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Useful links and Websites
Fantastic resource for those interested in bioethics. The site has a stream of current bioethics news, featured articles, an editor’s blog, book reviews and much more.
Bioethics Forum, the blog of the Hastings Center Report, publishes thoughtful commentary from a range of perspectives on timely issues in bioethics. The website is very easy to navigate and includes links to articles, commentary's and an editor’s podcast. Teaching Ethics is a website dedicated to promoting a free exchange of ideas among secondary school educators. It was set up and is maintained by Mr. Anthony Tiatorio.
A website dedicated to providing students, teachers, school boards and other affiliated groups with tools that support their ethical development. Includes classroom activities, online seminars and other useful resources.
Implications of Artificial Intelligence for Society. A list of resources that focus on AI, but also included are works that range more broadly into the general impact of computerization.
A peer-reviewed academic resource. Includes detailed explanations of meta-ethics, normative ethics and applied ethics. Also suggests further reading.
This is an archive of moral & ethical discussion starters from the case files of Charis Denison who works as the National Service-Learning consultant for the Council for Spiritual and Ethical Education.
Ethics Updates is designed primarily to be used by ethics instructors and their students. It is intended to provide resources and updates on current literature, both popular and professional, that relates to ethics.
Worldchanging.com is a nonprofit media organization dedicated to solutions-based journalism about the planetary future. A very useful site with some veryrelative articles.
(ERC) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization, dedicated to independent research that advances high ethical standards and practices in public and private institutions. The site contains user friendly resources.
Bioethics Forum, the blog of the Hastings Center Report, publishes thoughtful commentary from a range of perspectives on timely issues in bioethics. The website is very easy to navigate and includes links to articles, commentary's and an editor’s podcast. Teaching Ethics is a website dedicated to promoting a free exchange of ideas among secondary school educators. It was set up and is maintained by Mr. Anthony Tiatorio.
A website dedicated to providing students, teachers, school boards and other affiliated groups with tools that support their ethical development. Includes classroom activities, online seminars and other useful resources.
Implications of Artificial Intelligence for Society. A list of resources that focus on AI, but also included are works that range more broadly into the general impact of computerization.
A peer-reviewed academic resource. Includes detailed explanations of meta-ethics, normative ethics and applied ethics. Also suggests further reading.
This is an archive of moral & ethical discussion starters from the case files of Charis Denison who works as the National Service-Learning consultant for the Council for Spiritual and Ethical Education.
Ethics Updates is designed primarily to be used by ethics instructors and their students. It is intended to provide resources and updates on current literature, both popular and professional, that relates to ethics.
Worldchanging.com is a nonprofit media organization dedicated to solutions-based journalism about the planetary future. A very useful site with some veryrelative articles.
(ERC) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization, dedicated to independent research that advances high ethical standards and practices in public and private institutions. The site contains user friendly resources.
Games, Exercises and Quizzes
- The Ultimate Ethics Quiz
A short quiz with possible everyday scenarios.
- Ethics Quiz- The Good, The Bad & The Difference.
A very good quiz for young adults. Covers issues of privacy, fairness, and truth.
- Netcity.org - Cybersafety Game.
A fun cyber safety game for children aged 9+ developed in Switzerland for "Action Innoncence" and the Swiss Foundation for the Protection of Childhood.
- UNHCR - Against All Odds.
A brilliant game that allows players to experience life as a Refugee. Suitable for ages 7+.
- Morals and Social Responsibility Quiz.
From the BBC website - a simple questionnaire on morals and social responsibility.
- The Moral Sense Test
The Moral Sense Test is a Web-based study into the nature of human moral judgment. It is comprised of a series of moral dilemmas that probe the psychological mechanisms of our underlying moral judgments. The test requires participants to answer a few short questions and undertake a few simple tasks. The test is sponsered by the Cognitive Evolution Laboratory, which is part of the Psychology Department at Harvard University.
- Theory Building Activities: Mountain Terrorist Exercise
This exercise poses an ethical dilemma that is a forced choice between two negative outcomes. Students must discuss both options and arrive at a consensus. The Mountain Terrorist Exercise almost always generates lively discussion and helps us to reflect on of our moral beliefs.