Reflection document, period 4 2019/2020

The seminar in period 4 has the title Future of computer science as a profession.

Before you start writing your reflection you need to do the preparations.

The written reflection

Write a reflection document where you address the following points based on your preparations and your experience and expectations. The document should be 500-800 words.

• With everyone using computers, what will the role of IT-experts be? Base the reflections on what you read in Ethics and Professional Responsibility in Computing and The role of artificial intelligence in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, as well as your own experience.
• What kind of skills will be valuable 10 years from now? Base the reflections on what you read in The Future of Jobs and Jobs Training and Investigating the skill gap between graduating students and industry expectations, as well as your own experience.
• Reflect on your studies (possibly the degree project) in period 4 and how distance education has affected your studies. What has become more difficult? Has anything improved?

The document should be written as, or be converted to, a Google document. Set the permissions, so that everyone with the link will be allowed to comment the document. The following video shows how to do this:

If you do not want to use Google Docs for your text, there is an alternative described in the course memo.

Hand in the reflection

The link to your written reflection must be added to your group's Canvas page for this seminar before 19:00 on May 7. First, check that you are logged in to Canvas (in the grey Canvas menu to the left). You can find your group page by clicking Groups/Grupper in the grey Canvas menu to the left, choose your group (named prosamm group X VT20), click on Pages/Sidor and the page named "period 4 2019/2020: Future of computer science as a profession". Then edit this page, adding a line consisting of your name and course offering (prosamm19 or prosamm18) at the end of the document, and make this line link to your Google document by using the chain icon and entering the URL of the Google document. Then save the page. Be careful not to change or remove anything on the page that anyone else has written.

(If you cannot find your group in Canvas, please email Viggo Kann <viggo@kth.se> to get a group.)

You will also need to read and comment on the other group members' reflections.

Fill in the evaluation questionnaire that will be emailed to you

In a few days, you will get an email with a link to the questionnaire. The questions are about your perceptions of the program integrating course, your perceptions of the current state of things, and, for second year students, an evaluation of your education. The questionnaire, which is mandatory and anonymous, should be filled in before May 15, at 19:00. 

Have you missed anything in this course?

This is the final seminar of the academic year. If you look at your results in Grades/Omdömen in Canvas you should have "1" for each of the three tasks for each seminar: reflection document, comments and seminar, in order to pass the course. If you missed anything you will need to read the instructions on how to fix this. If a result has not been reported correctly, you should contact your mentor for that seminar.

When you have "1" for each of the seminar tasks and have answered the mandatory questionnaire, you will get the Ladok component of the year (UPP1 for year 1 and UPP2 for year 2), worth 1 credit, reported.