CS898 - Fall 2019 - Technological Solutions to Social Problems of Computers  

Group Projects on the Four Topics
(Cyberbullying, Social Media Improvement, Digital Divide, Digital Literacty)


For each of the four course Topics, students work in groups to complete
a written project and an oral presentation, with the following requirements:

Written project
  - on the order of 8 pages (4000) words
  - each group member must contribute to the content and/or the writing
  - must cover all of: description of proposed solution, defense of the
    proposed solution, background reading: description and analysis, conclusions
  - graded on the basis of: readability, coherence, creativity, depth,
    ability to analyze and to think
  - same grade for all group members

Oral presentation
  - 10 minutes
    - each group member must speak
  - provides an overview of the proposed solution, to be followed by
    discussion with the class
   - results in a weak, good or excellent grade which adjusts the grade on
     the written project downwards or upwards by a small factor or has it
     remain the same

Our intention is to cycle through the permuations of groupings in the
class to have students paired with different groupmates, each time
(as much as this is possible, with the final number of students in the
course).

Groups will be formed by instructor. Groups will be of size 3 or 4,
depending on the size of class (e.g. of size 3 for a class of 9;
of size 4 for a class of 16 (the maximum class size)).