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Greetings, ethi{CS} project community!
As the end of the school year approaches (only one more Monday on our school's calendar...not that we are counting), we look ahead to the summer and opportunities to recharge as well as chances to (re)connect with this community.
We’re excited to share news that we are collaborating with Blakeley H. Payne, formerly of the MIT Media Lab, to offer ideas and inspiration to help you bring conversations on the humanities, technology, and design justice into your CS classrooms—keep an eye on the Tang Institute blog for her first post!
This July, we are grateful to be part of the Connected Learning Summit’s symposium, "Bringing Politics and Power into Computing Education." The ethi{CS} project team, along with nine other groups, will discuss how we can engage students with a curriculum that focuses on politics, history, and ethics in the study of computing sciences. A special thanks to Mia Shaw (who you might remember from the 2020 ethi{CS} summer project conference) for spearheading this effort!
Speaking of our summer conference, we are very happy to share news that we will offer a conference again this summer, led by our very own Michelle Ciccone; a sneak peek into this year’s conference and the link to register are available below. We hope you will consider taking part, and please share your ideas on how to make this conference a success! We’d love to hear from you!
—Kiran, Nick, and the rest of the ethi{CS} project team
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Save the Date: the ethi{CS} summer project returns!We’re excited to announce this year’s ethi{CS} summer project, a conference that brings together educators who are passionate about teaching the next generation of conscientious coders and consumers of technology. This year’s conference will be led by Michelle Ciccone, graduate student at University of Massachusetts Amherst. Here, we share details on the conference and the link to register. Join us!
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Embedding Ethics into Robotics: Part II
As we prepare our students to become future designers and consumers of technology, it is imperative that we embed ethical analysis into our curriculum. In her blog post, the second of a three-part series, robotics instructor and Tang Institute fellow Carol Artacho shares her guiding principles for this work and encourages educators to get started on their own journey.
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Confronting Biases in Insurance Modeling
In his first time working with the ethi{CS} project team, mathematics, statistics, and computer science instructor Pat Farrell shares a lesson discussing the ethics of insurance premiums: who should pay what amount for car insurance? Why? Students discuss, read from Cathy O’Neil’s Weapons of Math Destruction, and then implement a strategy.
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Reviewing Data Feminism
Data Feminism by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein offers a thorough introduction to a newly emerging field of the same name, in which practitioners seek to blend the knowledge and skills of intersectional feminism with the world of data science. In this book review, Tang Institute fellow Nick Zufelt offers concrete strategies for how this book, or excerpts from it, can be connected to any number of moments in computer science or related classrooms.
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What We're Reading
When we weren’t busy reading Data Feminism (which deserves another plug in this section!), we found two other interesting resources to share:
- In this blog post, Shana White argues that we don't need more CS curricula; instead, we need to provide more support and resources to allow CS teachers to do equity work.
- As a complement to White's piece above, Ariam Mogos and Laura McBain of Stanford's d.school offer concrete steps in their EdSurge article on how we, as educators, can address equity issues in the CS classroom.
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