Reminder that this will begin in 5 minutes, in CSE2-371! On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 8:03 PM Matthew Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello! > > We will have Josh Hug from UC Berkeley joining us this week for a special > change seminar on Wednesday at 10:30 in CSE2-371. (There will not be a > speaker on Tuesday.) > > We hope to see you all there, but if you can’t make it we will send out a > livestream link before the talk on Wednesday as well! > > *Embedding Social Impact Awareness into Introductory CS Education* > > *Abstract* > Computer science and data science education provide our students with > tremendous power and responsibility immediately after graduation. Many of > our graduates find themselves embedded in organizations like Facebook, > Google, and Amazon that shape the destinies of billions of people around > the world. As university instructors, we do a great job providing the > technical foundation for our students' future careers, but I believe that > we could do a much better job helping students chart the broader narrative > arcs of their lives. > > Berkeley has long had a dedicated Social Implications of Computing Course. > In this class, we discuss the impacts of computing on all aspects of > society, and have students discuss and reflect on some of the big ethical > challenges faced by technical workers and entrepreneurs, e.g. free policies > on social media platforms. Recently, we have begun to integrate such bigger > picture discussions into our technical coursework. In this talk, I will > describe these efforts to integrate professional development, career goal > reflection, and ethics into three core technical courses in UC Berkeley's > CS and Data Science Majors, as well as the challenges we've faced along the > way. > > *Bio* > Josh Hug is an Associate Teaching Professor in Computer Science at UC > Berkeley. He completed his PhD in EECS at UC Berkeley in 2011, with a > primary focus on reverse engineering of bacterial signal processing systems > and bacterial decision making and a minor focus in education. After > Berkeley, he taught at Princeton from 2011-2014, where he helped develop > the Princeton Algorithms MOOC on Coursera. He joined the Berkeley EECS > faculty in 2014. He most frequently teaches Data Structures, Data Science, > and the Social Implications of Computing, and is the Equity and Inclusion > Officer for CS undergraduates. His primary research interest is in learning > at scale, especially tools and social structures for supporting struggling > students. Before UC Berkeley, he was born, raised, and went to college in > Texas where it was very hot and there were many terrible bugs. Prior to his > time in the Lone Star State, he was a dispersion of random molecules, > unassembled into any greater being. > _______________________________________________ > change mailing list > [email protected] > https://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change >
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