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Assignments that Blend Ethics and Technology

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Stacy A. Doore,

Casey Fiesler,

Michael S. Kirkpatrick,

Evan Peck,

Mehran SahamiAuthors Info & Claims

SIGCSE '20: Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Pages 475 - 476

https://doi.org/10.1145/3328778.3366994

Published: 26 February 2020 Publication History

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With the 2018 revision of the ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, there is a growing interest in how computer science faculty can integrate these principles into the education of future practitioners. This special session illustrates one approach by highlighting assignments that blend ethics and technology. These assignments can be used in a variety of courses, including CS1, CS2, and later courses. Presenters will provide an overview of each assignment and gather feedback from the audience. All materials, including descriptions, starter files, and guidelines for instructors, will be published at https://ethics.acm.org/SIGCSE2020.

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Emanuelle Burton, Judy Goldsmith, and Nicholas Mattei. 2018. How to Teach Computer Ethics Through Science Fiction. Commun. ACM, Vol. 61, 8 (July 2018), 54--64. https://doi.org/10.1145/3154485

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ACM Committee on Professional Ethics (COPE). 2018. ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct. https://ethics.acm.org/.

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Nick Parlante, Julie Zelenski, Benjamin Dicken, Ben Stephenson, Jeffrey L. Popyack, William M. Mongan, Kendall Bingham, Diane Horton, David Liu, and Allison Obourn. 2019. Nifty Assignments. In Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '19). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1230--1231. https://doi.org/10.1145/3287324.3293871

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Assignments that Blend Ethics and Technology
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
    1. Collaborative learning
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Model curricula
    2. Computing profession
      1. Codes of ethics

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SIGCSE '20: Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

February 2020

1502 pages

ISBN:9781450367936

DOI:10.1145/3328778

General Chairs:
Jian Zhang
Texas Woman's University, USA
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Mark Sherriff
University of Virginia, USA
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Sarah Heckman
North Carolina State University, USA
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Pamela Cutter
Kalamazoo College, USA
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Alvaro Monge
California State University, Long Beach, USA

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