The Future of Work in America
Description:
In the duration of this project we really sought to understand the labor issues of the future, but to do the we have to look back into the past. Naturally we looked a lot into the industrial revaluation with the formation of unions and labor rights. To show our understanding we did an in class timer writing about labor problems during the industrial revaluation (see below). We then studied how the problems of the past might still be applicable in the future such as job loss and homelessness. Afterwards we moved onto creating the final project which is a podcast that talks about labor issues in the present or future and possible solutions through interviews and our own research (see podcast link below). Lastly we started preparing for exhibition which included a seminar prep and a small spiel about the podcast and the project itself. The seminar was an open table discussion about labor issues, in particular how could we change education so that it could better prepare students for future work.
In the duration of this project we really sought to understand the labor issues of the future, but to do the we have to look back into the past. Naturally we looked a lot into the industrial revaluation with the formation of unions and labor rights. To show our understanding we did an in class timer writing about labor problems during the industrial revaluation (see below). We then studied how the problems of the past might still be applicable in the future such as job loss and homelessness. Afterwards we moved onto creating the final project which is a podcast that talks about labor issues in the present or future and possible solutions through interviews and our own research (see podcast link below). Lastly we started preparing for exhibition which included a seminar prep and a small spiel about the podcast and the project itself. The seminar was an open table discussion about labor issues, in particular how could we change education so that it could better prepare students for future work.
In Class Timed Writing
Reflection:
Greatest challenge:
The greatest challenge that I faced in the project was editing because I had no previous experience surrounding this topic. This was challenging because there were a few interviews that had really big pauses or "ummmm's" which overextended the length of the podcast. But the other problem was that there was an interview that the interviewee was significantly louder than the rest of the podcast which wasn't as easy as it seamed because if I put that sound file at the right volume it would sound suppressed. To overcome these challenges logically I looked it up on google and found multiple YouTube videos of how to solve this particular problem.
What would I do differently:
I would've gone back into the podcast and make a backtrack for the podcast, acting as a sort of tone-setter to get the listener to really understand the time and place I might be talking about. I would do this because we have entire minutes in the podcast where there is nothing but a single audio file for an interview. Also, there is a section that we are talking about factory work and there are the corresponding factory sounds and I feel that is we had music leading up to his it would've been a much smoother transition. I feel that this would've upped the quality of my entire podcast to make it flow and sound significantly less chopped up.
Greatest insight:
My greatest insight about this project is probably the fact that the workplace and the job market has changed so much and will change a lot more in the future. One topic that really captured my interest was that completely functional AI is on the verge of existence and will dominate the low pay job market. I think that this is particularly interesting because that is a significant amount of jobs in America and will displace a lot of people and will leave them jobless because they don't have a high enough education to get other high paying jobs. The reason I find this interesting because we are the ones who invented AI in the first place and if not treated properly will come back to bite us.
Most proud of:
In this project, I am particularly proud of the number of interesting opinions and qualitative facts that we were able to uncover in both of our interviews as well as our individual research. This is because there was one interview that we did that made me step back and rethink my opinion about automation. This really made me realize how controversial the topic of globalization and how it benefits us through cheaper materials and the ability to access information about any subject at any time. This controversy made me rethink my entire opinion about automation and made the podcast really interesting and more than just sited facts.
How as I grew as a student:
I feel that the area I grew the most in was organized leadership, and what I mean by this is keeping all of the tasks organized so we could complete them as easily and as efficiently as possible. An example of this is when we were doing interviews we needed to make sure that we were making progress gathering interviews as well as processing them in the editing software. This also helped when we were doing the final composition of our podcast and needed to make sure that we had everything completed and refined. I had to learn this skill extremely quickly because I had realized that there was a ton of individual moving parts to this project and was particularly challenging because we also wanted to get a head start which made things a bit messier than it should've been.
Greatest challenge:
The greatest challenge that I faced in the project was editing because I had no previous experience surrounding this topic. This was challenging because there were a few interviews that had really big pauses or "ummmm's" which overextended the length of the podcast. But the other problem was that there was an interview that the interviewee was significantly louder than the rest of the podcast which wasn't as easy as it seamed because if I put that sound file at the right volume it would sound suppressed. To overcome these challenges logically I looked it up on google and found multiple YouTube videos of how to solve this particular problem.
What would I do differently:
I would've gone back into the podcast and make a backtrack for the podcast, acting as a sort of tone-setter to get the listener to really understand the time and place I might be talking about. I would do this because we have entire minutes in the podcast where there is nothing but a single audio file for an interview. Also, there is a section that we are talking about factory work and there are the corresponding factory sounds and I feel that is we had music leading up to his it would've been a much smoother transition. I feel that this would've upped the quality of my entire podcast to make it flow and sound significantly less chopped up.
Greatest insight:
My greatest insight about this project is probably the fact that the workplace and the job market has changed so much and will change a lot more in the future. One topic that really captured my interest was that completely functional AI is on the verge of existence and will dominate the low pay job market. I think that this is particularly interesting because that is a significant amount of jobs in America and will displace a lot of people and will leave them jobless because they don't have a high enough education to get other high paying jobs. The reason I find this interesting because we are the ones who invented AI in the first place and if not treated properly will come back to bite us.
Most proud of:
In this project, I am particularly proud of the number of interesting opinions and qualitative facts that we were able to uncover in both of our interviews as well as our individual research. This is because there was one interview that we did that made me step back and rethink my opinion about automation. This really made me realize how controversial the topic of globalization and how it benefits us through cheaper materials and the ability to access information about any subject at any time. This controversy made me rethink my entire opinion about automation and made the podcast really interesting and more than just sited facts.
How as I grew as a student:
I feel that the area I grew the most in was organized leadership, and what I mean by this is keeping all of the tasks organized so we could complete them as easily and as efficiently as possible. An example of this is when we were doing interviews we needed to make sure that we were making progress gathering interviews as well as processing them in the editing software. This also helped when we were doing the final composition of our podcast and needed to make sure that we had everything completed and refined. I had to learn this skill extremely quickly because I had realized that there was a ton of individual moving parts to this project and was particularly challenging because we also wanted to get a head start which made things a bit messier than it should've been.
Listen to the podcast here!
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