Ben Shapiro, Ph.D., assistant professor in Learning Sciences, co-authored a paper forthcoming in proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 23), to be held April 23-28, 2023, in Hamburg, Germany. The paper is titled “Moment to Moment”: A Situated View of Teaching Ethics from the Perspective of Computing Ethics Teaching Assistants.” The Mozilla Foundation’s Responsible Computer Science Challenge supports this project.
How does this publication help with your research goals and/or interests?
This work contributes to collaborative efforts between our new Center for Computer and Teacher Education at Georgia State University and Georgia Tech to develop more ethical and responsible computer science education in university contexts.
Can you summarize your topic?
Recently, there has been a surge of work to develop more ethical and responsible computer science education in higher education. Yet, one group largely missing from these discussions is computing ethics teaching assistants, who are increasingly involved in ethics instruction.
This paper shares a qualitative research project to understand the perspectives of computing ethics teaching assistants working in two very different university contexts. Results from this study offer valuable insights into how computing ethics is taught in different university contexts and provide recommendations to effectively support computing ethics teaching assistants in different university settings.
Are there other people to be credited?
Co-authors include Cass Zegura, Ellen Zegura, Jason Borenstein and Robert MacDonald all of whom are at Georgia Tech.