Automated Teller Machines

Good or Bad?
 What is an ATM?
• Research and then describe how an ATM
works – you do not need to be too
technical. Imagine your audience is a Year
7 class.
What are the benefits?
What are the issues?
 Linking to Syllabus
Reliability
Integrity
• Unemployment Security
• Alienation and customer Privacy and Anonymity
service Authenticity
• Crime Intellectual Property
Equality of Access
• Loss of Privacy
Control
• Errors Globalization and Cultural
Diversity
Policies and Standards
People and Machines
 Disadvantages
• Unemployment
• Alienation and customer service
• Crime
• Loss of Privacy
• Errors
 Unemployment
This issue relates However,
to……. • Increase in
because employment in
computer industry
Decline in employment
 Alienation and customer service

This issue relates However,

to…….
because

…removes human
contact
 Crime
This issue relates However,
to…….
because
 Loss of Privacy
This issue relates However,
to…….
because
 Errors
This issue relates However,
to…….
because
 Additional Evidence
• Here’s where you can add any other
issues that you have found.
 Weigh Up
• Now weigh up all the issues and decide…
are ATMs good or bad.
• You could use terminology such as:
• Despite the fact that…..
• Although the issues of ….., the main overriding
advantage…..
– Overall…..