Ethical & social issues in educational uses of technologies, part 2

• But first...
• Progress reports today
• Lanny Arvan, Tuesday, Nov 12, noon, 242 Ed Bldg., "The Future of Educational Technology at UIUC"
• EdPsy 490 Li "Learning and Development with Educational Technologies", Spring 2002
• Classroom artifacts

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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Your reactions

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Side Effects

• unintended effects

Credibility

• Issue: With the web, students can access information that is false, biased, dangerous, inappropriate
• First order response: filtering software (CIPA)
• 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

• a web evaluation rubric
• an interactive web evaluation rubric
• Web Evaluation Workbench

White Papers as educational reform

• Three ways to have student work serve the world outside education
  • creating resources (EPS 304 in Spring 1999)
  • review and revision (in EdPsy 387 in Summer 2002)
  • extension (in EPS 304 in Summer 2002)

TSE Research Challenges

• Challenge making
• Challenge taking
• Challenge workspaces

TSE Research Portal

TSE Development Portal