4.2 The 4th industrial and technologies revolution

• The four industrial revolutions
• Technological advancements of the fourth industrial revolution
• The role of information and communication technology
• Positive and negative impacts of fourth generation technology
• Opportunities for growth and sustainability
• How technology has changed the acquisition of historical information

• trace the technological advancements in the 4th generation
• analyse the role of information and communication technology in the 4th generation
• discuss the impact of technology in the 4th generation
• exploit the opportunities provided by the 4th Industrial revolution for promotion of growth and sustainability in the society
• appreciate the importance of technology in life

“What are the benefits of the 4th generation technologies?”

“How has technology revolutionised the acquisition of historical information?”

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1. Tracing the fourth industrial revolution and the role of ICT
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   The four revolutions in sequence, the technologies that define the fourth, and why ICT underpins all of them.
2. Artificial intelligence and big data
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   What a machine actually does when it "learns", why it is powerful, and why it can be confidently wrong.
3. Connected machines: sensors, robots and printers
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   The internet of things, robotics and 3D printing - and the one loop that lies behind all three.
4. Mobile money and the idea of leapfrogging
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   Why a Kenyan innovation became a world example, what leapfrogging means, and what it did not fix.
5. What the revolution does to work
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   Which tasks disappear, which jobs change their tools, which jobs are new, and what machines remain worst at.
6. The digital divide
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   Who is left out of everything in this sub-strand, why, and what closing the gap actually requires.
7. Staying safe online
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Three kinds of online harm, four things to do about them, and how to design a school platform that does not create new risks.
8. Telling true from false online
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Four questions to ask before sharing, what is genuinely new about forgery, and why anger is the warning sign.
9. Impact, opportunity, and how technology changed history itself
   40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
   The benefits and harms of fourth generation technology, the opportunities for Africa, and how technology transformed the study of the past.