Capstone: Computing and Its Consequences: Computer Science Unit 8, Grade 10 (Letters & Devotion)

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Capstone: Computing and Its Consequences is Unit 8 of Computer Science Principles: Computation, Data, and Society (Part 2) (Grade 10), the Letters & Devotion Computer Science course, complete in one printable PDF: 9 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 86 pages.

• The distinction between disparate impact (outcome evidence) and disparate treatment (intent evidence) as two different classes of claim requiring two different kinds of evidence
• The three-way evidentiary test (bug vs. disparate impact vs. disparate treatment) applied to an unfamiliar case
• A function-based data-processing pipeline that computes a disaggregated summary statistic from a list of records
• Adaptation of a taught function-based aggregation pattern to a structurally similar but surface-different dataset
• The relationship between unequal computing/network access (digital divide) and sampling bias in who is represented in a dataset
• Obligations imposed by specific open-source software licenses on reuse and redistribution
• The distinction between spec-conformance (‘does it work’) and social-impact justification (‘should it exist this way’) as applied to one specific, named real-world system
• Cumulative course vocabulary applied in context to a novel case rather than recited in definition form
• The digital-divide-to-sampling-bias mechanism applied to a domain, dataset shape, and framing not used anywhere in instruction

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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