The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) by society involves ethical issues that cannot be underestimated. Obviously, these issues are not completely new and the new ethical requirements do not only affect the use of ICTs. However, some of the traditional ethical issues related to the processes of learning and knowledge creation clearly do take on a new significance.
Show moreWe therefore need to reflect more deeply on these ethical issues and their relation to education and technology in a global sense in order to analyse them from an anthropological perspective (or perhaps from an ontological one?) and to provide effective solutions that are closely related to the learning processes. Our main goal is to identify points of friction between ethics and technology in education and points of pressure due to ICT use that can be redirected in favour of an educational approach.
As we will see, this approach need not just result from a strictly scholarly perspective but should allow us to open up the spectrum and analyse current responses to specific situations that raise ethical questions beyond formal educational settings. Surely, a wider educational approach will become the only clear way to face these issues in the mid- and long term.
This thematic line should therefore be able to diagnose the current relationship between ethics and ICTs, identify the main challenges, plan for future ones and, above all, establish guidelines that education professionals should draw up in order to ensure the creation of a society of information in which ICTs are not a problem but part of the solution.
Masters in Migration Studies from the University of Kent and a degree in European Social and Political Studies from University College London.
Policy Officer in the Ethics Team of the European Commission's Bureau of European Policy Advisors (BEPA).
Her research interests focus on EU border surveillance technologies, and EU law and policy relating to migration, citizenship and integration.
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