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Robots and Automation - Wave Lesson Project - Lesson Template

This document provides an overview of a lesson plan about automation for a CAP research seminar. The objectives are for students to connect automation to concepts of education, work, economy, self, and life. Essential questions guide students to consider how automation affects the purpose of education and jobs, and to examine the implications of automation for different industries and the overall economy. The lesson plan involves an activity using musical chairs to demonstrate jobs being automated away and discussions about the current and future states of automation technology, as well as its philosophical implications.

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Robots and Automation - Wave Lesson Project - Lesson Template

This document provides an overview of a lesson plan about automation for a CAP research seminar. The objectives are for students to connect automation to concepts of education, work, economy, self, and life. Essential questions guide students to consider how automation affects the purpose of education and jobs, and to examine the implications of automation for different industries and the overall economy. The lesson plan involves an activity using musical chairs to demonstrate jobs being automated away and discussions about the current and future states of automation technology, as well as its philosophical implications.

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CAP Research Seminar

The Wave Lesson Project


Shindel
Emma Rosenberg, Che Moorhead, Bridget Griffith, Dana Graham
Lesson Plan Template

Objectives--​What will students be able to do by the end of the lesson?


1. Students will be able to use conceptual thinking to connect automation to education, work and
economy, concept of self, and concept of life.
2. Students will be able to recognize the current level of automation technologies as well as the
direction that automation is headed.

Essential Questions​--List some of the questions most important questions that will guide the learning.
1. How does automation affect one’s concept of what the purpose of education and job preparation
is? Subsequently, how does this affect one’s concept of what life constitutes? What are life’s
stages and purposes?
2. What are the physical implications of automations? What new industries will prevail? Overall,
what will automation mean for the economy?

Resources needed--​List of readings, artifacts, technologies, videos...


1. Prepared slideshow
2. Cards for musical chairs game

Activities

Activity Description Time Allotted

Musical chairs Musical chairs with Sticky notes on the chairs 15 minutes
And then take away chairs and certain jobs
Take multiple chairs (jobs) for each new technology
introduced

Summary of Where We Talk about what technology is available now 7 min


Are Now Talk about what technology will be available soon
Timeline

Where we are going? Technologies that are in the process of being created, 4 min
theories about what technologies could come from that;
ripples through industry

Lifeboats and Larger Discuss philosophical implications for purpose, concept 9 min
Picture of self, concept of life

Discussion What will we do without jobs? How will find our 10 min
purpose? If you weren’t working for the end goal of a
job what would you do?
Lead with such questions to facilitate discussion

Enduring understandings--​What do you hope the students remember for a long time from now?
1. Automation on a mass scale is most likely inevitable, but if it doesn’t have to occur.
2. There is no limit to what jobs and aspects of our lives will be affected by automation.

Ways for students to extend the learning--​List some ways students can continue to learn about what
was taught during the lesson. This could be people to follow, things to read, watch, discuss...
1. Research specific directions automation is taking, such as how self-driving cars will impact the
transportation industry.
2. Read:
a. “A World Without Work” by Derek Thompson
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/07/world-without-work/395294/
b. “Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace
Automation,” by David Autor ​https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.29.3.3

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