Computers and Society Teaching Practices Page 3 March 1996 The Consequences of Computing: A Frameworkfor Teaching the Social and Ethical Impact of Computing (Executive Summary of the First Report from Project ImpactCS) Project lmpactCS Steering Committee revision to the Steering Committee at each stage of its development. The final version of the report was sent to five outside readers whose comments you will find at the end of this summary. This Executive Summary is provided in the C &S Newsletter so that SIGCAS members will be aware of the work of the ImpactCS Project and have access to the resources being developed by the project. A more complete article on the report appeared in the December 1995 issue of the Communicationsof theACA4f. THE CONCEPTUALFRAMEWORK INTRODUCTION Computer science has advanced rapidly in the last several decades, and this advance has necessitated the continual revision of the curriculum for an evolving discipline. One of the fundamental changes in computer science in the last decade is the realization that the context in which technology is used must be taken into account in its design, partly because of the ethical implications of its use, end partly because understanding the consequences of use
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