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Name: Good Computing Reports for Computer Ethics
ID: m13756
Language: English (en)
Summary: This module present a version of the Social Impact Statement exercise developed by Charles Huff in "Practical Guidance for Teaching the Social Impact Statement (SIS)" from the Proceedings of the 1996 Symposium on Copmputers and the Quality of Life. This adaptation has been successfully used at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez for three years. Students, working in small groups of 4 - 5, select a computing system to study in detail with the objective of identifying and mitigating ethical and social problems that stem from conflicts in values embedded in the system and its surrounding societal context. This module is based on the assumptions that computing systems embody values and that there is an analogy between designing and problem solving in ethics. This module is being developed as a part of an NSF-funded project, "Collaborative Development of Ethics Across the Curriculum Resources and Sharing of Best Practices," NSF SES 0551779.
Subject: Humanities
Keywords: Computer Ethics, Ethics, Ethics and Technology Transfer, Good Computing Reports
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 2.0)
Authors: William Frey (wfrey@uprm.edu)
Copyright Holders: William Frey (wfrey@uprm.edu)
Maintainers: William Frey (wfrey@uprm.edu)
Version: 1.5 (history)
Created: Aug 5, 2006 3:40 pm GMT-5
Revised: May 30, 2007 10:45 am GMT-5

Version History

Version: 1.5 May 30, 2007 10:45 am GMT-5 by William Frey
Changes: 
Reference and link added to Carolyn Whitbeck's description of the analogy between ethics and design published at Online Ethics
Version: 1.4 Mar 2, 2007 8:23 am US/Central by William Frey
Changes: 
Updated abstract
Version: 1.3 Nov 17, 2006 3:00 pm US/Central by William Frey
Changes: 
Changed formating of GCR items 7, 8, and 9.  Added presentation evaluation forms and team member evaluation forms.  Added three supplimental links to cnx modules, ethics of teamwork, three frameworks, and rubrics.
Version: 1.2 Nov 6, 2006 5:39 am US/Central by William Frey
Changes: 
Redid table on ethical issues associated with the collection of data and the preparation of GC report.  Formal, formatting changes with no substantive content changes
Version: 1.1 Aug 5, 2006 8:13 pm GMT-5 by William Frey
Changes: 
Stylistic changes due to problems of converting table on the ethics of doing GCRs.

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