Several strategies can be used to create an environment conducive to discussion and analysis. To introduce the module, the teachers can assign students a case and have them informally analyze it using their experience as a frame of reference. Getting students used to making value judgments helps them to practice the different skills involved in ethical thinking and decision-making. Such pre-module homework awakens the students' interest in ethics and can form a basis upon which the teacher can build by providing more information, examples of ethical problems, case discussions, external resources,(books, newspapers, magazines, movies, novels) and other resources that promote ethical decision-making. Moreover, this module gives students practice adopting and defending a position in a civil and confident manner.
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Dar la oportunidad a que el estudiante hable libremente haciendo preguntas y conversando con los estudiantes de una forma organizada.
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Escuchar con atención a cada integrante del grupo y dar su interpretación.
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Estructurar un dialogo con el resto de la clase.
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Permitir interpretaciones de otros estudiantes.
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Identificar aquellas respuestas que cumplen con los objetivos del modulo y publicarla ante todos.
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Estar disponible y preparado/a para aclarar dudas.
Suggestions to facilitate learning
- Give students the opportunity to speak freely, ask questions, and discuss issues with classmates in an orderly manner.
- Listen to other speakers attentively and actively interpret what they hear.
- Hold a structured dialogue with the rest of the class.
- Permit interpolations and comments from other students.
- Identify and underline student responses that advance module objectives by instantiating ethical principles and concepts.
- Be open to answering questions and responding to doubts.
III. Learning Objectives: Choose one or both of the following set of moral learning objectives. (The UPRM objectives map almost completely on the Hastings Center objectives.)
Uprm ethical objectives
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Ethical Awareness : Students are able to recognize and characterize the ethical issues that arise in ordinary situations. In pre test format, student recognizes one ethical issue embedded in a realistic scenario.
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Ethical Integration : Students use ethical considerations as specifications in “designing” a solution to a realistic ethical problem. They design solutions to ethical problems that properly and adequately respond to ethical considerations or ethics tests.
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Preventive Ethics : Students uncover a latent or potential ethical problem and design effective counter measures. They use sociothecnical analysis or other “tool” to find value conflicts that arise with the implementation of a new product or service and design countermeasures to defuse the conflict.
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Value Integration : Students find opportunities in realistic situations for realizing moral value through the exercise of their technical and occupational skills. In consultation with a local community, they identify a need and develop means to respond to this need; usually done in service learning context.
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Ethical Evaluation : Students use ethical considerations (approaches, tests) to evaluate and rank alternative solutions to a realistic decision – eliciting situation. In a Gray Matters activity, students correctly rank the alternatives in response to an ethics dilemma or situation.
