Teaching Ethics

Readings

• Tom Abate, “How the Computer Science Department is teaching ethics to its students”, 2020.
• Shashi Krishna, “Teaching Ethical Computing”, 2020.
• Robert Florida, “Weaving Ethics Into Columbia’s Computer Science Curriculum”, 2019.
• Paul Karoff, “Embedding ethics in computer science curriculum”, 2019.
• Jimmy Wu, “Optimize What?”, 2019.
• (Watch) MIT, “Teaching Ethics and Policy in Computer Science”, 2019.
• Kay G. Schulze and Frances S. Grodzinsky, “Teaching ethical issues in computer science: what worked and what didn’t”, 1996.

Discussion Questions

1. What do you envision as a “sufficient” ethics requirement for Computer Science majors?
2. Describe two successful and two unsuccessful ways of teaching or incorporating ethics in Computer Science.
3. Provide a brief overview of a case study on embedding ethics into a Computer Science curriculum that you read. What insights and lessons can we draw from it?

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