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Posts from SIGCSE: Can students re-engineer? No.
Eli Blevis makes the point that we have to make it cool to want to own a retro iPod. He doesn’t mean a new piece of equipment made to look old, but that we keep our old favourites alive for a lot longer than is the current trend. beyond the switch in marketing and fashion, […]
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Posts from SIGCSE: Cyberporn
March 26, 2008
Joe Oldham (pdf) has a different take on introducing ethics to computing students an issue that is “necessary but problematic”. Instead of covering the theory he uses a topical approach: cyberporn. He sees this approach as a solution to a problem where one option to include ethics is the blending into technical courses which has […]
Posts from SIGCSE: Integrating ethics through mock trials
March 26, 2008
Roxanne Canosa and Joan Lucas discuss ways of integrating ethics into computing teaching (pdf). This is increasingly important for computer science educators as several ABET criteria relate to ethics. They use a system of mock trials as a teaching technique. They see such trial as like a debate but is more structured; like a case […]
Posts from SIGCSE: snapshot of ethics in computing programmes
March 26, 2008
Carol Spradling has done a survey of how undergraduate computing programmes incorporate ethics (pdf). Of her respondents (36% of 700), 88% include social and professional issues as part of their computing degree. It is primarily taught by computer science faculty, most of whom have had no special training (77%). She is pleased that the decision […]
Computing central to Krupp’s greatest race of all time
March 21, 2008
I happened on Fred Krupp giving a talk from his new book: Earth the Sequel (my mpg at from archive.org) at Powells this week (I was in Portland, now back in Dunedin). He takes a good news approach to sustainability – not good that climate change is happening – rather the opportunity presented. He says […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability, futurecasting
Computing for Sustainability 
March 26, 2008
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