ETHICAL PUZZLES

In their academic careers and in their personal lives, today's students are constantly bombarded with legal and ethical choices involving intellectual property. The Ethical Puzzles in Cyberspace are designed to give students the tools they need to understand questions about law, ethics and policy in the digital age. Each chapter presents a puzzle. The puzzles raise multidimensional issues involving law, technology, ethics, politics, and culture. They present ethical dilemmas which students confront every day in school, in extracurricular activities and in their free time. The puzzles provide a platform for reflecting about these issues through classroom discussions and independent writing assignments. Each puzzle presents a role-playing exercise, designed to give students the tools they need to approach these issues thoughtfully. After working through the ethical puzzles, each student should be much better equipped to work through the challenges they will face in our modern technological society.