THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TECHNOLOGY AND ETHICS;
FROM SOCIETY TO SCHOOLS
CONCLUSION
Our aim is to promote the development of students’ critical thinking and analysis skills.
The overall goal of ethical principles is to protect and advance human values.
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Although the internet makes available a wealth of useful, educational information to
the student, it also provides access to unwelcome information, such as inappropriate
pictures and chat rooms.
Technology already plays an important role in K-12 education, and it will play an
increasingly important role in the future. Our responsibility is to prepare students for
this reality. The form of schooling is changing because of all the technology being
infused into education. Technology development also facilitates more individualized
instruction for each student.
From the educational perspective, teachers need to know how to use technology as a
tool because although many students use computers at home, they generally do not
know how to use them as tools for learning. Teachers should have enough background
to decide which technologies to use, and how to use them. Part of being prepared for
that responsibility requires knowing how technology works, including its alternatives,
benefits, risks, and limitations. On the other hand, students should learn how to ask
important questions about the immediate and long-range impacts that technological
innovations and the elimination of existing technologies are likely to have.