Social Consequences
Educators shall consider
the social consequences when designing programs, implementing systems,
producing reports or papers and representing themselves and their educational
establishment.
6.1 Educators
shall consider designing programs with a positive vs. a negative educational
outcome.
Rationale:
Educators need to
design programs that will help children to read vs. teaching them to play
a game that encourages racial discrimination.
6.2 Educators
shall implement systems for use in the classroom that will benefit all
or parts of society.
Rationale:
Systems should protect
and promote the health and safety of those intended.
6.3 Educators
shall produce reports that are accurate and not misleading.
Rationale:
Educators should
offer statistics that will prove the validity.
6.4 Educators
shall not place papers on the web that would harm.
Rationale:
Educators should
not post a manifesto on how to destroy a topic of choice.
6.5 Educators
shall consider the consequences of representing themselves and their educational
establishment.
Rationale:
It is significant
to one’s academic reputation that one should make every effort to legitimize
documents when posting to the web.
6.6 Educators
shall weigh the consequences of publishing a hard copy document vs. HTML.
Rationale:
Educators need to
examine to what extent society can benefit from a great idea lost in the
vast reaches of the web.
6.7 Educators
shall respect the privacy of our students, faculty and staff.
Rationale:
If an educator posts
a student’s identification on the web, he/she must consider whether that
act will hinder or help that individual.
References:
ACM Code
of Ethics and Professional Conduct
http://www.acm.org/constitution/code.html
Computer Ethics - Boston University
http://www.bu.edu/computing/ethics.html
Computer Ethics
http://www.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/~say/c150/intro/lit10.html
Responsible Computing,
University of Bath
http://www.bath.ac.uk/BUCS/resp.html
The Centre for Computing
and Social Responsibility
http://www.ccsr.cse.dmu.ac.uk/staff/Srog/teaching/ssadm.html
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