In this class, I have three weeks set aside for students to pick an emerging technology and discuss it and ethical dilemmas that might occur from those technologies. There are a variety of topics you may want to talk about including:

  • Artificial Intelligence in HR roles
  • Technology in Policing
  • Artificial Intelligence and Algorithms in the Stock Market
  • “Green Energy”
  • and many, many more. This is truly a your choice.

We shall discuss, and students are expected to research, and provide thoughts both pro and con on a subject. Now, you might think, for example, what is wrong with “Green Energy” How could that be an ethical issue. I encourage you to watch the video below as a great example of this very issue.

Student Choices was originally found on Access 2 Learn

Assistant Professor

Walter Wimberly is an Assistant Professor at a regional college in Tennessee, teaching Computer Science in the Software Engineering track. He works as a student advisor, oversees curriculum changes, develops new courses, and manages the advisory panel.
Walter taught full time for about 7 years, before going back into “industry” as a full stack Software Developer for a dozen years. There he focused on web based projects coding in JavaScript/jQuery and utilizing the Bootstrap CSS Framework on the front-end, and coding in PHP, ASP/ASP.Net, SQL on the back-end.

Since he loves teaching, he taught as an adjunct web and digital media classes for eight (8) years, while working in industry, and has since returned to teaching full time.

He has been married for over 25 years, and is father to several special needs boys. As such, he is working on some projects to help others who have special needs to be self-sufficient, and support the care givers of those with special needs. Check out his Autism blog for more info.

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