Week 12 is a single page, and the capstone is a solo activity rather than an in-class session. These are example reflection points to think about while you work through the capstone — or to revisit afterwards. You are not expected to engage with all of them; pick the ones that speak most directly to what you actually want to take forward from the course. The full description of how these pages work is on the Week 1 Discussion page.
Reflection prompts
Synthesis and the Integrative Capstone
- Calibrate The capstone asks for a 900-word document about your own discipline. Re-read your draft against the Real / Overclaimed / Aspirational frame from 11.1. Which sentences in your pitch fall in each bucket honestly? Are you comfortable defending the Aspirational ones?
- Apply The pitch asks you to commit to a concrete piece of work. Pick the single hardest sentence to write in your draft — the one you keep returning to and rewriting. What is the underlying uncertainty that makes the sentence hard, and is that uncertainty about AI, about your field, or about yourself?
- Critical The self-critique asks you to identify the strongest objection to your own pitch. Steel-man that objection until it genuinely persuades you. What does your final version of the pitch look like after the steel-man — the same, sharpened, or replaced?
- Connect The course's “one disposition” framing — calibrated reading, verification, and an honest sense of where the present ends — is the through-line of the whole twelve weeks. Pick one part of your pitch where you can see that disposition shaping what you wrote, and one where you can see it not yet shaping what you wrote. Where is the gap, and what would it take to close?