Reflection document, period 3 2020/2021

Before you write your reflection you should do the preparations.

The written reflection

Write a reflection document where you address the following points based on the preparations. The document should be 500-1000 words.

• Does computer science come with special ethical issues?
• Identify some ethical dilemmas that an IT-specialist can be faced with.
• What is your role, as an engineer, if your products are misused?
• Explain in which way the topics of your specialization track/sub-track or of a course within it potentially affect society such that ethical responsibilities should be taken into account.
• Which courses have you taken/do you plan to take in your track? Why?

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 February 11 at 19:00.

The group page where the reflection should be uploaded will be available from February 4!

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), click on Pages/Sidor and the page named "period 3 2020/2021: Ethical responibilities". Then edit this page, adding a line consisting of your name and course offering (prosamm20 or prosamm19) 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.