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Education It's About Power: A call to rethink ethics and equity in computing education.

The authors present their thoughts on the need for reform in computing education with particular attention given to the approach to ethics and equity. They call for more focus on how computing systems related to social inequality and hierarchy as well as encouraging all students to engage in the soc...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 62; no. 3; pp. 31 - 34
Main Authors: Vakil, Sepehr, Higgs, Jennifer
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Mar2019
Subjects:
Computer science education
Computer ethics
Education ethics
Educational change
Social hierarchies
Equality
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The authors present their thoughts on the need for reform in computing education with particular attention given to the approach to ethics and equity. They call for more focus on how computing systems related to social inequality and hierarchy as well as encouraging all students to engage in the sociopolitical and ethical aspects of computing.