Ethics of Technology in Education: Challenges and Solutions

Running head: RESEARCH, ETHICS AND PROFESSIONALISM IN COMPUTING
Research, Ethics and Professionalism in computing
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Abstract
This proposed study provides an overview of how the research will be conducted on the
ethics of technology in Education. The purpose of the study is to review the ethical challenges
observed when using technology in education. According to the concepts provided in this
proposal, ethics are a set of principles that should be followed to avoid troubles such as harming
others, hurting others’ sentiment, using unacceptable content. Thereby, the proposed research
will reveal the major ethical principles that are applicable when using technology in education.
The proposed study will reveal the major ethical challenges that appear before the educational
organization when incorporating technology. In order to gain the stated outcome, the study will
include both primary and secondary data and they collected from different relevant data sources.
Particularly, to collect the primary data, interview and survey will be performed among students
and teachers of educational institutes that use technology in education.

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Table of Content
Background/ Information.................................................................................................................3
Research Question...........................................................................................................................4
Review of relevant literature...........................................................................................................4
Role of educational setting in maintaining ethics when using technology..................................5
Ethical Issues in Education Technology......................................................................................6
Teaching ethics in the age of technology....................................................................................8
How to address technology related ethical issues........................................................................9
Critical Review of applicable Research Methodologies..................................................................9
Research Philosophy......................................................................................................................10
Research Approach....................................................................................................................11
Data collection techniques.........................................................................................................12
Data analysis:.............................................................................................................................13
Sampling:...................................................................................................................................13
Detail Project Plan (Gantt chart)................................................................................................14
References and Bibliography.........................................................................................................15
Appendix........................................................................................................................................18
Ethical Consideration.................................................................................................................18

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Topic- Ethics of Technology in Education
Background/ Information
The proposed research will be conducted on the ethics of technology in education.
Nowadays, as people increase the use of technology, people also need to be conscious of ethical
issues that increase from the technological use. It is identified that understanding the largest
ethical challenge affecting education will help people understand how to resolve them.
Therefore, the importance of conducting a research on this context lies on the fact that excessive
use of technology in education often neglects the mandatory ethics. So, the proposed research
would help to understand the potential ethical challenges in education caused by excessive use of
technology and address the identified challenges. The purpose of the proposed research is to
assess the ethical issues associated with technology affecting education and develop potential
solution.
As put forward by Zalaghi and Khazaei (2016) ethics has always been at the core of
generating a thriving learning environment. People or the instructors are well accustomed to
teach students ethis through the principles. However, it is certain that widespread availability of
technology often bring emerging ethical challenges to the forefront. Tavani (2011) commented
that technology in classroom could be extremely disruptive. The author argues that the society
has imposed some guidelines for things that students cannot do. Nonetheless, teachers make
attempt to educate students to become accustomed with computers, the instructors push them
into cyberspace without any guidance. Nonetheless, it is inappropriate to expect young students
to behave ethically on internet, when their identity is hidden. Januszewski and Molenda (2013)
on their ethical research discussed how growth and development in technology is moving faster

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and the youths can understand the ethical consequence of the technological use. It is also
identified that particularly at the development stage, the students highly benefit from the learning
ethics in face-to-face communication. Therefore, it can be mentioned that ethics play a great role
in technology and the education setting adoption technology must have to consider the base for
ethics.
Research Question
1. What are the ethical factors influencing the use of technology in education?
2. How ethics associated with technology can be applied to education?
3. What are implications if ethics are not applied in education when using technology?
Review of relevant literature
As put forward by Cheung and Slavin (2013), the privacy of internet users could be one
of the significant issues. The consumption of internet technology has increased rapidly but the
internet connection has become less costly. Nonetheless, it is identified that when it comes to an
educational setting, there are many students who may not know their personal information could
be public when get online. One of the basic principles that exist in many regulations is an
individual cannot leak or share a person’s personal information to others. Nonetheless, it is
nothing unfamiliar that organizations can use personal information that were gathered by their
website and utilize them for telemarketing or sell them to the other firms. Likewise, there are
several facts and findings provided by the scholars in this context. Thus, to conduct a detailed
review of those facts and findings, almost 25 journal articles on ethics and technology have been
considered and used.