Class 12 digital ethics and netiquette

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Netiquette and Cyber Ethics1

Week Module

Date Topic Assignments

12Nov 28-Dec 2

Etiquette and Cyber EthicsSoftware Eval Wiki Page and Screencast DUE

13 Dec 5-9 Final TestTest #3: ICT and ECE, Web Design, Digital Ethics and Netiquette

14 Dec 12-16 Last Week of Classes E-Portfolios Due (35%)

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What is the impact of digital technopoly on interpersonal communication?

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identity, & privacy,

ownership and authorship,

credibility, and participation

Technopoly: “the submission of all forms of cultural life to the sovereignty of technique and technology.”

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What are ethics?How do you define what ethics are?

Is there a difference between ethics and morality? If so, what is it?

When facing a situation involving and ethical problem what do you use to solve it? Come up with an example....

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Ethics Morality

Characteristics

Right and WrongUniversal/Objective“Virtue Theory”

Good or BadSubjectivePersonalized

Contexts

LawLegislationProfessional Codes of Conduct

Religious NormsCultural ValuesPersonalized Opinions

Ethics vs. Morality

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Digital Ethics: Issues for Educators

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Cyberbullying

Sexting

Sexualization of Children

Addiction to digital mediums

Issues of Access and literacy

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Netiquette:

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The application of ethical values to digital communication.

RegardRespectReciprocityConsideration ...

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Personal ICT use and Netiquette ... Read the article and see if you can identify three values that have been

identified by the authors as being important when considering netiquette...

1 = Why I dumped my iPhone2 = Mobile device pet peeves.

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Facebook Addiction Disorder ...Please take the Facebook Use Survey Posted on Slate and our course wiki page....

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If you fit any 2 of these criteria, you may want to get checked for FAD.  If you fit 3+ symptoms then it may be time for Rehab

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Facebook: The debate ...

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http://www.good.is/post/if-professors-stop-lecturing-will-students-stop-checking-facebook/

Should educators ban the use of cell phones and Facebook in classrooms?

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“the instrumental view externalizes technologies, views them as fixed objects with a use and purpose. One decides whether to adopt them by considering their use

and purpose, considering their cost, and weighing costs and benefits.”

“The relational perspective explores how technologies reshape peoples perceptions of themselves as agents, their relations to one another, their perceptions of time and

speed, their expectations of predictability and so forth, all dimensions of changing peoples ways of thinking about means and ends, purposes and efficacy.”

POINT: we never simply use the tools, the tools also use us.

Relational vs. InstrumentalRisky Promises...

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Tech TutorialEmbedding Video into WordPress and Wiki Pages

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One member from each group ....

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Next ClassTest #3

Google Document review is posted online and on the course wiki.

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