Transcript Powerpoint

• For this to work – there must be
absolute silence.
• Carefully watch the following
video clip and count how many
times the players wearing white
pass the basketball.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo
http://evl.vcsd.k12.ny.us/safevideos/SearchResults.aspx?search=attention
• Do we have selective attention?
• A 1999 study revealed how people can
focus so hard on something that they
become blind to the unexpected, even
when staring right at it.
• When one develops "inattentional
blindness," as this effect is called, it
becomes easy to miss details when one
is not looking out for them.
• How would this impact: texting, driving,
walking in an urban area, listening to
music with headphones, talking on
phone while walking?
Where are
the notes?
Should Heinz steal the drug?
Should Heinz steal the drug?
THINK-WRITE-PAIR-SHARE
• Take 15 minutes to think about and answer
the questions that follow the reading.
• Be ready to share with a partner when time is
up.
What would happen if everyone felt they
could steal it – it would be anarchy.
That’s his wife, it’s his responsibility.
If he goes to jail; who will help her then?
He should only steal it for his wife, nobody
else
What if his wife needed more of the drug –
he ruined her chances of getting it and
she’ll die anyway
If this was morally right – then how come
everyone can’t get the medicine they need
without insurance? Is that moral?
If he doesn’t even love his wife, it wouldn’t
be worth it
What if the drug wasn’t effective and it
was all a waste of time?
It’s morally right to choose life over money
Would you be willing to risk:
-College
- Relationships
- Future - Job - Criticism
Lawrence Kohlberg: Stages of Moral Development
Children younger than 10 or 11 years think about
moral dilemmas one way; older children consider
them differently.
Younger children regard rules as absolute. They
believe that rules are handed down by adults or
by God . They can’t be changed.
The older child regards rules as subjective. He or
she understands that it is okay to change rules if
everyone agrees. Rules are not absolute but are
tools which humans use to cooperate with one
another.
Stage 6 is rare – that
all unjust rules
should be disobeyed
regardless of
personal risk:
Gandhi, Martin
Luther King, Nelson
Mandela, etc.
Closing Quote…
“We are all born as empty vessels which can be
shaped by moral values.”
-Jerry Springer