Basic Computer Ethics

This page deals with Basic Ethical considerations in the computing world. This lecture should be taught at the same time that basic computing methods are being taught. These are the important ethical issues that all students should be aware of from their first experiences forward.

Readings - To be read before class

Montgomery County School system rules for computer use.

Notes

In Class Assignments - These are assignments that will be completed in class.

Get into a group and brainstorm to create a list of all the software that you each use on a daily basis. Then attach prices to each of these producs and try to figure out how much money they are worth. This is the amount of money that the software companies would have lost had you pirated the software.

Projects - Both group and individual.

Go home and check to be sure that you can find licences for all of the non-shareware and non-freeware software on your system (if you do not have a system at home, then do the same in the school library). Then write a one page summary of what you have learned about software piracy.