Ethical Technology Usage

Week1

Technology can be an exceptionally useful resource in society but there is another side to technology which we usually do not think about.  the fact that it can misused which causes many serious ethical issues.  It is similar to having superpowers they can be used for great and magnificent acts or can be used to degrade and wrong society. 

In our class tutorial we were issued with questions such as what if people could track our whereabouts by the use of the cameras that are all around the city?  How would this make us feel? Is it a good or bad thing? Should any be allowed to access the information?  Are you comfortable with people being able to see your every move? This is an interesting topic because there are many positive and negative points to this argument.  It can bring alot of safety to streets where the cameras are because people will be less inclined to act illegally knowing that they are being watched.  It also can be used by the police as evidence in court as evidence in cases.  If someone was to hack the system and follow you around that would be a violation of your privacy and could be used to stalk and harm you.  I do not think that the videos should be publically available because I believe that people have a right to privacy.

There are many hard issues that emerging technologies drag along with them another example is Global Positioning Systems (GPS) they may be open to hackers who could follow your every move whilst they are a very useful piece of technology. So as a teacher is important that we build up a moral grounding with our students and teach them appropriate and safe use of technology and computers.

This video does a good job of touching on a few topics that could get students to think about some of the positive and negative issues that are associated with technology.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLeDx0T5CSo&noredirect=1