Ethics of monitoring
Debate whether wearables and continuous monitoring help or harm patients, and defend your view.
Written CER (3-5 sentences) arguing whether continuous wearable monitoring helps or harms patients, with a reference to patient autonomy in the reasoning.
- 1Do thisDebate whether wearables and continuous monitoring help or harm patients, and defend your view.
- 2Use this resource
- 3Submit thisCER: Written CER (3-5 sentences) arguing whether continuous wearable monitoring helps or harms patients, with a reference to patient autonomy in the reasoning.
- 4Submit it here
- 1CMSD website. Go to clevelandmetroschools.org and click the Clever button.
- 2Clever. Clever opens. Sign in if it asks.
- 3Microsoft (district) login. Use your district Microsoft account (the one for school).
- 4Schoology. Open Schoology, then your class, then Assignments, and find the file named below.
The file to submit is named: Principles of Biomedical Technology (Principles of Biomedical Science) › Unit 2.1 Clinical Data: Routine bloodwork, chronic disease monitoring, telehealth, wearables, remote monitoring. › CEROpen Schoology
Read to prepare for today
Vetted sources picked for today's question. Skim these before you take a position or start the work, so your argument and evidence are grounded.
- CER:
- Claim, Evidence, Reasoning — make a claim, back it with evidence, explain your reasoning.
- SOP:
- Standard Operating Procedure — the exact steps to follow (especially in a lab).
- Tracker:
- Your PLTW progress log where you record completed evidence.
- myPLTW:
- The PLTW course site where you do the online activities — you open it through Schoology.
Minute-by-minute · 80-minute block
💡 Big idea: Continuous monitoring generates more data, but more data does not automatically mean better health outcomes; the benefit depends on how the data is interpreted and used.
- 0:00Hook: show a real smartwatch alert that turned out to be a false alarm vs. one that caught a real arrhythmia
- 0:10Introduce patient autonomy concept; contrast with beneficence (what the doctor thinks is best)
- 0:20Read the ethics prompt; list one benefit and one harm of continuous monitoring
- 0:32Small-group debate: connect position to patient autonomy
- 0:54Individual CER writing: position, evidence, reasoning
- 1:10Share two CERs; preview Tuesday bloodwork content
- • Smartwatches can now detect atrial fibrillation, track blood oxygen, and estimate sleep quality. Does that make people healthier? Or does it make them obsess over numbers that do not actually mean much?
- • This is the ethics of data. The technology exists. The question is whether using it improves patient outcomes or whether it creates anxiety, drives unnecessary medical visits, and shifts decision-making from doctors to algorithms.
- • Patient autonomy means you have the right to choose whether you are monitored. But does a patient who opts out of monitoring get worse care? That is where the tension is.
- • Pick a side and defend it. Wednesday we will work with actual longitudinal data and see what trends look like over time.
- 1Read the prompt: Does constant health monitoring make us healthier or more anxious?
- 2List one benefit and one harm of continuous wearable monitoring.
- 3Choose a side and connect it to patient autonomy.
- 4Argue your claim in your group with one reason and one example.
- 5Post a written CER with your position and reasoning.
- • I can weigh benefits and harms of health monitoring.
- • I can defend a position with reasoning.
- • Patient autonomy is the right of a competent individual to make informed decisions about their own healthcare, including the decision to be monitored or not.
- • Wearable data can detect early warning signs, improve chronic disease management, and reduce emergency visits, but it can also generate false alarms and increase health anxiety.
- • Data from wearables is self-reported or algorithmically interpreted, which introduces accuracy limitations not present in clinically validated instruments.
Your PLTW work today
Unit 2.1 Clinical Data: Routine bloodwork, chronic disease monitoring, telehealth, wearables, remote monitoring. · Ethics of monitoring
Day 1 of this lesson. Open this exact section in myPLTW (reached through Schoology), then do the work below.
Do this: Log in to myPLTW and open the Lesson 2.1 Talk to Your Doc / Lesson 2.2 Decoding a Diagnosis clinical-data section. Read the unit overview before Tuesday.
Mark the clinical-data unit overview task complete in myPLTW.
You finished the vital-signs work in Lesson 2.1 last week. Today starts the chronic-monitoring and bloodwork phase. The overview reading should be done by the end of today.
myPLTW screenshot showing the clinical-data overview task marked complete.
All PLTW activities are completed inside the PLTW course environment — this page only gives direction. Submit producibles on Schoology.
Today's PLTW tracker
Check things off as you work, then submit. This tells Mr. Mendoza how you're doing so he can help the class. It does not replace turning in your producible on Schoology.
Use the code Mr. Mendoza gave you, not your name. Saved on this device.
Unit 2.1 Clinical Data: Routine bloodwork, chronic disease monitoring, telehealth, wearables, remote monitoring. · Ethics of monitoring
Log in to myPLTW and open the Lesson 2.1 Talk to Your Doc / Lesson 2.2 Decoding a Diagnosis clinical-data section. Read the unit overview before Tuesday.
You finished the vital-signs work in Lesson 2.1 last week. Today starts the chronic-monitoring and bloodwork phase. The overview reading should be done by the end of today.
This is how Mr. Mendoza sees the class keeping pace with PLTW. Be honest, it only helps if it is accurate.
🎯 Debate whether wearables and continuous monitoring help or harm patients, and defend your view.
- Read the prompt: Does constant health monitoring make us healthier or more anxious?
- List one benefit and one harm of continuous wearable monitoring.
- Choose a side and connect it to patient autonomy.
- Argue your claim in your group with one reason and one example.
- Post a written CER with your position and reasoning.
CER: Written CER (3-5 sentences) arguing whether continuous wearable monitoring helps or harms patients, with a reference to patient autonomy in the reasoning.
Submit on SchoologyUpload by 11:29 PM for full credit.
| Task | Who |
|---|---|
| Read the prompt: Does constant health monitoring make us healthier or more anxious? | _______ |
| List one benefit and one harm of continuous wearable monitoring. | _______ |
| Choose a side and connect it to patient autonomy. | _______ |
| Argue your claim in your group with one reason and one example. | _______ |
| Post a written CER with your position and reasoning. | _______ |
Working solo? Put your own name in "Who" for every row.
- I can weigh benefits and harms of health monitoring.
- I can defend a position with reasoning.
Resources & readings
Hand-picked materials for this lesson. Class file items open the document directly; the rest are vetted readings and interactives from other biomedical programs.
Lab & supplies
WebXam practice
Cumulative WebXam review
A quick mixed-review pulling questions from earlier units plus today, so the WebXam material stays fresh.
Where this leads — careers
What today's skills lead to. These are real health-science careers this course builds toward. Tap one to see, on the US Department of Labor's O*NET site, what the job actually involves, what it pays, and how fast it is growing.
What to do if you were absent
Watch the recorded monitoring-ethics prompt and post a written CER on whether continuous wearable monitoring helps or harms patients.
John Carroll Philosophy for ChildrenThen submit your CER on Schoology.
Class still runs. Complete the online activity above (it's self-guided). Need the concept taught without a teacher? Use this authoritative explainer:
MedlinePlus: Laboratory Tests- CompleteEvery required part of the artifact is present, nothing left blank.
- AccurateThe science and the data are correct and match the evidence.
- Scientific reasoningYou explain your claim with evidence and reasoning (CER), not just an answer.
- Professional communicationClear, organized, labeled, and written the way a clinician or scientist would.
- SubmittedTurned in the right way (Schoology for routine work) and confirmed.
Drop your Tue, Oct 6, 2026 · Ethics of monitoring here. Use a clear file name (your initials + project). Routine work still goes to Schoology (via the CMSD portal).
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