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Preliminary experiences teaching ethical reasoning methods for ICT
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2024
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Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.
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Students currently graduating from programmes on information and computing sciences face a challenging professional landscape. Society is increasingly aware of the social and environmental dilemmas and trade-offs that ICT development and usage entail. Ethical reasoning methods for ICT allow applying moral principles and frameworks to evaluate and guide the development and use of technology in a morally responsible and socially beneficial manner. We have been teaching some of these methods to master students for several years. In this paper, we describe how we do that, reflect on our experience, and deliver some advice to improve the learning experience. In the short term, we intend to facilitate the inclusion of ethical reasoning methods for ICT in information and computing science curricula. In the long term, we hope this will increase the industrial adoption of such methods, resulting on beneficial effects in society and the environment.