theodore Roosevelt

100
  • 1 cup salted butter softened
  • ▢ 1 cup granulated sugar
  • ▢ 1 cup light brown sugar packed
  • ▢ 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
  • ▢ 2 large eggs
  • ▢ 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • ▢ 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ▢ ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • ▢ 1 teaspoon sea salt
  • ▢ 2 cups chocolate chips (14 oz)

Which cookie is this? 

Chocolate chip cookie

100

How does big tech affect the consumer? 

Raising prices, goods shortages, storing and selling customer data to advertisers. 

100

What is information literacy? 

A set of skills and practices that encourage you to think critically about the information you use and produce.

200

This company's name comes from a misspelling. 

Google

200

Define monopoly.

The exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service.

200
  • 1 cup (226 g) unsalted buttersoftened to room temperature
  • ▢ ⅓ cup (70 g) sugar
  • ▢ ⅓ cup (70 g) light brown sugar, tightly packed
  • ▢ 1 large egg yolk
  • ▢ ¾ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ▢ 2 ¼ cup (280 g) all purpose flour
  • ▢ 2 teaspooons cornstarch
  • ▢ ½ teaspoon salt
  • ▢ ½ cup sugar for rolling (optional)
  • ▢ ⅓ cup (105 g) jam or preserves

Which type of cookie is this?

Thumbprint cookie

200

How do the now-standard practices of big tech affect workers? 

Lower wages, restricts worker power and the creation of unions, dampens entrepreneurship of workers with non-competes, allowing for workplace abuse (lack of breaks, racial and gender inequity, workplace accidents). 

200

What is not an aspect of information literacy? 

Knowing how to use a computer 

300

This company's CEO stepped down in 2021 to become Executive Chairman. 

Amazon

300

Name five companies Amazon owns

Whole Foods, Zappos, Audible, Goodreads, IMDb, Ring, AbeBooks, Shopbop, Book Depository and more!

300
  • ▢ 1 ½ cups unsalted butter room temperature
  • ▢ 1 cup granulated sugar
  • ▢ 1 cup packed light brown sugar
  • ▢ 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
  • ▢ 2 large eggs
  • ▢ 3 ¾ cups all-purpose flour spooned and leveled
  • ▢ 2 teaspoons baking soda
  • ▢ 1 ¼ teaspoons sea salt
  • ▢ 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
  • ▢ 8 ounces Heath Bits O’Brickle English Toffee Pieces
  • ▢ 1 cup Kraft Caramel Bits
  • ▢ 1 heaping cup coarsely chopped salted pretzel sticks
  • ▢ flaky sea salt for topping

Which cookie is this? 

"Kitchen Sink" cookie

300

How does big tech affect democracy? 

Dominant corporations use their power to shape public discourse, influence government policy, undermine democratic institutions, and avoid accountability.

300

What kind of resource is the following?

Darling-Hammond, L. (2004). From "Separate but Equal" to "No Child Left Behind": The collision of new standards and old inequalities. In D. Meier & G. Wood (Eds.), Many children left behind: How the No Child Left Behind Act is damaging our children and our schools (pp. 3-32). Boston: Beacon.

A chapter in a book

400

Three of the "Big Five" founders dropped out of college to pursue their start-ups — who are they? 

Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and Steve Wozniak. 

400

How many versions of monopoly are there? (You cannot look this up) 

300+

400


  • 3 cups (375g) all-purpose flour(spooned & leveled)
  • 2 teaspoons cream of tartar*
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 and 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup (16 Tbsp; 226g) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
  • 1 and 1/3 cup (267g) granulated sugar
  • 1 large egg + 1 large egg yolk, at room temperature
  • 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

Topping

  • 1/3 cup (70g) granulated sugar
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Which type of cookie is this? 

Snickerdoodle cookie

400

How does big tech affect small businesses? 

  • Counties where small, locally-owned businesses account for a larger shareof the economy have higher income and job growth and lower poverty rates (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, 2013; Economic Development Quarterly, 2011).
  • Local businesses return a far higher share of their revenue to the local economy—in profits paid to local owners, wages to local workers, procurement from local suppliers—than national chains do (Maine Center for Economic Policy, 2011).
  • Surveys show that independent businesses are declining in most industries due to market concentration and unfair competition from large competitors (Institute for Local Self-Reliance, 2019).
400

What are three examples of primary sources? 

A legal document, a work of art, statistical data, creative writing, audio & video recordings, speeches, surveys, blogs, and news articles. 

500

The largest acquisition in this company's history was Skype, which was purchased for $8.5 billion. 

Microsoft

500

DAILY DOUBLE!

How many acquisitions has Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google had each since their inception? 

You do not have to have a figure for the time period but you do have to have a figure for the # of acquisitions each. You will have two minutes to answer. 

Amazon: 122 acquisitions over 25 years

Apple: 130 acquisitions over 35 years 

Facebook: 97 acquisitions over 18 years

Google: 271 acquisitions over 22 years

500

What are cookies used for?

To track your online activities and information when you're browsing a website. 

500

Please give at least three examples of solutions to the problem of Big Tech's current influence. 

U.S. democratic institutions must aggressively and vigilantly wield a suite of powerful policy tools — like aggressive corporate oversight, antitrust enforcement, anti-corruption measures, financial regulation, international trade arrangements, and a reinvigorated administrative state — to challenge monopolies’ dominance over the U.S.'s economy and democracy. 

500

Why does digital literacy matter? 

Searching and evaluating information sources, identifying structures and systems, understanding creative and scholarly processes, contributing and sharing information/knowledge are all essential to participation in society and civic engagement

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