Future Technologies Consequences for Life and Career

This ready-to-teach lesson helps students derive personal and career consequences from current information technology developments, building directly on prior learning about Artificial Intelligence, Cyber-Physical Systems, and Blockchain. It is designed for upper secondary Computer Science / Informatics courses and fits a 45-minute lesson.

Students begin with structured retrieval of key benefits and risks of AI, CPS, and blockchain, then move beyond technical understanding to analyse real consequences for their own behaviour, decision-making and future skill development. The lesson explicitly teaches the difference between describing a technology and deriving consequences from it, supporting deeper reasoning and stronger exam responses.

Activities include paired impact mapping, an individual personal-consequences task, a career-orientation group task distinguishing affected roles and emerging roles, a hinge question to check conceptual understanding, a transfer scenario, and an evaluation task requiring justified judgement. A short exit ticket provides a clear assessment checkpoint.

The slide deck is fully self-contained and suitable both for classroom delivery and revision use. It includes model answers, structured tasks, and progression (knowledge, application, evaluation). No additional preparation or printing is required.

Ideal for units on future technologies, digital responsibility and career orientation in computing-related subjects.