I have now lead some sessions of Coding for Good as part of my Service requirement in CAS. Through this experience, I have learnt some things and thus fulfilled some Learning Objectives.
LO3 – Planning and initiating activities was demonstrated when myself and the rest of the leadership team planned session before the Service even started. There were many challenges here as we had a large group of new students and needed to make them feel comfortable coming in. Another issue came up when the mentorship program we had planned from last year was not complete by those responsible. To overcome this difficulty in executing our original plan of introducing this program, we were able to come up with a temporary alternative for students to use online learning services such as Codecademy to learn for the time being. The outcome of the planning was overall a success as most students felt comfortable and were able to get launched in to whatever part of the Service they felt best suited them to begin with.
LO7 – Considering the Ethical Implications of actions came up when we had to decide whether we would work on a project involving the use of cameras and recordings. With privacy being a big issue, we realised that this was a potentially touchy issue. We have not made a full decision yet, but as of now, we have decided that the best decision making process was to defer to those who better understand the legal and ethical implications of cameras and privacy in the context of our campus in Singapore, and so we decided to write up a proposal and send it to Vice Principal Cathy Jones and have her help review our concerns.
