Ethical & social issues in educational uses of technologies

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But first ...

• Human subjects review - Sonda Gabriel, OSURR, College of Education
• UIUC's Institutional Review Board
• Coursework projects

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Ethical & social issues in educational uses of technologies

• Access
• Credibility
• Free Speech
• Privacy
• Commercialism
• Intellectual Property, Copyright, and Plagiarism
• Computer Crime and Technology Misuse

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Side Effects

• unintended effects

Credibility

• With the web, students can access information that is false, biased, dangerous, inappropriate
• First order response: filtering software
• Second order response: acceptable use policy
• Side effect: students become more critical thinkers
• Impact on education: we need to develop ways to help students learn to become critical surfers/servers on the web

Toward a Critical Web Literacy Workbench

• a web evaluation rubric
• an interactive web evaluation rubric
• a step toward a Critical Web Literacy Workbench

For next week