Before completing this graded discussion. You should have full understanding of the concepts below, if you don\’t please use the textbook and review them first. • Unemployment, Structural Unemployment, Production, Physical Capital, Labor, Human Capital, Improvements in Technology, Specialization, and Comparative Advantage Instructions and Steps: 1. View the following 3 TED Talks (video presentations). As you watch the videos, take notes of any relevant information. • o The key to growth? Race with the machine\’s | Erik Brynjolfsson • o What will future jobs look like? | Andrew McAfee • o Jobs of the future and how we can prepare for them | Avinash Meetoo 2. Decide which of the 3 TED Talks best responds to this question; • o Is human capital they key to avoid being structurally unemployed? 3. Produce a no more than 200 word Post in which you explain your position. Your post must contain at least the following elements: • o It must state the title and the author of the chosen TED talk. o It must state the reason why believe that TED talk best answers the question. o It must explicitly explain the relationship, connection, or link between the ideas provided in the TED Talk and the concept of Structural Unemployment. PART 2 Instructions • Unemployment, Structural Unemployment, Production, Physical Capital, Labor, Human Capital, Improvements in Technology, Specialization, and Comparative Advantage General Instructions: Write about the importance of the concept you select. Choose one concept from the list above, and write a paper a 350 to 500 word paper (350 words, is the absolute minimum) in which you state a response to the following prompt; “Before participating in the Graded discussion 2, I thought about (one of the concepts from the list) in this way …, now I think … “. You are free to organize and arrange your sentences and paragraphs in any you see fit, but your response MUST at least have the following 5 elements: • It must state and define the concept or idea. • It must explain how you viewed or understood the concept before this class. • It must explain your new way of viewing, or understanding the concept. • It must say the reason why your perspective, or understanding changed. In other words, what did you do, see, or hear as a result of this class that helped transform your opinion. • It must have information, data or facts, that supports the reason for your change. The information, data or facts can be presented in the form of an example, or as part of an explanation. As you produce your response, you should also consider the following: • The implications of the change in perspective. In other words, now that you see this in this way, what are some of the things that will come after? What will you do differently? What follows? Also, analogies and metaphors are a great way to illustrate how one views a concept or an idea.
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