Health Education teachers are fortunate to be immersed in “ethics”, the thinking behind behaviour and the situations where behaviour and ethics diverge. The real-world examples from around the world can now be investigated digitally, allowing up-to-date information from a wide variety of current sources to be accessed. The digital technological tidal wave has created the... Continue Reading →
(Activity 5) Critique and address issues of ethics, law, regulations and policy in practice I was helping a student with a Science Fair project where he was investigating "applied kinesiology" - the study of measuring muscle response to a stimulus as a way to determine health problems. It is used to determine a patient's allergies, but... Continue Reading →
Recently, one of my year 13 students wrote an argument on the merits of anonymity on the web. Initially, I thought it was a naïve idea to think that you could achieve true anonymity when our dealings on the web leave a digital footprint’; however, it was I who was naïve, as it is ‘easy... Continue Reading →
Working in a Special Education department in a Secondary School can lead to many ethical challenges. One such challenge is the issue of teenagers with learning difficulties using social media sites and the possible interactions that can take place on these platforms. The Education Council of Aotearoa New Zealand (2017) has sent out a code... Continue Reading →
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