9 Wednesday, January 17, 2007
‘Should robots have rights’?. 1
We will set up our blog first. Go to http://inside.dwight.edu/moodle/ and find your class (9) under technology courses.
Blogs will only be viewable by your class here at Dwight (it is not on the Intranet not the Internet). It will serve several purposes; working in an online community, you will upload your picture, which will help me associate you with your work, and we will have a portfolio of your work.
NOTE: all written work in your blog should be written in academic style with proper spelling, grammar, punctuation, referenced if you are using another source[1] in your work, and in well thought out sentences and paragraphs. Emoticons, slang and abbreviations, unless previously explained in your writing should be avoided.
Today’s exercise will give me some indication of where we are with certain
skills. Next week we will begin webpage design.
1. Open Word to write your ‘essay’ in.
2. Find at least three Internet sites that deal with
the question about robot’s rights. One reference must be different from what I
have quoted below under ‘Read’.
3. Take notes from each site and save them in your Word document as dot points
from which you will write a short essay.
4. Write at least three hundred -fifty words (use your word count in
'Tools" > 'Word Count') on what your opinion is regarding robot’s
rights, be sure you refer to the article that you read (as footnotes).
i. Have a heading for each paragraph using Heading 1
for the title of your essay, such as “robots should have rights” or “robots
should not have rights” etc. and Heading 2 for a heading for each paragraph.
5. Reference your information properly.
6. Email me your work as an attachment at tneuage@dwight.edu
7. Copy your word document into your blog.
8. Key to log in is 9
"The Legal Rights of Robots"[2]
and Phil McNally and Sohail
Inayatullah's article, "The Rights of Robots[3]
plus do a search for one other article which you will reference.
Wherever you refer to an
idea or words from what you have read be sure to footnote[4]
it in your text.
[1] Anything you ‘take’ from the web must be referenced by date you downloaded or viewed it and source.
[2] Freitas,
Robert, Jr. "The Legal Rights of Robots". Student Lawyer
13(January 1985):54-56. Online at
http://www.rfreitas.com/Astro/LegalRightsOfRobots.htm
Viewed, 1/10/07.
[3] McNally,
Phil and Inayatullah, Sohail. "The Rights of Robots:
Technology, Culture and Law in the 21ST Century". On line at
http://www.metafuture.org/Articles/TheRightsofRobots.htm.
Viewed, 1/10/07.
[4] Insert > footnote as reference it as above.