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Posts from SIGCSE: Integrating ethics through mock trials
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
High level praise for Otago Polytechnic’s education for sustainability
March 16, 2008
Big names have been complimenting Otago Polytechnic on our “every graduate” approach to sustainability. I’m in still in Portland, so here’s the ODT‘s take: OTAGO Polytechnic’s decision to weave ‘‘education for sustainability’’ into all its courses has won high praise from Green MP Metiria Turei and Dr Morgan Williams, the former Parliamentary Commissioner for the […]
Posted in: Education for Sustainability, Otago Polytechnic
Posts from SIGCSE: bring on Alice 3
March 15, 2008
Wanda Dann, Dennis Cosgrove and co are hosting several hundred academics at the Alice tea-party today. We’ve used Alice for several years now in our introductory programming courses. Dale and Patricia have carefully measured learning outcomes (pdf). They, along with others, have found that students can get distracted by the building of characters (joining legs […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability, sigcse
Computing for Sustainability 
March 26, 2008
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