EDTC 5900 Technology & ethics
Course Description
This course will engage social ethics in response to its impact on the developing technologies of global societies. Students will explore the relationship of technology through various philosophical and/or moral perspectives. This course will assist students in exploring their implicit values as they relate to technology.
My Reflection
This was a beast of project. Not only was the subject ambitious, if I say so myself comparing what I did to what others in my class did, but the final video is fifteen minutes long. There were multiple stages that led to this final project from creating annotated bibliographies to graphic organizers to the final project itself. The expectations for the actual project weren’t very clear so I just decided to do what I wanted, which was to likely do way too much.
The content for this project was pretty challenging--I understand neuroanatomy and brain scanning technology more than the average person because of the unit I teach on neuroscience, but there was a lot to learn, organize, and present for a general audience. Creating a digital video, essentially a narrated presentation, allowed me to construct my slides as I wished, converted them into images, imported them into the digital video, then created my voiceovers. I could change the duration of the images to fit my voiceover.
As a visual learner, it’s really helpful for me to have visual aids and text organizers like PowerPoint to help me learn information. My goal for this project was to make the topic accessible while still provided depth of information, and I’m pleased with the overall result. Based on my experiences with this course, I plan to develop a unit for our high school gifted program on technology and ethics.
This course will engage social ethics in response to its impact on the developing technologies of global societies. Students will explore the relationship of technology through various philosophical and/or moral perspectives. This course will assist students in exploring their implicit values as they relate to technology.
My Reflection
This was a beast of project. Not only was the subject ambitious, if I say so myself comparing what I did to what others in my class did, but the final video is fifteen minutes long. There were multiple stages that led to this final project from creating annotated bibliographies to graphic organizers to the final project itself. The expectations for the actual project weren’t very clear so I just decided to do what I wanted, which was to likely do way too much.
The content for this project was pretty challenging--I understand neuroanatomy and brain scanning technology more than the average person because of the unit I teach on neuroscience, but there was a lot to learn, organize, and present for a general audience. Creating a digital video, essentially a narrated presentation, allowed me to construct my slides as I wished, converted them into images, imported them into the digital video, then created my voiceovers. I could change the duration of the images to fit my voiceover.
As a visual learner, it’s really helpful for me to have visual aids and text organizers like PowerPoint to help me learn information. My goal for this project was to make the topic accessible while still provided depth of information, and I’m pleased with the overall result. Based on my experiences with this course, I plan to develop a unit for our high school gifted program on technology and ethics.
