- Feb 2020
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There’s little doubt that students share information on social media school administrators might find useful. There is some debate over whether—or how—it can be accurately or ethically extracted by software.
Again, going back to utilitarianism, I think that if this software actually will help saves, which effect 100's of people, it should be implemented by the school as long as the students know about it. With those circumstances, I don't really see any negatives to the story, therefore providing great benefit for a lot of people.
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Prewitt says the alerts help him keep his 4,000 students and 500 staff safe. “If someone posts something threatening to someone else, we can contact the families and work with the students before it gets to the point of a fight happening in school,” he says.
I think that the students of the school definitely have the right to know that the school is monitoring their social media, especially if it is not on school grounds. They should be given the option on whether or not they let the school monitor them. If that is done then I am all for the school doing so in order to keep safety.
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Blake Prewitt, superintendent of Lakeview school district in Battle Creek, Michigan, says he typically wakes up each morning to twenty new emails from a social media monitoring system the district activated earlier this year.
This to me is completely new news. I had no idea schools were doing this and I have thought about it for awhile now deciding if I think its ethical or not. When thinking of this I tend to think of utilitarianism, the greatest benefit for the greatest number. In doing so, I have came to the belief that if such a meaningless tracking device can potentially save lives, why wouldn't all schools be doing this because of the positive benefit for so many.
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colig.github.io colig.github.io
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The ethical principle I am interested in, utilitarianism, originated back in the 18th and 19th centuries from a guy named Jeremy Bentham, James Mill, and his son John Stuart Mill. As Catherine Rainbow from Davidson College states, the main focus of utilitarianism is that the most ethical decision is the one that yields the greatest benefit to the greatest number of people. To me I think that is a fun topic to think about because if a lot of people focused on this ethical strategy the world would be a lot less selfish and more selfless. The main flaw is that the predictions someone may make about a certain issue may not actually be for the greatest good as time passes along.
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The ethical principle I am interested in, utilitarianism, originated back in the 18th and 19th centuries from a guy named Jeremy Bentham, James Mill, and his son John Stuart Mill. As Catherine Rainbow from Davidson College states, the main focus of utilitarianism is that the most ethical decision is the one that yields the greatest benefit to the greatest number of people. To me I think that is a fun topic to think about because if a lot of people focused on this ethical strategy the world would be a lot less selfish and more selfless. The main flaw is that the predictions someone may make about a certain issue may not actually be for the greatest good as time passes along. #summary
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learningfutures.github.io learningfutures.github.io
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here are so manydifferent kinds of technologies, each designed for a different purpose, made fromdifferent materials, requiring different skills, and used in different contexts, that itis unlikely that a common set of defining properties could possibly apply to all ofthem
This is something that caught my eye. I have never really thought about what constitutes technology or how much technology we actually use in our day to day but it is currently blowing my mind. Literally almost every single thing we do in a day uses technology, whether it is figuring out directions, ordering food, I mean it could go on and on forever. This relates back to what Dash was saying about breaking the news. I cant even imagine living in a world where the technology isn't advanced enough where you know pretty much in real-time what is going on all across the globe.
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Our world is largely aconstructed environment; our technologies and technological systems form thebackground, context, and medium for lives.
I really liked this quote. I feel like I have thought this for awhile but wasn't really sure how to put it in words. It just shows that your everyday habits and things you surround yourself with become natural in your life.
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