Beneficial and Harmful Effects
What are Harmful effects of social media?
Reduction of human interaction, Cyber bullying, and job productivity loss.
What is Crowdsourcing?
The practice of obtaining information, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people.
What is Computing bias?
If a computer both unfairly and systematically discriminates against one group in favor of another
How does modern tech benefit underdeveloped third-world countries?
Access to educational materials, such as books, online encyclopedias, nurses can communicate with doctors, cell phones can be used in areas that have no land line telephones.
What are benefits of social media?
Promote businesses, efficient global communications, updates about family events
What popular platform uses crowdsourcing for problem-solving?
Kaggle, it hosts competitions for people can solve problems and create models for various tasks.
What is the type of Computing bias?
Algorithmic Bias
What is the Digital Divide based on?
Demographic characteristic, socioeconomic status, and geographic characteristics
What are some ways computing helped advance us medically?
It has enabled us to do complex medical research, breakthroughs in treatments, and better health management tools.
What is the difference between Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding?
Crowdsourcing involves gathering information or contributions from a large group of people to achieve a common goal while crowdfunding is the practice of funding a project by raising small amounts of money from a large number of people.
What is bias?
Tendencies or inclinations, especially those that are unfair or prejudicial.
How can the Digital Divide effect employment opportunities?
Those without having access to the internet will have a harder time finding jobs.
What kind of threats have increased with the expansion of the internet?
Cybersecurity Threats
How can Crowdsourcing benefit scientific research?
It can benefit it by enabling scientists to gather large sets of data through citizen science projects, analyze the data with help from volunteers, and generate ideas and solutions through open challenges.
What are ways to prevent Computing bias?
Use diverse and representative data sets, Review algorithms for potential biases, Incorporate fairness metrics, Address human bias, Increase diversity in the tech industry.
What are the steps of computational thinking?
Decomposition, Abstraction, Algorithmic thinking, pattern recognition