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#BlackMirrorWritersRoom is a teaching exercise for ethical speculation in computing. @shamikalashawn & I interviewed instructors who have used it, and came away with great insights about benefits, challenges, and cautions in this new #SIGCSE2022 paper! 🧵 cfiesler.medium.com/the-black-mirr…
First, it turns out that (even though sometimes they're shocked to be asked to do it!) the opportunity to be creative and think through ethical issues is really well received by students, even in otherwise technical classes. And what they come up with is amazing!
Though sometimes it was more challenging for instructors to implement the exercise without a lot of scaffolding for the ethical content, and also of course not all students have the same cultural context for scifi or Black Mirror. We're working on helping with these problems...
This thread is for live-tweeting the ethics session at #SIGCSE2021. FIVE papers at @SIGCSE_TS this year about ethics in computer science education! 🧵
First up: "How Students in Computing-Related Majors Distinguish Social Implications of Technology" by Diandra Prioleau et al. at University of Florida.
They presented students with scenarios about AI technology (e.g. recidivism algorithms)...
They presented students with scenarios about AI technology (e.g. recidivism algorithms)...
... and found that their participants could spot social implications, but frequently missed issues of systemic discrimination. But surprisingly: About half of students had never heard of these issues, which points to a gap in computing curriculum. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/34…
In a few hours (evening for me, morning in India!) I'm giving a keynote for the COMPUTE conference on integrating ethics into computer science education. Including some links in this thread to papers and other things I will reference in that talk! Perfect for #CSEdWeek2020. :)
First: Why integrate ethics into technical CS classes? It's one way to change the culture towards recognizing that ethics is an integral part of the practice of computing, and not a specialization. howwegettonext.com/what-our-tech-…
Read more about our efforts to include ethical context in intro programming assignments in this forthcoming #SIGCSE2021 paper: cmci.colorado.edu/~cafi5706/SIGC…
A plea to everyone out there finishing up the syllabus for your fall computing-related class: put some ethics on it. This is a thread to tell you why you should do that and to offer some tips on how. Massive cultural change within computing starts with a single syllabus!
First, why is it so important that ethics is in technical computing classes and not just one required ethics class? Because ethics should be part of the process of DOING computing, and that's how we should teach it. Here's my detailed argument on that: howwegettonext.com/what-our-tech-…
I've heard from lots people about challenges in doing ethics integration- from "I don't know enough about ethics" to "I don't have time for more content in class" to "The students don't think it's important" to "It's too difficult to grade." I think these things can be addressed.
Today, we're announcing the first winners of the #ResponsibleCS Challenge.
@OmidyarNetwork, @mozilla, @SchmidtFutures & @craignewmark Philanthropies are awarding $2.4 million to 17 initiatives that integrate ethics into undergraduate computer science courses.
@OmidyarNetwork, @mozilla, @SchmidtFutures & @craignewmark Philanthropies are awarding $2.4 million to 17 initiatives that integrate ethics into undergraduate computer science courses.
The winners’ proposed curricula are novel:
In-class role-playing games to explore the impact of technology on society; embedded philosophy experts & social scientists in CS classes; “red teams” that probe students’ projects for possible negative societal impacts; and more.
In-class role-playing games to explore the impact of technology on society; embedded philosophy experts & social scientists in CS classes; “red teams” that probe students’ projects for possible negative societal impacts; and more.
Learn more about today's 17 winners and the #ResponsibleCS Challenge: blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/04/3…
