Bibliothèque du programme d’études

Conversations about Responsible Computing and Employment Choices

Making Lessons Stick

By any given class only needing to grapple with one or two concepts deeply, it increases the likelihood of more faculty buy-in as well as helping the lessons stick.

Structured Ways of Thinking about Computing and Society

In order to provide students with a basis for ongoing development and continuous learning, you need to give them structured ways of thinking about computing and society.

Difficult Conversations

By including meaningful, hard conversations about these topics, one can facilitate student learning on issues that will only become more urgent as time goes on.

Discussing Justice and Equity

Encourage students to examine what they think and what aspects of their identity, experience, and training contributes to their perspective.

Effective Talking Points for Different Audiences

Talking points help with reframing ethics to address concerns people may have but are not articulated and prevent fuller engagement.

Hiring, Promotion, and Tenure

Polling Data, Binary Trees, and Heaps

Topics: recursive binary tree design, array-based heaps

Role Play: An Academic Institution Decides on an AI Admissions App

A technology company has approached a state university about an app that is in the testing phase of development. Before deciding on whether to use the app, state and university policies stipulate that the convening of a committee must occur in any situation involving the selection of a vendor whose

Talking About Unanticipated Consequences

he topic of this section is more like (but also importantly different from) a logical error that the programmers didn’t catch: the program will run, but the fact that its results are wrong will not be immediately apparent.