Class Presentations
Overview
This assignment is a chance for you to research an ethical, legal, or social issue in computing that interests you and a partner. Your team will find a case or situation involving an ethical, legal, or social issue or dilemma as it relates to computing, conduct research and present your analysis to the class.
Learning Objectives
- Discover ethical, legal, or social issues pertinent to one's future profession
- Gain nontechnical research skills
- Implement a structured approach to addressing ethical, legal, or social issues in computing
- Understand why professions have their own code of ethics
- Understand key elements and important steps for preparing an oral presentation
Selection of Issue
Teams are to select an issue to research and present analysis of. You should try to focus on a particular situation, within a broader issue. Suppose your team wishes to research data privacy issues. Then pick a particular circumstance (say, Google's attempt to hide Google+'s data breach from law makers last Fall) research and analyze. The broad issue is much to large to tackle in a 15 minute presentation.
Presentation
Your team's presentation should be no longer than 20 minutes and should allow for a short QA or class discussion session. Each member of the team must be present and speak during the presentation.
You should at cover the following points:
- Brief overview of the issue so that your audience can follow your analysis
- The analysis of the issue
- The reasoning behind your analysis
- Citation of your research sources
You and your partner (or solo if you wish) should let me know as early as possible when and on what topic you'd like to present. I will do my best to fit each group to the course schedule.
Reminder: You probably shouldn't read directly from note cards or the screen. It's good practice to become expert enough at a topic to give a talk on it without just reading about it to an audience.