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Artificial intelligence and big data
History and Citizenship · Grade 10 · about 40 minutes
What a machine actually does when it "learns", why it is powerful, and why it can be confidently wrong.
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- 7 sections of explanation, worked examples and diagrams
- 1 practice task with hints and worked answers
- A quiz that marks itself as you go
- Your progress kept across every subject you take
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- Tracing the fourth industrial revolution and the role of ICT
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- Connected machines: sensors, robots and printers
- Mobile money and the idea of leapfrogging
- What the revolution does to work
- The digital divide
- Staying safe online
- Telling true from false online
- Impact, opportunity, and how technology changed history itself