Learning Studio · IB Digital SocietyIndependent class · approximately 70 minutes

Readings → visual notes → inquiry

Four lenses → three sources

Use one TED talk to connect the readings you completed. Then work only with your own IA articles and references to choose a provisional top three for Criterion B.

01TED talk + four lenses
02One study infographic
03Your provisional top three
0–4 minutes

Set up two useful products.

Create or open a Google Doc titled IBDS · Four Lenses + Criterion B · Your Name. You will finish with a one-page study infographic and a documented decision about your own IA sources.

Retrieve before you watch

Without reopening the textbook, write one useful idea from each assigned reading:

  1. Power: who can influence decisions, access, visibility, data or behaviour?
  2. Systems: which human and technical parts interact?
  3. Values & Ethics: which defensible values could conflict?

Keep this first attempt. You can correct or strengthen it after the video.

4–24 minutes

Connect one case through four lenses.

8:27 video

Joy Buolamwini: How to protect your rights in the age of AI

Watch for one specific example, who has power, how the system works and which values or rights are in tension.

Watch the TED talk ↗

TEDAI · October 2023. Captions and the transcript are allowed.

Source caution

Use the talk for what it can support.

Buolamwini is a computer scientist, artist and algorithmic-justice advocate. Her talk gives an expert advocacy perspective and examples. It does not, by itself, establish the effects of every AI system.

Connection notes

  1. Identity: how can an AI or biometric system represent, classify or misrepresent a person?
  2. Power: who can design, deploy, regulate or challenge the system? Who has less power?
  3. Systems: trace one chain: data → model → output → human or institutional decision → consequence. Add the people, rules or organizations involved.
  4. Values & Ethics: which two defensible values or rights are in tension? Explain the conflict.
  5. Record one important claim and the timestamp or example supporting it.
  6. Write one limitation of the talk as evidence.
  7. Make one causal connection between at least two lenses. Do more than list them.
24–35 minutes

Turn your notes into a study infographic.

Use Gemini to organize and visualize your notes. You remain responsible for the facts, wording and final design. This is a study aid, not IA evidence or Criterion B writing.

Open Gemini ↗

Copy this prompt into Gemini

Prompt: Create a one-page study-note infographic using ONLY the notes below. Title it “Identity, Power, Systems and Values & Ethics in AI.” Include four labelled sections: Identity, Power, Systems, and Values & Ethics; one arrowed relationship showing how data, a model, an output and a human decision connect; one value conflict; one source-caution box stating that this TED talk presents an expert advocacy perspective and does not by itself establish every AI system’s effects; and a source line naming Joy Buolamwini, TEDAI, October 2023. Do not add facts or statistics that are not in my notes. If information is missing, leave a placeholder instead of inventing it. My notes: [PASTE YOUR NOTES]
  1. Paste only the notes you created after watching the talk.
  2. Check every claim against your notes and the talk. Fix invented, exaggerated or unclear content.
  3. Improve at least one label, relationship or layout choice yourself.
  4. Export the final infographic as a PNG or PDF.
  5. Under it, write 2–3 sentences explaining one content or design decision you made.

If Gemini returns only text or is unavailable: use its layout plan, or your own, to make the same one-page infographic in Google Slides or Google Docs. The content requirements stay the same.

AI boundary: Gemini may organize your infographic. Do not ask it to select, summarize, rank or justify your IA sources, and do not use it to write Criterion B.
35–55 minutes

Audit the sources you already found.

Open your exact inquiry question, current articles and reference list. Your goal is a source-set decision, not another general source hunt.

Download the top-three worksheet ↓

Build a candidate inventory

List every serious source candidate. Give each area a quick judgment: Strong, Workable or Weak.

TestWhat to ask
Direct relevanceWhat exact part of my inquiry question can this source help answer?
CredibilityWhat expertise, evidence, method, organization or publication process supports its claims? Is it current enough?
Usable evidenceDoes it offer traceable claims, findings, examples or data rather than general background?
PerspectiveWhose position or experience is represented? Which stakeholder is absent?
Later usefulnessCan I use it to explain impacts, implications or tensions in my multimedia analysis?
RiskIs it repetitive, one-sided, vague, outdated, promotional or unsupported?

Mark each candidate KEEP, MAYBE or DROP. A famous source is not automatically useful; the connection to your exact inquiry matters.

I still need more sources

Leave a top-three slot open and name the missing evidence or perspective first. Search for that specific gap using terms from your inquiry question. Add only serious candidates to your inventory. Do not force a weak third source or collect random links.

55–66 minutes

Choose a provisional top three.

Criterion B ultimately needs three clearly separated essential sources. Today you are making and defending a provisional selection; you are not writing polished Criterion B prose.

1 · SourceIdentify it precisely.
2 · CitationMatch the reference list.
3 · ClaimsCapture evidence and perspective.
4 · CredibilityUse expertise, method and currentness.
5 · UsefulnessConnect it to the exact inquiry.

For each provisional source

  1. Record the complete source and citation.
  2. Name its strongest claim, finding or evidence for your inquiry.
  3. Identify the perspective or stakeholder it represents.
  4. Explain what gives it credibility and whether its date matters.
  5. State exactly how it could be used in your later analysis or multimedia presentation.
  6. State what another source must corroborate, qualify, challenge or add.

Test the whole set

  • Do all three make the same argument or represent the same perspective?
  • Is an important stakeholder or consequence missing?
  • Are all three the same source type or from the same kind of organization?
  • Is any source only general background?
  • Together, can they support analysis of impacts, implications and tensions?

Give the set one verdict: STRONG, WORKABLE, REPLACE ONE or REBUILD SOURCE SET.

66–70 minutes

Leave a decision the teacher can see.

  • □ I exported my four-lens infographic and checked it against my own notes.
  • □ My candidate inventory includes the serious IA sources I have already found.
  • □ I selected three provisional sources, or named the exact gap in an open slot.
  • □ I explained usefulness to my inquiry rather than calling a source “good” or “reliable.”
  • □ I recorded one source to keep, one source I may drop or question, and one next action.
Submit or share through the class’s normal channel before leaving. If that channel is unavailable, keep both products in your school Drive and be ready to show the document’s revision history next class.

Your infographic may use Gemini within the boundary above. Your source ranking, credibility judgments, Criterion B notes and explanations must show your own thinking.