In class we had the chance to view a video from Howard Gardner who's
talking about "Digital Youth".
He talks about one of his project called “Good Play Project”. This project is to inform young student to learn about ethical issues in new technologies. They pinpoint 5 ethical problems: identity, privacy, trustworthiness, honour ship, credibility. They are teaching what is to participate in a community.
To be part of an Internet community is much more than only your family and friends. Over the Internet it is easy to create new identity and to pretend to be someone else. This practise is normal over the Internet but as educator we need to make sure no one is harmed in the process.
Talking about educators, M. Gardner specifies that “new challenges arise with new technologies.” As future teacher we need to “understand and not being dictated about what’s right.” Teacher’s will eventually be able to be more present in students’ life and act more as role model because the didactic part will take less place in our schedule if you use properly the new technologies.
Overall the interview with M. Gardner is really interesting and brings questions that we can ask ourselves and reflect on how we could integrate ethical issues in classes with new technologies.
He talks about one of his project called “Good Play Project”. This project is to inform young student to learn about ethical issues in new technologies. They pinpoint 5 ethical problems: identity, privacy, trustworthiness, honour ship, credibility. They are teaching what is to participate in a community.
To be part of an Internet community is much more than only your family and friends. Over the Internet it is easy to create new identity and to pretend to be someone else. This practise is normal over the Internet but as educator we need to make sure no one is harmed in the process.
Talking about educators, M. Gardner specifies that “new challenges arise with new technologies.” As future teacher we need to “understand and not being dictated about what’s right.” Teacher’s will eventually be able to be more present in students’ life and act more as role model because the didactic part will take less place in our schedule if you use properly the new technologies.
Overall the interview with M. Gardner is really interesting and brings questions that we can ask ourselves and reflect on how we could integrate ethical issues in classes with new technologies.
I completely agree. As educators, we must coach our students to be responsible and ethical users.
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