Curriculum Library

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Inclusive HCI Exercise

Meta-goals include asking better questions an asking them more frequently.

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.