March 27, 2020 Automation
Learning Target: I can understand that automation can make work more efficient, but it can also cause some people to lose their jobs.
Warm Up: Directions: After looking at today's political cartoon students should ask themselves what they know about people losing their jobs to automation.
Political Cartoon: Unemployment
Opening: Directions: The students will watch the video of our opening meeting.
The links show in the video of opening meeting are included below. Students may look at them if they wish. However, students are not required to do anything with these links.
Video: Opening Meeting
Bill Weld ends Republican presidential campaign - CNN
Kemp: Georgia public schools to remain closed through April 24 - Atlanta Journal Constitution
Work Session: Directions: The students will watch video with questions, "Automation."
Video: Automation Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
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).
Early Finishers: