Curriculum Library

Black Mirror Writers Room

Let your imagination run wild in this creative speculation activity that helps computing students think through possible consequences of technology.

Ethical Implications of the Adoption of Facial Recognition Technology

The objective of this activity is to introduce the role of ethics and social responsibility in technology and computing via a role-playing exercise that demonstrates to college students how new technology could impact the society. In this case, the role-playing activity simulates a city hall discuss

Human Contexts and Ethics Toolkit

The HCE Toolkit is a set of concepts and methods from Science, Technology, and Society (STS) and History selected to build understanding of the datafied world, helping students to identify where human power structures and value choices get built into technical work, and empowering them to discover h

Role Play: A City Decides On Self-Driving Buses

This scenario asks students (role-playing stakeholders at a committee meeting) to decide whether to introduce autonomous buses into a community.

Sustainability and Complexity

The goal of these lessons and assignments is to introduce students to the environmental impacts of computing.

Learning Outcomes and Assessments

Evaluating students' grasp of these different learning outcomes requires different forms of assessment

Engaging with Industry

Engaging with software engineers and others who work in industry is likely to surface issues that might not otherwise be top of mind for academic faculty.

Conversations about Responsible Computing and Employment Choices

Managing Resistance

While computing activities and labs incorporating ethical discussion/responsible computing or thinking are embraced by many of the students, there is a vocal group of students who do not feel that these themes are relevant to them, their training, and/or their future career goals.

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.