Digital Ethics

Attending a very informative session by Dr Jane Secker, LSE at Calderdale College today, which explores the impact of the internet/web 2.0 again on research habits of our current/future generation of learners. Using the Google reader facility, found a thought provoking document published by Global Kids Inc., Harvard University: Meeting of minds: cross-generational dialogue of the ethics of digital life. Avaliable from: http://www.globalkids.org/meetingofminds.pdf . Whilst the students questioned are secondary school level, there are some good discussions, particularly around how students assess and evaluate online information, intellectual property and managing the self in an online environment. Worth looking at.....