In the process of technology acceptance or rejection, the educational community can have a major impact on if and how quickly a technology is accepted. The Midwest Biotechnology Consortium focuses on K-12 biology, agriculture, family, and consumer science teachers. The objective of the education component of this proposal is to provide educators and students with fact-based print and electronic information and interactive learning opportunities to facilitate an examination of the science, economic, ethical, and social impacts of agricultural biotechnology products.
Students face a variety of difficult ethical questions.
A major objective of the Midwest Biotechnology Consortium is to train educators how to incorporate ethical issues into classes. Bioethics Institutes will be held each summer for faculty wishing to explore these questions.