IB Diploma Programme Digital Society HL (first assessment 2024; 2021 guide). This topic equips the internal assessment INQUIRY PROJECT (20% HL): an investigation into the impacts and implications of a chosen digital system for people and communities, submitted as an inquiry process document, a recorded multimedia presentation and a list of references. This handout teaches the inquiry cycle, the documentation discipline and the presentation. All worked examples are original classroom projects.

Must-know for the inquiry project:

The inquiry project 探究项目 runs the full cycle: a focused question (the formula from topic 01: does the homework-chat group change who gets help?), research with diverse and relevant sources 多样相关来源 (the students who use it, the teacher who watches it, the study that measured it), findings on the impacts and implications 影响与意涵 (the impact: help arrives faster for the connected; the implication: help migrates to the connected), and reflection (what the inquiry could not see).

Worked project. The homework-chat inquiry: question above; sources (eight student interviews, the teacher's observation log, one published study on peer help); finding (help accelerates for group members, and quietly reroutes away from non-members); reflection (interviews miss the silent non-members: the next inquiry surveys them).

The inquiry process document is the trail: the question and its focus (why this concept, this content, this context), the sources with claim, perspective and provenance, the decisions (what was cut and why), and the feedback loop (a teacher comment after the draft, and what changed). The discipline: the document is written WHILE the inquiry runs, not reconstructed after: the dated trail is the evidence of inquiry management.

Worked project, continued. The document's decision page: the gaming-chat comparison cut (the school's single case kept the inquiry honest); the feedback loop: the teacher's draft comment (the non-members are your story) and the survey added for them.

The multimedia presentation 多媒体展示 is recorded: the findings shared in multiple modes (spoken argument, a data graphic, a 20-second clip of the chat in use), timed to the limit, every claim tied to a source named on screen. The failure modes: the read-aloud essay (no other mode), the montage (no argument), and the uncited figure. The references 参考文献 list every source with provenance: the list is the presentation's honesty.

Worked project, concluded. The seven-minute presentation: the question (one slide), the three sources with their perspectives (one slide each), the rerouting finding as a two-line flow graphic (help in, help rerouted), the clip, the reflection; the reference list carries all eleven sources, the interviews anonymised.

• The question focused with the formula (question).

• Sources diverse, relevant, read three ways (research).

• The document written while the inquiry runs (document).

• Multiple modes, timed, every claim cited (presentation).

• The worked homework-chat inquiry understood (worked). Boundary notes: the examiner must see the inquiry working: concepts named, sources diverse and evaluated, real-world examples real. All worked examples are original classroom cases.