March 18, 2020 Self Driving Cars

Learning Target: I can explain how self driving cars and trucks are going to disrupt the transportation and shipping industries.

Warm Up: Directions: After looking at today's political cartoon students will answer the questions in GoFormative.

Political Cartoon: Self-driving cars texting each other

GoFormative: Self-driving cars texting each other

Opening: Directions: The students will watch video with questions.

Video: Driverless Trucks - NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt_WXIAHD_2017_03_11_18_28_00

Work Session: Directions: The students will watch video with questions, "Kings of the Road." A link to the transcript of this video has been provided. If students want they can follow along by reading the transcript or using it to look back for answers to the questions.

Video: Kings of the Road - 60 Minutes Transcript

Closing: Directions: The students will write a discussion post about self driving.

Discussion Post: Driving Jobs

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Standard(s): MA6.CN.1 Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

a. Identify and build media arts skills that support a variety of career options, higher order thinking, problem-solving, creativity, cultural experiences, and historical events in a global learning context.

MA6.CN.2 Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

a. Identify and describe trends in the media arts and communicate how the issues of time, place, and culture are reflected to increase innovation and quality of work (e.g. bridging cultural differences, interdisciplinary study, differing perspectives).

b. Synthesize the use and impact of digital citizenship to include copyright, plagiarism, citations, resource validation, and social media.

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