🎯 Learning Intention

I will define digital ethics and identify how my choices as a designer and developer can help or harm real people.

✅ Success Criteria

• I can describe at least two ethical frameworks used in technology decisions.
• I can give one example of a harmful design choice (dark pattern, bias, exclusion).
• I can connect ethics to my own portfolio or project work.

☀️ Warm-Up (5 min)

“Name one technology decision (by any company) that felt unfair, creepy, or harmful. Why?”

Students write 3–4 sentences, then quick share-out.

🧠 Mini-Lesson (15 min) — Ethics for Developers, Not Just Lawyers

Key Ideas (simple language):

• Digital Ethics: How we decide what’s right or wrong when we build or use technology.
• Utilitarian lens: “Does this choice help more people than it harms?”
• Duty/Rights lens (Deontological): “Is this respecting people’s rights, even if it’s inconvenient?”
• Virtue lens: “What kind of person/team does this behavior show us to be?”

Examples to ground it:

• Dark patterns (making “No” hard to click).