Thursday, October 24, 2019

The Purpose of Progress Part 2

We've finished our video about Progress and students have been tasked with creating a project that demonstrates and thoughtful, complex, and thorough understanding of the prompt we have been discussing:

What should be the purpose of innovation and progress?  Support your response

More details will follow about the project, but to start students have been asked to have a short conversation with someone they respect/trust about the topic to gather another perspective.

Some questions to think about:

- What are the positives of progress/innovation?  Can you think of examples?
- What are some negatives progress/innovation?  Can you think of examples?
- What is good progress?  What is bad progress?  Is that the same for everyone?
- Who should benefit from progress?  Who gets to decide what is good or bad progress?
- What are the dangers of letting progress/innovation go without any rules?
- What are the dangers of putting rules around progress/innovation?
- Is progress inevitable?  Can we stop progress from happening?  Can we shape how it grows?
- Do you have any thoughts about solutions to some of the challenges that progress poses?

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