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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...
