capstone course project
Week 7: Course Project - Recommendations Essay
Course Project - Recommendations Essay
This week, you will complete the capstone course project by submitting the recommendations essay you began earlier in the course. The capstone project is intended to further develop develop and assess student achievement of the General Education Common Learning Outcomes (GECLOs). The assignment grading rubric focuses on the six GECLOs as criteria. Read the rubric carefully, and evaluate whether your final essay adequately demonstrates each skill.
To see full details of expectations, please review the Course Project Overview and each of the weekly assignment pages.
Instructions
Briefly, the final essay should
· explore the positive and negative impacts of an emerging technology on individuals and groups from the perspective of a specific ethical theory;
· persuasively address leaders with the power to influence the technology's development and application; and
· provide that audience with practical, concrete recommendations to maximize present and future benefits while minimizing harms for all stakeholders.
To accomplish this, the essay should include the following sections:
· Introduction – Establishing a clear focus frames the argument, establishes the writer's ethos, shows relevance for the intended audience, and presents the writer's overall thesis
· Historical Context - Examining history, including important events, controversies, and actions, provides insights on our current situation
· Current Situation - Looking beyond the shiny marketing helps us see both positive and negative implications for individual and groups of stakeholders.
· Future Implications and Needs - Seeing potential opportunities and threats sets the stage for recommendations.
· Recommendations - Providing practical, insightful, detailed recommendations can help your audience of powerful, profit-oriented influencers address underlying ethical issues, leading to longer term benefits for all stakeholders.
· Conclusion - Capturing key points concisely prepares readers to take action.
Other requirements:
· Researched, ethics-based analysis of the historical, current, and potential future implications of a specific, emerging technology, all supporting practical recommendations for enhancing the technology's benefits while reducing or eliminating negative impacts on people and places
· 1200-1500 words
· Four or more academic-quality sources used and cited to support each section of the essay
· Word document formatted in the current APA style, ideally using the Course Project Template Download Course Project Template Open this document with ReadSpeaker docReader .
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This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeGE.LAS432.A.Critical Thinking Final Paper Recommendations threshold: 26.0 pts |
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30 pts |
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This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeGE.LAS432.B.Communication Final Paper Recommendations threshold: 17.0 pts |
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20 pts |
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This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeGE.LAS432.C.Information Literacy Final Paper Recommendations threshold: 22.0 pts |
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25 pts |
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This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeGE.LAS432.D.Technology Literacy Final Paper Recommendations threshold: 17.0 pts |
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20 pts |
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This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeGE.LAS432.E.Cultural Competence Final Paper Recommendations threshold: 22.0 pts |
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25 pts |
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This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeGE.LAS432.F.Global Awareness and Civic Engagement Final Paper Recommendations threshold: 26.0 pts |
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30 pts |
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Total Points: 150 |
Week 6: Course Project - Recommendations Essay (due Week 7)
Course Project - Recommendations Essay
Over the past several weeks, you have conducted extensive research on your chosen technology to explore its history, current strengths and weaknesses, and its potential opportunities and threats from an ethical and equity perspective. You are becoming a credible expert able to deliver insightful recommendations to powerful change-makers who in turn can influence the technology for the benefit of individuals, societies, cultures, communities, and their environments.
Your task over the next 2 weeks is to synthesize the information you have gathered and develop specific and practical recommendations your audience can use to maximize the technology's benefits and opportunities while minimizing or resolving problems and threats.
Remember that your audience is the owners, developers, regulators and/or other powerful change-makers who directly influence the technology as we see it today and in the future. Individual consumers are not your audience, since you cannot effectively address them with an essay, and they cannot individually implement changes that will have a systemic influence on the technology.
As you prepare your recommendation, reflect on and apply the ethical theory you believe to be most appropriate for the situation. Will you maximize utility, focus on social benefit, follow certain values or moral rules?
Your research-supported recommendations section should provide one or more specific, detailed, practical, ethics-based suggestions for how your audience can best develop, implement, and manage the selected technology. They might include expansions to the technology's abilities, development of new applications, regulations to control the safety or equity of its use, distribution to new people and places, and so on.
Please review the Course Project Overview page in Modules to guide your project completion. As a reminder, the template shared earlier suggested the following outline for your recommendations and conclusion sections:
Recommendation
· First recommended action to resolve or at least mitigate the technology’s current and potential negative impacts on some or all stakeholders and/or to maximize current and potential positive impacts of the technology
· Specific people, organizations, or agencies responsible for various aspects of the action
· Action to be taken, such as specific policy changes, investments, infrastructure projects, or other interventions, including specific tasks, locations, communities
· Details about resources needed, costs, timeline for completion, potential barriers, etc.
· Expected positive outcomes or benefits
· Additional recommended action(s)
· People
· Action
· Details
· Outcomes
Conclusion
· Concise review of history leading to the current situation and potential future impacts
· Summary of recommended action(s) the audience and others should take to address or mitigate problems and maximize benefits
· Closing call to action
· First step
· Vision for the future
No assignment is due this week, but you will share several paragraphs from your recommendations section in this week's Discussion. By collaborating with peers and professor, you can gain insights to help strengthen your argument and improve your recommendations' practicality and potential effectiveness.
Remember to take advantage of the various tutoring options as you prepare your final essay.
Requirements for the final Recommendations Essay due at the end of Week 7:
· Researched, ethics-based analysis of the historical, current, and potential future implications of a specific, emerging technology, all supporting practical recommendations for enhancing the technology's benefits while reducing or eliminating negative impacts on people and places
· 1200-1500 words
· Four or more academic-quality sources used and cited to support each section of the essay
· Word document formatted in the current APA style.