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By: Diana Loewan, Collen May, Rebecca Skucas, Terry Tuck, and Pooney Yazdani.
The proper point of an ethics course is critical inquiry: not encouraging good
behaviour as such but rather inquiring into what should count as good behaviour
the Oxford English Dictionary ethics and ethical are described as a set of moral
online environment. The goals for this project are to provide learners with
to develop the cognitive structures that enable them to engage in ethical thinking
(Graber and Lieberman, 2015). Therefore we have chosen to focus the learning
objectives and activities of this project on students aged 12-13. This project is
designed to help educators and students together tackle some of the ethical
issues that are the most relevant to adolescents dealing with new media. As
must work together to ensure that all young Americans... are socialized into the
emerging ethical standards that should shape their practices as media makers
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will be age appropriate and will be drawing from what James et al. call the most
salient new media issues of today: identity, privacy, ownership and authorship,
targeted age range we will be drawing from the research of moral psychologists
proposed by theorists such as Piaget and Kohlberg. We will also be looking into
of children about these issues and will discuss a few relevant points later in this
Biggs Taxonomy.
The activities in the project are design based around the pedagogical
model described by the New London Group and consist of works that include:1
discussion and activity around the main ethical issues. Participants will be asked
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introduced to games and game creation website such as Quandary where they
can learn about ethics in a fun and interactive environment. Additional activities
collaborating to design their own prezi (or a similar style artifact) to present ethics
group.
With learning objectives that are supported by research and activities that
are engaging to the learner, our design project will enable students to develop a
stronger understanding of some of the important ethical issues that they face
today.