D&T: Top Topics 🧏🏽🧏🏿🧏

Now that I’ve taught D&T for a few years (and have spent decades thinking about D&T πŸ™ƒ), here are some of the top topics that come up again and again for many kinds of experiences in many kinds of D&T fields. I will start fleshing these out into resource guides… during and after this semester. I welcome your feedback!

  • Diversity and Technology Basics
    • Speak Your Truth, Check Your Privilege
  • Ethical Data Collection and “Human Subjects
    • subtopic: medical bias in Marvel Comics

  • Workplace Codes
    • Good Codes, Bad Codes
    • The Law
    • Tech Worker RPG
      • strikes & solidarity
      • ethics vs. law
      • inclusion rider
  • Language, Style and Sensitivity
    • subtopic: Cultural Competence Checklist
    • subtopic: Emojis, Stickers, Avatars & Inclusion
  • Microaggressions
    • MicroAggressors: The Game
    • subtopic: identity bias in pop culture
  • One Zone Trainings (NYU-specific)
    • Wheel of Zones
    • LGBTQ+ Terms & Concepts