Page 62 - The Ontario Curriculum Grades 10 to 12 Computer Studies - Revised (2008)

Grade 12, University Preparation
d1. assess strategies and initiatives that promote environmental stewardship with respect to the use of computers and related technologies;
d2. analyse ethical issues and propose strategies to encourage ethical practices related to the use of computers;
d3. analyse the impact of emerging computer technologies on society and the economy;
d4. research and report on different areas of research in computer science, and careers related to computer science.
d1. Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability
d3. Emerging technologies and Society
d4. Exploring computer Science
d2. Ethical Practices
d. topiCs in CompUter sCienCe OVERALL EXPECTATIONS
By the end of this course, students will:
thE ontario curriculum, GradES 10 –12 | Computer Studies
SPECIFIC EXPECTATIONS
By the end of this course, students will:
d1.1 outline strategies to reduce the impact of computers and related technologies on the environment (e.g., reduce, reuse, and recycle; turn computers and monitors off at end of day; participate in printer cartridge recycling) and on human health (e.g. ergonomic standards);
d1.2 investigate and report on governmental and community initiatives that encourage environ- mental stewardship and promote programs and practices that support sustainability (e.g., local community recycling centres, private companies that refurbish computers, printer cartridge recy- cling programs).
By the end of this course, students will:
d2.1 investigate and analyse an ethical issue related to the use of computers (e.g., sharing passwords, music and video file downloading, software piracy, keystroke logging, phishing, cyberbullying);
d2.2 describe the essential elements of a code of ethics for computer programmers (e.g., ACM [Association for Computing Machinery] and IEEE [Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers] standards) and explain why there is a need for such a code (e.g., plagiarism, backdoors, viruses, spyware, logic bombs);
d2.3 outline and apply strategies to encourage ethical computing practices at home, at school, and at work.
By the end of this course, students will:
d3.1 explain the impact of a variety of emerging technologies on various members of society and on societies and cultures around the world and on the economy;
d3.2 investigate an emerging technology and produce a report using an appropriate format (e.g., technical report, website, presentation software, video).
By the end of this course, students will:
d4.1 report on some areas of collaborative research between computer science and other fields (e.g., bioinformatics, geology, econom- ics, linguistics, health informatics, climatology, sociology, art), on the basis of information found in industry publications (e.g., from the ACM and IEEE);
d4.2 investigate a topic in theoretical computer science (e.g., cryptography, graph theory, logic, computability theory, attribute grammar, autom- ata theory, data mining, artificial intelligence, robotics, computer vision, image processing), and produce a report, using an appropriate format (e.g., website, presentation software, video);
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