21st Century Learning and Teaching

I watch the killing that’s taking place around the world and ask myself why?

How can someone be so intolerant that they can kill another person over their beliefs? How can someone be so angry that they’re willing to take the life of an innocent child to advance a cause? How can someone be so confused that they refuse to honor and value a life?

There’s no simple answer to the horrific crisis that we face, but I’m convinced that a contributing factor is the poisoning of our minds.

We are bombarded with hatred, intolerance, and violence every day. The entertainment industry incorporates hate, intolerance, and violence into movies, music, comedy routines, and video games in order to increase sales.

The news media hypes violence to boost television ratings. Politicians appeal to our dark side to win votes. These acts are desensitizing our personal values, polluting our minds, and corroding our culture.

While violent and hateful stimulation do not affect everyone, repetitive, negative stimulation may confuse an already deranged mind and cause that mind to snap — just as steel may break if bombarded continually at its weakest spot.

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Facebook’s most recently published study is not unique. This is a call to action.

===> We should work together to demand that companies promise not to make us involuntary accomplices in corporate activities that compromise other people’s autonomy and trust. <===

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Facebook conducted a study for one week in 2012 testing the effects of manipulating News Feed based on emotions. The results have hit the media like a bomb. What did the study find? Was it ethical? And what could or should have been changed?

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[This post has been updated to include comments from the Adam Kramer, the Facebook employee who coauthored the study.] A recent, partially Army-funded..

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There’s a direct correlation between moral character and success. We lose something very important when character is treated as an afterthought.

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- http://www.happylawyersblog.com/2014/02/10/word-of-the-week-moral-compass-meditate-on-this-phrase/

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Everyday, educators come together both in and out of our schools in order to promote social, emotional, cognitive, and behavioural success for all students, thus enabling them to function to their ...

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It looks like Lenovo has been installing adware onto new consumer computers from the company that activates when taken out of the box for the first time. 

The adware, named Superfish, is reportedly installed on a number of Lenovo’s consumer laptops out of the box. The software injects third-party ads on Google searches and websites without the user’s permission.

There’s a direct correlation between moral character and success. We lose something very important when character is treated as an afterthought.

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EPIC contends that Facebook 'purposefully messed with people's minds' when it manipulated their news feeds to measure emotional responses.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center filed the complaint Thursday, asking the FTC to impose sanctions on Facebook. The study violated terms of a 20-year consent decree that requires the social-networking company must protect its users’ privacy, EPIC said. EPIC also wants Facebook to be forced to disclose the algorithms it uses to determine what appears in users’ news feeds.

A member of Facebook's team has finally stepped forward to address concerns about the company's emotion contagion experiment on users.

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Für eine Facebook-Studie wurden Hundertausende Mitglieder unfreiwillig zu Versuchskaninchen. Der Psychologe Fred Lang erklärt, welche Regeln dabei verletzt wurden.

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These two words used together are important – very important.  In the legal profession, we must use a moral compass because we meet people who have lost their way.  We have to make sure, at all time, that we do not head in the wrong direction also.

Take time to meditate about the meaning of the word “moral compass” to you.

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- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Values

The tactics are different from those used for encouraging achievement.

“What’s that you’ve got there?” the barista asks, tapping his chest. I don’t need to look down to know what he means. “It’s ...

Ethical decision-making should be included as a 21st century skill (overused term but don't know of an alternative).  Some would profess that ethical decision-making has always been a needed skill....

Society is a dynamic system. It must, by nature, evolve in order to survive. As we develop the new definitions of appropriate behavior in the online environment it is imperative that many members of society be engaged in this ongoing dialogue.

An informed community and active discussion of ethical issues will enable society to determine civil and just manners to deal with the nuances of technological advancement (Rezmierski, 1992).

By opening this dialogue within the K-12 environment, teachers will be able to prepare students to understand the proper use of technology and explore the issues that will continue to unfold (Using Moral Development Theory to Teach K-12 Cyber Ethics).

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