This Birds of a Feather will begin with a high-level overview of the SIGCSE Reads 2024 books and then quickly move to discussion about mentoring students in the era of large language models and ChatGPT, including how students may value the curriculum differently, how learning outcomes may change, and how we can support students and alumni/ae as they work with rapidly changing job and learning expectations. We expect that many of the sessions at SIGCSE will address the radical shifts in learning outcomes and curricular changes due to LLMs. We will not focus on the particulars of these changes, but rather on mentoring in this time with Sister Resisters: Mentoring Black Women on Campus by Janie Victoria Ward and Tracy L. Robinson-Wood as a resource. How do we guide our students through the curriculum upheaval triggered by shifting learning outcomes? How do we help them prepare for the new instantiation of computer science?

This special session furthers the work associated with SIGCSE Reads and the growing community of SIGCSE members who connect to each other through science fiction. This session extends the experiences of earlier sessions by addressing the global and cultural experiences that our students will face in the computing profession through examining works of fiction. The work of the special session will involve diving into the cultural context of this year's SIGCSE Reads stories with discussion about how this experience can be translated to the classroom, with the goal of better preparing students to consider their computing degrees and careers in a pluralistic, global, equitable and just context.

This special session furthers the work associated with SIGCSE Reads and the growing community of SIGCSE members who connect to each other through science fiction. This session extends the experiences of earlier sessions by incorporating a new ethical framework, capability ethics, that supports analysis at a societal level rather than a personal level. Updated materials will be available so that the exercise can be translated to other classrooms. Building on an initial description of ethical frameworks and how they have been used with earlier SIGCSE Reads stories, the exercise will be followed by discussion about new stories that provide additional challenges to both teachers and students, with the goal of better preparing students to consider their computing degrees and careers in a pluralistic, global, equitable and just context.

This special session furthers the work associated with SIGCSE Reads and the growing community of SIGCSE members who connect to each other through science fiction. The goal of this session is to provide a practical experience addressing one of the five common goals presented previously: a learning experience for participants in how science fiction can be used in computing classrooms to teach ethics and develop CS students' facility for considering ethical situations with deeper critical thinking. Materials will be available so that the exercise can be translated to other classrooms. By providing this experience in a virtual format, participants will be able to translate it to their own setting, whether virtual or face-to-face. Building on an initial description of ethical frameworks, the exercise will be followed by discussion about ways to adapt, adjust and modify the exercise to incorporate other fictional works, to fit into a variety of courses, or to address different levels of learners.

This special session furthers the work associated with SIGCSE Reads and the growing community of SIGCSE members who connect to each other through science fiction. The session starts with a practical experience addressing one of the five common goals presented previously: a learning experience for participants in how science fiction can be used in computing classrooms to teach ethics and develop CS students' facility for considering ethical situations with deeper critical thinking. Materials will be available so that the exercise can be translated to other classrooms. This will be followed by a significant Q & A session with one of this year's authors, Hugo Award winner David D. Levine, whose short story "Damage" addresses questions of ethical decision making by an AI.

This special session will allow discussion of how many common goals of CS educators (conveying core CS concepts, creating community for our students, discussing ethics, etc.) can be furthered through the use of literature in CS courses. We will present five goals which are common in CS education, and discuss how incorporating literature relates to them. We will present small case studies showing concrete examples of assignments and courses which have successfully utilized literature in common, core CS courses. We will showcase a Q & A with author Naomi Kritzer, winner of the 2016 Hugo Award for her short story "Cat Pictures Please".

Many universities and students look for opportunities to volunteer and contribute to their communities in a variety of ways. However, a host of factors including time, expense, and duration effect instructor adoption, student commitment and student perception of volunteer tasks. In CS curriculums, volunteer work most often takes the form of projects for local charities through a specific course (e.g., a senior capstone or software engineering course) or work in local elementary schools teaching younger students to program. The purpose of this talk is to stimulate a conversation about low-cost, low-commitment ways to incorporate service learning via micro-volunteering and virtual-volunteering into CS classes as pedagogically relevant assignments. Micro-volunteering refers to volunteer actions which take little time (usually less than 30 minutes) and have no expectation of continued involvement. Virtual-volunteering is defined as volunteering which a person can complete via the Internet from any location. While there exist many opportunities for semester-long, service learning-based projects in upper level courses, there is a lack of practical project ideas and assignments which could be incorporated into courses of all levels on a smaller scale. The goal of this project is to develop concrete assignments and short projects which incorporate micro- and virtual-volunteer opportunities in a variety of core Computer Science courses including introductory and non-major courses.

Have you read any of the common reads for SIGCSE 2017? Now's your chance to talk about them! Two novels: The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace & Babbage: The Mostly True Story of the First Computer by Sydney Padua (Pantheon Graphic Novels, 2015) and The Martian by Andy Weir (Broadway Books, 2014) as well as a short story: "The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov (Science Fiction Quarterly, 1956) were proposed at the end of the 2016 conference. If you're interested in science fiction, whether on a personal, academic, or pedagogical level, come join us in this BoF and discuss one or more of the two books and short story. We'll provide potential topics and discussion questions targeting how to incorporate these books into a CS course, but the discussion will be open. The BoF will close with a discussion of potential books for the 2018 conference.

Have you read any of the common reads for SIGCSE 2016? Now's your chance to talk about them! Two books: The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Primer by Neal Stephenson (Bantam Spectra, 1995) and Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (Orbit, 2013) as well as two short stories: "A Logic Named Joe" by Will F. Jenkins (Street and Smith, 1946) and "Seven Years from Home" by Naomi Novik (Clarksworld Magazine, 2014) were proposed at the end of the 2015 conference. If you're interested in science fiction, whether on a personal, academic, or pedagogical level, come join us in this BoF and discuss one or more of the two books and two stories. We'll provide potential topics and discussion questions targeting how to incorporate these books into a CS course, but the discussion will be open. The BoF will close with a discussion of potential books for the 2017 conference.

Did you read any of the common reads for SIGCSE 2015? Now's your chance to talk about them! Three books: I, Robot by Isaac Asimov (Bantam Spectra, 1950), Bellwether by Connie Willis (Bantam Spectra, 1997) and Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Broadway Books, 2012) were proposed at the end of the 2014 conference. If you're interested in science fiction, whether on a personal, academic, or pedagogical level, come join us in this BoF and discuss one or more of the three suggested books. We'll provide potential topics and discussion questions targeting how to incorporate these books into a CS course, but the discussion will be open. The BoF will close with a discussion of potential books for the 2016 conference.

Are you interested in incorporating some of your favorite science fiction in your classes? Did you know it can help improve student interest in the technical topic? Come join us as we talk about ways to connect SciFi to artificial intelligence, robotics, networking, intellectual property, and other topics. We'll start with overviews of how we've used SciFi and have plenty of time for discussion of new works and old that connect to the material we need to cover, while drawing students into the content and the field.

The use of science fiction (SF) to engage students in computer science learning is becoming more popular [1-6]. There is ample material available to help both undergraduate and graduate students make connections between technical content and human experience, from Star Trek to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to 2001: A Space Odyssey to I, Robot and many others. Fiction can be included in technical courses or used to draw students into the field in introductory classes. The panelists, who represent a range of schools, perspectives and classes, will present brief overviews (5-8 minutes) of how they have used science fiction to engage students in technical topics as well as ethical and societal issues related to computing. After the overviews, there will be plenty of time for discussion of examples used within the community and ways to make connections between science fiction and particular classes or topics. We will be gathering additional examples from the discussion and making them available online.