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J277 1.6.1 Extended-response workshop
Part 4 of 4 · J277 1.6 · Digital impacts: Depth
A workshop leading to one genuine eight-mark discussion, with optional improvement after feedback.
Students will:
- develop a contextual point and counterpoint
- prepare a focused ethical concern and data-handling action
- write an independent discussion of ethical, privacy and legal issues
- justify a recommendation using competing effects
- improve one paragraph after feedback
Inside: 5 text sections, 1 multiple-choice activity, 6 written answers. 19 marks. Suggested teaching time: 45–65 minutes. 1 diagram. The total includes an optional two-mark paragraph repair.
Includes a teacher guide with suggested sections, timings and common misconceptions.
Series: J277 1.6 · Digital impacts: Depth, part 4 of 4.
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Extended-response workshop
An eight-mark discussion needs accurate ideas linked to the situation. Explain benefits and drawbacks, cover the areas named in the question and justify a recommendation when asked. A long list of facts is not enough.
A question asks you to discuss a proposal and recommend whether it should go ahead. Which approach best meets the command?
- AList the names of several laws
- BGive only the benefits because they support a choice
- CDevelop relevant benefits and drawbacks, then use them to justify a decision
- DWrite the longest possible answer without referring to the proposal
1. Practise developing a point
An event organiser introduces online booking. Compare these answers:
It is more convenient.
People can book outside the office's opening hours, so someone working during the day can still reserve a place.
The second answer explains what changes and who benefits. The next question uses a new situation.
A community shop adds an online ordering service. Improve the statement 'It is good for customers' by explaining one specific benefit and its consequence.
Students type their answer here.
A community shop adds online ordering but keeps its staffed counter. Explain one reason why keeping the counter could matter to some customers.
Students type their answer here.
2. Prepare one point at a time
The following tasks use a leisure centre's proposed entry app. Use the stated facts; do not invent survey figures or assume every member has the same needs.
A leisure centre proposes an app for entry. It would let members book and enter without queuing. The app records each named member's visits and uses them to target offers. Detailed histories would be kept indefinitely. Members who cannot use the app would lose their usual staffed entry route.
Explain one ethical concern for members who cannot use the app.
Students type their answer here.
A leisure centre proposes an app for entry. It would let members book and enter without queuing. The app records each named member's visits and uses them to target offers. Detailed histories would be kept indefinitely. Members who cannot use the app would lose their usual staffed entry route.
Explain one change to the handling of visit histories that would help meet a data-protection responsibility.
Students type their answer here.
3. Write independently
Use paragraphs or developed bullet points. Your recommendation should follow from your reasons. You do not need to copy a set structure or write a fixed number of words.
A leisure centre proposes an app for entry. It would let members book and enter without queuing. The app records each named member's visits and uses them to target offers. Detailed histories would be kept indefinitely. Members who cannot use the app would lose their usual staffed entry route.
Discuss the positive and negative impacts of this proposal. Include ethical, privacy and legal issues, and give a justified recommendation.
Students type their answer here.
4. Improve after feedback
Complete the final activity after you or your teacher has reviewed the discussion. Choose a paragraph whose computing idea, application or consequence could be clearer.
A leisure centre proposes an app for entry. It would let members book and enter without queuing. The app records each named member's visits and uses them to target offers. Detailed histories would be kept indefinitely. Members who cannot use the app would lose their usual staffed entry route.
Write one improved paragraph explaining a benefit or drawback of this proposal. Include enough context for the paragraph to make sense on its own.
Students type their answer here.