For those who have been paying attention, this summer has been full of stories about information technologies and the ethics of those devices. Personally, I hope these stories stay in the news and western societies continue the collective conversation about how to conduct ourselves in the digital world. I hope we ("the people") also continue to be heard and those who acted in an unethical manner (and their bosses and the owners of the companies for which they worked) are held accountable both economically and criminally.
As educators, we all have a responsibility to engage our students in discussions about the world in which they live and to encourage them to think about what companies and governments are doing and how those actions affect us. To that end, the speaker in a recently posted TED Talk proposes we "take the Internet back." It is on my "to share ith students" list for the fall:
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