Personal and professional ethics; Ethical issues and legal issues in the digital age; and Tools for ethical decision making
Step 1 (What) : An ethical dilemma that I have faced in my practice, related to digital or online activity is plagiarism and intellectual-property violation. As Cranston, Ehrich & Kimber (2004) discuss the definition of ethics is so varied. Ethics is often defined as what it is not like "misconduct, corruption, fraud and other types of illegal behaviour" but is also "drawn on notions of integrity, honesty, Personal values and professional codes". All in all, "ethics is about relationships" and what people see as right and wrong/ the good and bad. A digital activity that I have incorporated into my classroom is the use of Blogger as a 'Response to Text". In this activity students were able to get on to an online Blog as Editors to the page so they could post, comment, discuss and collaborate on activities online. Being Editors to the Blog made it possible for the some students to get online and abuse this opportunity by using o...