DUE DURING YOUR SCHEDULED FINAL EXAM
Your project should consist of two parts, both of them products of a collaborative group project, both of them derived from the same question:
What’s the future of work?
I’ll let you interpret the question broadly--it’s meant to be provocative and open-ended, but also fundamentally relevant. When? Where? For whom? You decide. (Go ahead, open up a Google Doc now…)
The first part of the assignment (worth 5% of your course evaluation) is a polished, practiced, and professional video, 5-10 minutes long, that should be rich, poppin’ smart, and engaging. You can use whatever format, platform, aesthetic you wish. You must create a video about what life lies ahead. It could be a job interview (like the one in Blade Runner! REPLICANT!) set in the future, a conversation between a boss and a potential worker. It could be a protest you stage, a political rally in which you play future candidates for office, making promises to fix the broken world of 2025! It can be a hippety-hop song! But it MUST be online and it MUST be a video. THERE IS NO NECESSARY CONNECTION between your world color (BLUE WORLD!) and this assignment.
But it needs to reflect a group consensus, the group as a whole should participate, and it better be thoughtful and provocative. Place the link at the end of your essay (read on).
The second part of the exercise (due per the Final Exam Schedule) is a collaborative group essay worth 10% of your total evaluation, at least 900 words and no more than 1500 words long. It should reflect, critically and analytically, the first part of the assignment described above.
This is an old-school essay. It should be thoughtful, well-written, crafted, curated. I expect you to use sources, and cite them, but you can use whatever citational strategy you wish. (Actually, the easiest and best is the one used in Wikipedia with simple inserted footnotes, links to articles, page numbers of books, etc…). Look, this isn’t freshman English class. I want something SMART, and I don’t really care about format (says the professional editor). Use Google Docs and learn to develop a document collaboratively. At the end of this document, place a link to your video… House it somewhere else. Do NOT send me the video.
Everyone in the group will receive the same grade (in Russian this is called “collective punishment”). One grade per project. The overall “weight” of this project is pretty low, intentionally. You do this RIGHT and WELL because you’re Honors kids and you care about what your peers and your professors think! You’ll receive a rubric with expectations…
It is no longer in question whether all jobs will be automated, the head of the Institute for New Economic Thinking said Tuesday. The real question rests in when that automation will occur and which sectors of society will be affected sooner than others.