Showing posts with label morality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label morality. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Outside Reading for Ethical and Moral Issues


Read outside of class:
  1. Choose one of these articles to read.
  2. Provide an objective summary.
  3. Find, define, and use in a sentence 10 new vocabulary words.
  4. Prepare a short presentation to the class about what you learned.


These are all available online through our class blog, kawaikinienglish.blogspot.com


“Our Inconsistent Ethical Instincts” by Matthew Huson. New York Times, March 30, 2013.


“Lab Rats One and All: That Unsettling Facebook Experiment” by Linda Holmes. NPR.org


“An Education in Ethics” By John Delaney


“7 Myths about Ethics which will Hurt Your Business” by Marty Zwilling


“The Sneaky Trap that’s Hurting Your Decision Making” by Francesca Gino


“Mood Could Influence Moral Decisions, Study Shows” by Travis Riddle


“How do we Humans ever Make Good Decisions?” by Jim Taylor


“5 Mind Hacks to Better Manage your Attitude” By Vee Somphon


“3 Steps to Getting ‘Unstuck’ and Becoming Your Better Self” by Melinda Blau


“In Life and Business, Learning to be Ethical” by Elina Tugend


“Needed: A New Approach to Ethics in Government” by Terry Newell


“How We Treat Others” by Tom Morris


“Does Morality Exist in the Music Business?” By Patrick Hess


“Moral Combat: Do Violent Video Games Make us Reflect on Morality?” By Christopher Ferguson


“The Children We Mean to Raise” by Stephanie Jones


“Responding to 5 Trends in Youth Morality” by Tim Ellmore


“The Whistle Blower's Quandary” by Adam Waytz


“If it Feels Right” by David Brooks


“Watching How the Brain Works as it Weighs a Moral Dilemma” by Sandra Blakeslee


“Men and Women and Morality” by Carol Tavris


Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Most Valuable Value

We all had to choose one value that we felt was most important to us, post it on the wall, then comment on we which other's values. And then comment on the comments. Here are some of our thoughts.
This is what the final product looks like: