A step-by-step practice frame for the IB Digital Society inquiry project. Investigate a real-world example of a digital system's impact on people, frame a focused inquiry question, analyse it through the course's concepts, content and contexts, and evaluate with referenced sources — with the inquiry criteria and the evidence-based method built in.
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The IB Digital Society inquiry project is the subject's internal assessment: you investigate a real-world example of the impacts and implications of a digital system — data, algorithms, AI, networks, media — for specific people and communities. This examiner-written practice frame walks you through the method step by step: frame a focused inquiry question about a real-world digital impact, ground it in a specific, documented example, gather a range of properly referenced sources as evidence, analyse the issue through the course's concepts, content and contexts, weigh the different perspectives and the range of impacts, and reach a balanced, justified evaluation. Each step is paired with the inquiry criteria, worked good-and-bad examples and the traps that cost marks, and your inquiry exports to DOCX or PDF.
The inquiry project is assessed on the inquiry criteria: how focused and relevant the inquiry question is, how well it is anchored to a specific real-world example, how well a range of well-chosen sources is used as evidence and referenced, how insightfully the analysis applies the course's concepts, content and contexts, how fairly different perspectives and a range of impacts are weighed, and how balanced and well justified the evaluation is. Top-mark inquiries investigate one documented example, analyse impacts on real people through the course framework rather than describing the technology, and support every claim with a referenced source.
The whole inquiry is built around one specific, real, documented example and a focused question about how a digital system affects real people. Treat the example as something to investigate, not to opine on: apply the course's concepts (such as values and ethics, power, change and identity), its content (data, algorithms, AI, networks, media) and its contexts (ethical, social, political, economic, cultural, environmental) to explain the impacts. Weigh more than one perspective, attribute each to a source, and keep returning to the inquiry question.
The Digital Society inquiry tool is free to start: the planning sections are free, and the later sections are a one-time unlock per tool. You sign in to save your work to your own account and sync it across devices. The frame and its guidance are written by experienced IB educators. It is free to start: the planning sections are free, and the later sections are a one-time unlock per tool. Sign in to save your work and sync it across devices.