Ethical, Cultural & Environmental Impact
Lesson Instructions
Watch and follow the YouTube video, the lesson contains three parts:
Key Information and content - all you need to do here is watch and listen. We recommend you take some notes for this one!
Learning activity - You are to match the different statements for ethical, cultural and environmental issues and then review a case study.
Consolidation - these are past exam question and are for deliberate practice to check your understanding.
Ethical Cultural and Environmental Issues Full Lesson Video.mp4Task - Impact Activity
Task - Exam Questions - Deliberate Practice
Mark Scheme
Question 1 (a)
No mark for identifying if ethical or unethical. Max 3 for justification
Ethical
e.g.
She could ask the author for permission
It may be copyright free
She might give credit to the author
May be for personal / education use only (e.g. to learn from) / not distributed
Unethical
e.g.
Code may be copyrighted
Would need to get permission before using it
Plagiarism
Denies income / publicity to rightful owner
Candidates can discuss both sides of this (e.g. they could get 2 marks from ethical and 1 mark from unethical, or all 3 marks from unethical).
Accept other sensible ethical or unethical issues.
Question 1 (b)
1 mark per bullet
Benefits of not providing physical copies e.g.
Less/no plastic/paper/raw materials used in manufacture // no need for packaging // less waste
Less electrical power needed to manufacture
No petrol used to distribute/collect
…smaller carbon footprint
Fewer disks need to be manufactured
Fewer factory emissions // less pollution
Old versions will be thrown away
Drawbacks of still creating a physical copy (sold online) e.g.
Plastic/paper are used in manufacture
Increase in waste
Old versions will be thrown away
Uses petrol / creates emissions to distribute
Could be read as still physically creating but not putting in shops.
Do not accept more use of computers/electricity to download.