The Relationship Between Technology And Ethics:
From Society To Schools

Year 2008, Volume: 9 Issue: 4, 120 - 127, 01.12.2008

Behiye Akcay

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to discuss the ethical issues in education in terms of teachers, students, schools, and software companies. Recent growth of the internet and World Wide Web allows new developments in the way instructors transfer knowledge to their students. Technology is a new tool in education that constantly changes and offers new opportunities for teaching and learning. Even so, old habits are hard to change. Typically, the effects of technology are complex, hard to estimate accurately and likely to have different values for different people at different times. Its effects depend upon people’s decisions about development and use.

Keywords

Ethics, Technology, Education, Internet