Tech & Ethics: Tethics

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Marleen Spierings

February 9, 2020 3:46 pm

Every teacher is a Tech Teacher, but there are many ethical challenges in research and education. Subject teachers as early as primary and secondary education need to be integrating Ethics with their ... View MoreEvery teacher is a Tech Teacher, but there are many ethical challenges in research and education. Subject teachers as early as primary and secondary education need to be integrating Ethics with their classroom use of Technology as we need to educate "a new generation of engineers and scientists so that they will be equipped to deal with the future challenges that mankind faces, while also observing the highest moral standards of academic conduct and research integrity." We need to teach about how valorisation of knowledge works in an ethical way, and concern ourselves with ethics infrastructure: "The term ‘valorization’ refers to a process of facilitating knowledge transfer and, ideally, it creates benefts for society because scientifc knowledge can then be translated into tangible results." This valorisation process faces "potential conflicts associated with research funding, and also challenges associated with teaching broadly oriented future scientists and engineers." As schools and learning are increasingly dependent on collaborations with e.g. Microsoft by using Office 365, or Google, we need to become masters of the Art of separation of spheres: "The emphasis on interactions between the academic domain and the market domain raises concerns that have been discussed by philosopher Michael Walzer, author of Spheres of Justice (Walzer 1983). He has argued that diferent spheres in society have their own normative logics. Many societies try to prevent the intermingling of the normative logics (e.g., expressed in the governance of institutions) of these separate spheres, that is, they attempt to ensure that criteria for the distribution of goods in one sphere are not used to allocate advantages in another sphere. In order to prevent this cross contamination, Western, democratic societies typically practice what Walzer calls ‘the art of separation’ of spheres". So be aware and teach independence of thought and freedom of speech ín primary and secondary education because in the end we need independent scientific judgement. All quotes taken from The Importance of Ethics in Modern Universities of Technology in ©Taebi, B., van den Hoven, J. & Bird, S.J. Sci Eng Ethics (2019) 25: 1625. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-019-00164-6

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