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What is Ethics?

Assignment: Reading Response

What is Ethics?Assignment: Reading Response
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The Task

A Reading Response is:

-1 page typed (size 12 font, standard margins)

-single spaced

It has:

-a heading (your name, date, class name, Merrill DeGraff)

-a creative title (no larger than a 24 size font)

-a summary of the readings and videos (1-3 paragraphs)

*Be sure to note the titles and authors (formal citation is not needed)

-some analysis which might include (1-3 paragraphs)

  • connections to yourself, other classes and readings, the world, etc.
  • implications in the classroom
  • wonderings
  • adding in new information
  • other (Sometimes you just need time in your favorite modality!)

*Some possibilities: find and explain a photo that connects to the topic, make and explain a graph or infographic, make a piece of art or cartoon, write a poem, ...

*Be sure to connect your created piece directly back to the big ideas of the reading in 2 or more sentences!

Reading Responses need to be:

-saved as First letter of your first name.Last name_Reading_Response_Course_Week_#

Eg. M.DeGraff_Reading_Response_EDU203_Week_1

-submitted on Brightspace by the due before our next class

Assessment

-Each Reading Response is worth 12 points based on the provided rubric.

Week 2 Required Readings Week 2 Required Readings

A Definition: Merriam-Webster

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ethic

BBC Ethics a General Introduction

Please only read the first 3 sections!

  • What is ethics?
  • What use is ethics?
  • Ethics and people
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/introduction/intro_1.shtm

Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

https://www.scu.edu/ethics/ethics-resources/ethical-decision-making/what-is-ethics/

Go Deeper! Optional Readings to Consider Go Deeper! Optional Readings to Consider

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In the News

Google CEO: Our AI won't be used for harm

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/06/08/google-ceo-our-ai-wont-be-used-for-harm/


Next steps for promoting organic news fluency

https://www.americanpressinstitute.org/publications/reports/white-papers/organic-news-fluency-next-steps/

How Did I Live Today?

5 Reflection Questions at the End of Each Day

https://www.scu.edu/ethics/ethics-resources/ethical-decision-making/how-did-i-live-today/

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