Encouraging engagement in an IT ethics course by fostering creativity
Elizabeth V. Howard · Journal of computing sciences in colleges · 2007
Developing and teaching a course in Information Technology Ethics poses a number of challenges for the computing educator. One of these challenges is to invite and encourage student engagement in the course material. In traditional computing courses, students complete hands-on technical projects incorporating concepts from the course material and students often invest deeply in these projects. In an IT ethics course that is reading, discussion, and writing-intensive, the solution to involving students is not so clear. One approach that I used to encourage student engagement was to foster creativity in their assignments. In this paper, I will share the strategies that I used to foster creativity as well as several examples of my students' resulting creativity.