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Name: Robert W. Taylor
From: New Jersey
Bio: Author of "The Murphy Gap," a book urging that ethics education accompany new technologies
Area of Expertise: Research Scientist/Illuminator
Topic: Community/Culture
Headline: The teaching of cyber ethics is vital!
Nutshell: There is and will be a need for the teaching of "cyberethics" in our K-12 school system.
Vision:Students and staff must learn to relate new, rapid internet changes with the Constitutional principles underlying our Republic’s history thus far.
Cyberethics courses should evolve naturally as common-sense alternatives to remedying the problems caused by the simultaneous computerization of public schools and weakening of the family structure of our culture, which is beset by divorce, geographic dislocation, substance and physical abuse, and other cultural anomalies.
Cyberethics courses should be the "Driver’s Ed" courses of the Information Superhighway. Some of our most jaded corporations (Auto Insurance Companies) give discounts to students who provide evidence of taking such courses under the assumption they make for safer drivers. Today there is no driver’s ed for the Information Superhighway, but it is my prediction that such a need will increase with time.
Date Submitted: January 21, 2005
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