“This Applies to the Real World”: Student Perspectives on Integrating Ethics into a Computer Science Assignment

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In this episode I unpack Jarzemsky, Paup, and Fiesler’s (2023) publication titled “‘This Applies to the Real World’: Student Perspectives on Integrating Ethics into a Computer Science Assignment,” which explores student perspectives on an undergraduate ethics assignment in a CS class.

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00:00 Intro

01:28 Abstract

02:25 Intro to the paper

03:42 Creating the assignment

06:04 Evaluation methods

07:16 Finding: Strength of the assignment

08:20 Finding: Suggestions for improving the assignment

11:31 Finding: Opinions of integrating ethics

16:52 Finding: New assignment ideas

19:27 Discussion

24:35 Lingering questions + thoughts

24:43 What’s your preferred balance between thinking and doing in computer science?

26:06 What’s your own rationale for including (or excluding) ethics in your classes?

26:43 How might we connect ethics with other frameworks?

27:47 Outro