Visit BMCC Library-Video Databases-SWANK Digital Campus. Create an account if you don’t already have one (students can do the same if you assign the movie as homework). Select a movie that features morality, complex decisions, etc. A few suggestions: “Barbara,” “The Return.” Critique the movie in the context of CRT […]
Daily Archives: July 23, 2019
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This is a Prezi presentation on Perry’s stages of cognitive development, with movie clips as examples. A possible framework for discussing morality. https://prezi.com/1cmm76suwcb1/perrys-stages-of-cognitive-development/
How can we make ethical decisions? “In this TEDx talk Dr. Michael D. Burroughs discusses the numerous kinds of ethical issues we face, possibilities for increasing our ethical awareness as ‘everyday ethicists,’ and the importance of introducing ethics and philosophical education in our schools.”
Students can take the quiz at home and come to class prepared to share their results with a partner, or write a reflection about their experience of taking the quiz and about the results. As a follow-up activity, students can create a morality quiz in class, in groups, and then […]
What would you do? How do we make moral decisions? This video introduces the famous Trolley Problem. A follow-up activity: class discussion, and students can come up with an updated version of the Trolley Problem.
