# IB DP Digital Society (SL/HL) - 2-Year Program Sequence

## Course Overview & Framework

* **Course Duration:** 2 Years (Time-agnostic, percentage-based allocation mapping to the 150-hour SL / 240-hour HL frameworks)
* **Prerequisite:** None
* **Group Classification:** Individuals and Societies (Group 3) — Interdisciplinary
* **Core Components:** Concepts (Data, Algorithms, Networks, Change), Concepts in Context (Robots & AI), and Global Challenges
* **Pedagogical Strategy:** Flipped Classroom (Asynchronous conceptual acquisition + In-class collaborative analysis and critical inquiry)

## Assessment Architecture

* **Philosophy:** Critical evaluation of systemic, ethical, and societal impacts of digital interventions. Analytical depth and multi-perspective inquiry over technical syntax.
* **AI Policy:** Permitted and operationalized. AI tools are utilized for trend mapping, policy simulation, bias auditing, and multimedia assembly.
* **Internal Assessment (IA):** Digital Society Inquiry (Analytical report addressing a real-world digital impacts case study + multimedia presentation; zero programming required).

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## YEAR 1: Systems, Interventions & Local Impacts

### Module 1: Data, Information & Systemic Change

* **Time Allocation:** 20% of total course hours
* **IB Syllabus Alignment:** Core Concepts: Data, Information, and Digital Systems; Focus on expression, identity, and security interventions.
* **Assessment Framework:** A Data & Society Case Study (Local or regional focus).
* **Flipped Assignment (Home):** Watch data governance lectures; complete exam-style practice questions on privacy frameworks.
* **Active Learning (In Class):** Hands-on Lab: Research a localized data access issue (e.g., smart city data policies) and evaluate its societal equity metrics using AI analytical assistants.

### Module 2: Algorithms, Automation & AI Foundations

* **Time Allocation:** 20% of total course hours
* **IB Syllabus Alignment:** Core Concepts: Algorithms and AI ecosystems; Focus on decision-making systems and automated workflows.
* **Assessment Framework:** An Algorithm & AI Ethics Analysis Report.
* **Flipped Assignment (Home):** Watch algorithm architecture and automated bias lectures; resolve exam-style prompt matrices on algorithmic transparency.
* **Active Learning (In Class):** Hands-on Lab: Audit a real-world automated profiling or sorting mechanism for baseline demographic bias using AI-assisted statistical mockups.

### Module 3: Digital Networks, Infrastructure & Globalization

* **Time Allocation:** 15% of total course hours
* **IB Syllabus Alignment:** Core Concepts: Networked Societies and Digital Space; Focus on infrastructure disparity, space, time, and globalized access.
* **Assessment Framework:** Global Infrastructure Continuity Report.
* **Flipped Assignment (Home):** Watch digital divide and network topology impact videos; answer conceptual exam-style scenario questions.
* **Active Learning (In Class):** Hands-on Lab: Map the systemic socioeconomic impact of physical versus satellite infrastructure rollouts in developing regions using AI geospatial synthesis tools.

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## YEAR 2: Global Challenges, Advanced Extensions & Examination

### Module 4: Robots, Extended Realities & Emerging Tech (HL Integrated)

* **Time Allocation:** 15% of total course hours (Expanded tracking for HL requirements)
* **IB Syllabus Alignment:** Core Concepts in Context: Robots, AI, and Emerging Realities; Focus on automation substitution and synthetic realities.
* **Assessment Framework:** A Robotics & Automation Socioeconomic Impact Matrix.
* **Flipped Assignment (Home):** Watch workforce automation and deep-learning integration lectures; analyze past exam case studies on labor displacement.
* **Active Learning (In Class):** Hands-on Lab: Track an automation transition within a specific industry sector, mapping downstream societal dependencies and systemic risks with AI mapping tools.

### Module 5: Global Challenges & Policy Interventions

* **Time Allocation:** 15% of total course hours
* **IB Syllabus Alignment:** Global Challenges: Focus on Sustainability, Well-being, Governance, Human Rights, and Geopolitics.
* **Assessment Framework:** Legislative Policy Briefing Document.
* **Flipped Assignment (Home):** Watch lectures on tech-waste recycling systems or cross-border data surveillance laws; draft mock regulatory responses.
* **Active Learning (In Class):** Hands-on Lab: Roleplay international technology regulation panels, using generative AI to pressure-test proposed legal frameworks against multi-stakeholder corporate priorities.

### Module 6: The Internal Assessment (IA) Digital Society Inquiry

* **Time Allocation:** 15% of total course hours (Mandatory internal research hours)
* **IB Syllabus Alignment:** Official Internal Assessment Portfolio (Mandatory SL/HL Component).
* **Assessment Framework:** Final Inquiry Portfolio (3-part structural report + integrated multimedia presentation artifact).
* **Flipped Assignment (Home):** Record presentation voiceovers asynchronously; compile secondary source verification matrices.
* **Active Learning (In Class):** Hands-on Lab: Formulate, refine, and edit the inquiry portfolio using AI solely to polish structural formatting and cross-reference research citations.