Ethical Dilemmas
Technology is something that is coming into our lives faster than we can help. Soon, it will run everything. Even now, we are slowly going toward strictly technology based learning. I am going to tell you how it changed the world and how it has changed education. Technology enhances our learning because it gives us more of an opportunity to find the information. In a simple textbook, the information is more difficult to find, one would have to read through almost a whole chapter to find one sentence that they need, whereas when you are using the internet, they can just type in what they need into a search engine, and get a website that talks about that topic. That makes research a lot easier and takes a lot of stress off the student. For
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In a classroom, there are only so many computers, so say there are four. The first four kids to get to the computers may get to use them, and the rest of the class would not. That is not very fair, and it makes us realize that there is an ethical dilemma. Should you let the four students on the computer and let everyone else do it without one? Should you just say not to use computers, possibly keeping important information? An ethical dilemma is a complex situation that often involves apparent mental conflict between moral imperatives, in which to obey one would result in transgressing another. Not only is there an ethical dilemma when it comes to using technology in the classroom, there could even be a legal problem with it, copyright. Copyright is when one would copy something from online and use it in an essay or something, without crediting the author. You would see it a lot more with an essay that has to be turned in on the computer, because the students would get lazy and they would want to just copy something to get it over with. What they do not realize is, they could get a punishment from getting a zero on the assignment, to possibly they could get suspended for the year. That much punishment over a couple of copied words? Yeah, it is a big deal. Some problems using technology in the classroom could be social or economical problems. Social because, mostly in younger kids,
In a classroom, there are only so many computers, so say there are four. The first four kids to get to the computers may get to use them, and the rest of the class would not. That is not very fair, and it makes us realize that there is an ethical dilemma. Should you let the four students on the computer and let everyone else do it without one? Should you just say not to use computers, possibly keeping important information? An ethical dilemma is a complex situation that often involves apparent mental conflict between moral imperatives, in which to obey one would result in transgressing another. Not only is there an ethical dilemma when it comes to using technology in the classroom, there could even be a legal problem with it, copyright. Copyright is when one would copy something from online and use it in an essay or something, without crediting the author. You would see it a lot more with an essay that has to be turned in on the computer, because the students would get lazy and they would want to just copy something to get it over with. What they do not realize is, they could get a punishment from getting a zero on the assignment, to possibly they could get suspended for the year. That much punishment over a couple of copied words? Yeah, it is a big deal. Some problems using technology in the classroom could be social or economical problems. Social because, mostly in younger kids,