Feke Online - A Message to the Future

Learning goals

During A Message to the Future, you are going to develop your reading and writing skills by reading fiction and non-fiction about AI and studying effective writing strategies. You will also discuss the possible progress or peril that comes with AI, specialising yourself in an area related to your programme.

The main skills that you will improve are reading and writing. You will show your skills by:

Reading comprehension tests (non graded)
Writing an essay

Lessons

Learning Goal: The Essay A Message to the Future

You have been invited to participate at a prestigious international conference - A Message to the Future: A New Dark Age or a Bright Future?, exploring the future of artificial intelligence. This conference gathers thinkers, innovators, and students to discuss the impact of AI on society by writing essays for publication.

As part of this initiative, you will contribute to a time capsule that will be unearthed decades from now. Among the chosen artifacts will be your essays, capturing today's hopes, warnings, and visions for the future. Those who discover the capsule will look to your words for insight; will they see predictions of a utopia, empowered by AI or a cautionary tale of humanity’s missteps?

When planning your essay, you will have to choose a specific area, perhaps related to your study programme, and create a thesis question. For example:

Arts & Humanities
Commerce & Business
Social Sciences
Natural Sciences
Technology

You will also need to research your thesis question and bring a reliable source with you to the test. You are allowed to summarise your reading into 200 words which you may bring with you when writing the essay. The summit will also distribute material - a selection of articles from international magazines and research – to be read and used alongside your material. After reading the material, decide on ideas, claims, statements, examples or arguments that you wish to discuss in your essay.

Structurally you are expected to present a thesis question, summarise your sources, analyse their implications and finally draw a conclusion. You must refer to at least two sources to receive a passing grade.

Word count: 400-700
Time: 80-120 minutes
Style: Formal. Ensure that you have checked what you have written with regard to appropriateness of language, content and structure.

As inspiration, you may want to consider the following thesis questions:

How does AI challenge or enhance human creativity?
Will AI replace human workers or create new job opportunities?
Does AI reinforce or reduce social inequalities?
Should AI be allowed to make life-and-death decisions in medicine?
Should AI-driven facial recognition collect data to improve safety in society?

Grammar: participle clauses

Participle clauses are a way to make sentences more concise and sophisticated by reducing clauses while maintaining meaning.

Learning helps you: write more concise and condensed sentences.

Prefixes and suffixes grammar practice

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