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Lecture 4: ethics of Technology for teachers Flashcards

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What is instrumental ethics?

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Technology is an artifact or “just a tool”

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What is Sociomaterial ethics?

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Technology is socially constructed, political actors.

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What is Existential Ethics

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Technology is an ongoing horizon of meaning and action

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What is the connection between humans and tech in instrumental ethics?

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Humans are autonomous, agential being; technologies have no agency outside of us.

= subject - object dichotomy

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What is the connection between humans and tech in Sociomaterial ethics?

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The basic unit of ethical consideration in a hybrid (human-nonhuman) or network of humans and/or technologies.

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What is the connection between humans and tech in Existential Ethics?

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Technology mediates our relationship to our world (by occupying this middle position) there are different (Human-Tech-world) relationships.

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What is an example of instrumental Ethics?

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Guns don’t kill people, people kill people

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What is instrumental ethics based on?

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Based on Cartesian dualism: subjects (humans) and objects (technologies) are seen as wholly separate entities.

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What is the key idea around instrumental ethics?

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Humans are autonomous, agential beings

technologies are sperate from us humans, and do not have agency in and of themselves

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What would be a question someone would ask if they were looking at something with a instrumental ethics point of view?

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What are the possible negative impacts of this technology on particular rights?

What policies or laws do we need to regulate the technology usage to minimize negative impacts while maximizing the positive benefits.

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What is the H-T-W relationship within instrumental ethics?

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Human - technology

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What are the two ethical responses teachers make in response to instrumental ethics?

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Ensuring new classroom technologies comply with established policies and laws

In addition to participating in the development of polices

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What is a common sense privacy rating?

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Product privacy ratings are calculated out of 100%, with a score closer to 100% meaning that it provides more transparent and comprehensive privacy polices with better practices to protect users.

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What is a common sense rating a good indicator of for teachers

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of how much extra work a teacher will need to do to make an informed decision about a product.

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What theory of cognition is closely linked to Sociomaterial ethics?

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The theory of Cognition/ Extended cognition.

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What is the theory of extended cognition?

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Cognition is often offloaded into a non-biological device to serve a variety of functions that would be impossible (or too difficult) to be achieved by only relying on the agents own mental processes

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When looking at the Sociomaterial ethics, what would be the meaning of human-nonhuman?

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This is a network theory of technology, or a post human theory that goes beyond the subject-object dichotomies, and is more allied with indigenous epistemological

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What is the main argument within Lance Strates Media Ecology?

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If its neutral then its not technology.

technology cannot be neutral, because its a form of change, and it has an inherent bias based on the properties of its materials and methods.

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What dose it mean when Sociomaterial ethics says that technology is a political actor?

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Guns don’t kill people, cyborgs do.

As in the mixture of both human and technology are doing the killing not one over the other.

thus the political and more responsibility is shared between both the technology and the user.

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How will technology mediate our actions through a Sociomaterial ethics standpoint?

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Through the use of “scripts”

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What are scripts?

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A pre-scribe action (writen before action)

like a speed bumps script is to slow you down before you approch.

A mug scrip is to be filled and reused

22
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Through Sociomateral ethics, humans are best described as what?

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Human-technology hybrids

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Through Sociomateral ethics, do technologies have ethics?

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Every tech has a bias built into it, or prescriptions that script or progam actions for us to follow or use.

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Through Sociomateral ethics, are all technologies political actors?

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Yes they are, they are a agent of power when coupled with humans

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What are the three main responses teachers will have Through Sociomateral ethics?

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Choose tech that supports their values

Selectively use tech with regard to its scripts and biases

Adapt technologies to support specific pedagogical values

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What is Existental ethics?

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Technology mediates our relationship to our world (by occupying middle ground)

27
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What are the 4 laws of media?

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Enhance
Reverse
Retrieve
obsolete

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What is the point of the 4 laws of media

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To sharpen our perceptions and understanding of technology and its impacts on existing trends in life.

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What are Don Ihde’s 4 human-technology-world relations?

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  • embodiment
  • Hermenuectic
  • Alterity
  • background
30
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Through Existental ethics, we see technology as

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Technology as an ongoing horizon of meaning and action

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Through Existental ethics how do we see the world?

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We see the world through technology

it is the translator, instructor, guide, and leader for which we interact with the world occupying the middle ground between us and the rest of the world.

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What is the idea around Maslows law?

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If the only tool you have is a hammer, then it is easy to see everything as a nail

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What dose it mean to have a tool “present at hand”

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Means that it is just an object, that can be used at any time but is not being currently used.

(hammer in your tool box)

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What dose it mean to have a tool “ready-to-hand”

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Means that the tool is being integrated with you to interact with the world, it is in use, fluidly thourgh you. Both acting as a combined agent to inteact with the world.

Hammer in hand hammering nails

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The more we use things, the more primordial the relationship between tool and user becomes

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This means that we become used to the object to the point that it is a basic, and fundemental tool of use.

Hammers are meant for hammering nails, not for anything else and everyone knows this, thus the relationship is primordial.

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What type of eithic is used within this statment?

“in designing tools, wea re deigning ways of being”

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Existential ethics

37
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What are embodiment relationships?

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technology mediates ones experience with their environment by being a medium between the Human and the World

pencil for writing
car for driving
controller for gaming

38
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What are Hermeneutic Relations?

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the interpretation of technologies, and the use of technology to further understanding

reading a book 
or 
GPS
or 
Calculator
39
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What relationships are used when writing?

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hermeneutic and embodiment relations

40
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Embodiment is what kind of connection

H-T-W

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(H-T)-W

41
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hermeneutic is what kind of connection

H-T-W

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H-(T-W)

42
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Alerity is what kind of connection?

H-T-W

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H-T-(W)

43
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What is a Alterity relationship?

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human beings interact with technologies, with the world at the background of this interaction. Examples are human-robot interactions, getting money from an ATM, or operating a machine

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What are background relations?

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Background Relations is understood as “present absence”, as something not directly experienced yet giving structure to direct experiences

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What is the core ideology of existential ethics?

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Technologies are non-neutral, co-existing, and co-construing.

Humanity and Technology are bound, with each interaction with the other to form our preceptions and interactions of the world

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What is one of the main ethical reponses a teacher has when looking at existential ethics?

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Special attention is given to the well-being and resilience of students’ cognitive ecosystems

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