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Digital Ethical Dilemmas in Teaching - Coggle Diagram
Digital Ethical Dilemmas in Teaching
School Level
Privacy and Surveillance
Technology that monitors student behaviour require ethical consideration about the degree to which students have a right to privacy and what level of surveillance is acceptable.
Purposes of Education
What are the purposes of education, and what are the purposes of giving students digital tools?
Big Data
Increased data complexity and new uses of data are changing measures of educational success and purpose. Data driven education is becoming more prominent and changing the way the government departments evaluate and analyse school and teacher performance.
Continuous Assessment
To what extent should the purposes of education determined and driven by commercial issues?
Locus of Control
Curriculum and pedagogy are being designed by those who deliver them. E.g. computer adaptive testing is controlled by those who design the technology, not by teachers or government bureaucracies.
Teacher Level
Who is responsible for upskilling the teachers?
Personal vs professional use. Do teachers have the right to privacy if using a teacher identity online and if using workplace- provided technology?
Boundary dilemmas. To what degree do teachers have the right to follow social norms and participate in digital culture?
Apps in the classroom. Apps such as ClassDojo may breach school system rules on data management if they store educational and student data offshore.
Student Level
Equity and Educational Technology: BYOD- socioeconomic status of students
Students may not have access to a device
If device is damaged on school property, students may not be able to repair or replace device
Teacher can not rely on the device being able to run certain software
Students' Online Ethics
James' ethical understanding in students categorized
Thinking about people they know; moral thinking- 'treat others how you would like to be treated'
Ethical thinking; thinking about unknown others. Focuses on the consequences on others that the individual does not know.
A self focused understanding, focuses on the implications or consequences for themselves due to their actions