Responsible design for children: whose responsibility?

  • Authors:
  • Eevi E. Beck;Leikny Øgrim;Margareth Sandvik

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway;Oslo University College, Oslo, Norway;Oslo University College, Oslo, Norway

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 4th decennial conference on Critical computing: between sense and sensibility
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Responsibility for ensuring the quality of learning resources for schools has been relaxed or dissolved in many countries. For ICT-based learning resources this raises issues of e.g. how social (cultural, class, gender) responsibility will be ensured. In this paper, we discuss divergent views of where responsibility lies. With designers? With teachers who use it? With the young students? We sketch a model for teacher and student participation in design which takes into account ethical questions.