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Ethics Education in Context: A Case Study of Novel Ethics Activities for the CS Classroom

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Michael Skirpan,

Srinjita Bhaduri,

Tom YehAuthors Info & Claims

SIGCSE '18: Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Pages 940 - 945

https://doi.org/10.1145/3159450.3159573

Published: 21 February 2018 Publication History

Abstract

Our paper offers several novel activities for teaching ethics in the context of a computer science (CS) class. Rather than approaches that teach ethics as an isolated course, we outline and discuss multiple ethics education interventions meant to work in the context of an existing technical course. We piloted these activities in an Human Centered Computing course and found strong engagement and interest from our students in ethics topics without sacrificing core course material. Using a pre/post survey and examples from student assignments, we evaluate the impact of these interventions and discuss their relevance to other CS courses. We further make suggestions for embedding ethics in other CS education contexts.

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Index Terms

Ethics Education in Context: A Case Study of Novel Ethics Activities for the CS Classroom
1. Security and privacy
  1. Human and societal aspects of security and privacy
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
      2. Model curricula
    2. Computing profession
      1. Codes of ethics

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