International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities (IZEW)

Educational Materials for Teachers: Ethics of Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence

The IZEW is developing teaching materials for teachers at German schools in the context of the digital transformation. The ethical reflection of media phenomena in the digital world guides the creation of teaching concepts and materials. The current focus is on topics of security risks for children and youth online and the risk of discrimination through artificial intelligence.

IZEW-Team

  • PD Dr. Jessica Heesen (Project leader)
  • Laura Schelenz  (Project research associate)

Funding

June 2023 - October 2024

 

Project description

As part of TüDiTeach 2.0 and in cooperation with the Tübingen School of Education (TüSE), the IZEW is developing teaching materials for teachers at German schools in the context of digital transformation. The materials support teachers in dealing with previously underexposed topics of digital life, media use, and new developments in connection with artificial intelligence. While schools are well equipped with existing materials for their traditional subject areas, there is a need among teachers for knowledge and concepts to reflect on phenomena such as security risks and discrimination against children and youth in their use of digital media. To support teachers, the IZEW sub-project is developing materials for ethical reflection on topics relating to digitalization and AI.

The thematic focus of the teaching materials currently includes (but will be continuously expanded)

- Online safety for children (interaction risks/content risks)

- Discrimination and artificial intelligence

The teaching materials are published internationally in publicly accessible repositories under the Creative Commons License CC BY-NC 4.0 Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0. In particular, they are aligned with the school curriculum in Baden-Württemberg (especially German, English and Ethics), but they can be adapted by teachers at schools throughout Germany and integrated into their own lesson plans.