Help: UNIT 2 ACTIVITY 2

Research Big Data

Required Materials
Word processing software

If you completed the Big Data activity, you thought a little bit about the potential problems of big data and answered one of these questions:

Will we treat people unfairly for crimes they haven’t yet committed?
Will most jobs disappear due to automation?
Can we protect data from people who shouldn’t have it?

Choose one of these topics (you can choose the same one you already attempted to answer or a completely new one) and research it by reading two articles about it. Here are two sources to use to begin your research:

Tween Tribune

Newsela

If you are having a difficult time finding what you want, try searching for “data privacy,” “data breach,” “automation and jobs,” “crime and technology,” or “robots and jobs.”

Include the following as your answer in a word processing document:

Links to the two articles that you read
The question that you chose to answer
Your answer to the question
Three reasons that explain your answer to the question; use evidence from your research to support your opinion, but remember to use your own words!
Ask a friend or family member what they think about the topic you are researching and include a brief summary of their answer.

Answers will vary; answers should include two links, the question, the answer, three reasons for the answer, and evidence from the research (quotes from text or videos, paraphrased facts).