Professional Ethics in Education Flashcards
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A student's BrainPOP assignment reveals signs of significant academic dishonesty using AI-generated text in the Make-a-Movie tool. The ethical educator should:
Answer: Address it through the school's academic integrity policy and use it as a teaching moment
Emerging technology misuse should be handled through established academic integrity policies while educating students about appropriate AI use.
How should a CBE educator handle a situation where BrainPOP content conflicts with a local school board's curriculum restrictions?
Answer: Skip the content and select alternative BrainPOP topics that meet district standards
Educators must work within district curriculum guidelines even when using third-party tools like BrainPOP.
What is the ethical implication of an educator publicly comparing two students' BrainPOP quiz scores to motivate the lower-performing student?
Answer: It violates student privacy and can cause psychological harm
Public comparison of student performance is a privacy violation and can cause emotional harm, regardless of the educator's intent.
A CBE educator wants to use BrainPOP data to write a blog post about effective EdTech strategies. Ethical practice requires:
Answer: Using only aggregated, anonymized data with no student identifiers
Public sharing of educational insights must use only anonymized, aggregate data to protect student privacy under FERPA.
An educator discovers that BrainPOP has updated its privacy policy in ways that may affect student data. The professional ethical responsibility is to:
Answer: Review the updated policy, consult with administration, and notify parents of relevant changes
Ongoing professional responsibility requires staying current with platform privacy changes and informing stakeholders of anything that affects student data.
Which situation represents a conflict of interest that a CBE educator must disclose?
Answer: Receiving a sponsored gift card from BrainPOP for recommending it to colleagues
Receiving personal financial benefit for recommending a product to colleagues is a conflict of interest that must be disclosed professionally.
When a student requests that their BrainPOP progress data be deleted under a right-to-erasure request, the educator's ethical role is to:
Answer: Explain the request process and direct the family to the appropriate administrator and platform contacts
Educators should facilitate data rights requests by connecting families with proper administrative and platform channels rather than acting unilaterally.