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.

Hardware Backdoors and Responsibility

module focuses on hardware backdoors, which allow agents to bypass normal security measures on a device.

Health and Artificial Intelligence

One in five adults living in the United States uses fitness trackers and health-related applications daily. With this continuously growing statistic, arise ethical concerns of big data collection, and how our fitness data can be used.

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.

Algorithmic fairness

Austin's cake cutting algorithm as an example of an inherently fair algorithm.

Choosing Computing Courses

Introducing responsible computing material in required courses has the advantage of reaching every student in a computing program.

Conversations about Responsible Computing and Employment Choices

Learning Outcomes and Assessments

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

Service Learning

Service learning creates a sense of community and citizenship among students and it also allows students to develop an understanding and appreciation for people from backgrounds different from their own.

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.