Curriculum Library

Student Team Dynamics

teams need guidance from faculty members ranging from getting feedback from the course instructor on what kind of responsible computing intervention they feel comfortable incorporating in their course to a mentor making sure that the decisions that student teams make are compatible with power dynami

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.

Learning Outcomes and Assessments

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

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.

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.

Accreditation and Ethics

For undergraduate degrees that are accredited by ABET, assessing students’ learning of ethical aspects of computing will be required.

Access to Technology

Perhaps the most common computing solution students and technologists come up with to solve problems in real life is to “build an app.”