[Year 12 SofDev] Ethical dilemmas

[Mark KELLY]

Thanks, Di!

On 29 August 2011 15:29, Dianne Hay <Dianne.Hay at knox.vic.edu.au> wrote:

> The activity I use to introduce ethics in Business Management may work for
> some of you to start off the topic…****
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> I get the students to stand up in an open area (a good one to take outside
> if the weather is nice) and give them a series of ethical
> questions/scenarios (they don’t have to be IT related for this intro
> activity – in fact, it works better if they are not IT related).  For each
> scenario, they must decide between two choices. For choice 1 they have to go
> to the left side of the room for choice 2 they have to go to the right side
> - they can not choose the middle****
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> For example: if your house was on fire and you could only save one of the
> following, which would you save. 1. A bottle containing the cure to cancer
> or 2. Your dog.****
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> The idea being that they have to consider the consequences of each option
> and make a choice (many just want to stay in the middle).  It often starts
> some debates between students, or you can question students as to why they
> made the choice that they did or why they had such a problem trying to
> decide.****
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> To help devise a list of dilemmas, you may want to have a look at some of
> these sites.****
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> http://listverse.com/2007/10/21/top-10-moral-dilemmas/****
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> http://www.differencemakers.com/swapshop/pdf/dilemma_examples.pdf****
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> http://www.friesian.com/valley/dilemmas.htm****
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> http://dornsife.usc.edu/dilemmas-and-case-studies/****
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> Hope this helps****
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> *Di Hay*
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> *From:* Mark KELLY [mailto:kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au]
> *Sent:* Friday, 26 August 2011 3:26 PM
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> *Subject:* [Year 12 SofDev] Ethical dilemmas****
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> Today I started ethical dilemma theory with my kids (using
> http://www.vceit.com/slideshows/SD-U4O2-Managing-Ethical-Dilemmas.ppt) and
> it's not too easy!
>
> The kids, as VCAA has kept saying in examiners' reports) too keen to turn
> the ethical problem into a legal one (which is easier for them to deal with)
> or to not see that each dilemma has its shades of grey and is not black and
> white.
>
> I guess they could handle it better in a few years, but it's really hard
> for them to cope with at this stage in their development.  I hope the
> 'ethical dilemma' exam question this year takes into account that much of
> our our cohort are not yet mature thinkers capable of handling subtle
> distinctions.
>
> Happy weekend ;-)
>
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Mark Kelly
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