Reflection document, period 4 2022/2023

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.

• What could companies, public institutions and other organizations do, in order to decrease carbon emissions caused by computer systems? What role do companies have who are designing and/or producing software or hardware?
• In which ways could AI-based technology either enable or inhibit achieving some of the U.N. sustainable development goals?
• What role can computer scientists play in helping address societal and environmental challenges in pursuit of a sustainable future?
• Reflect on how sustainability issues have been or could be included in the courses in the Master's programme (including the degree project).
• Finally, write a paragraph where you reflect on the courses you are currently taking and the courses (or degree project) that you have chosen/will choose to take next semester.

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 May 11 at 19:00.

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 4 2022/2023: Sustainability in computing". Then edit this page, adding a line consisting of your name and course offering (prosamm22 or prosamm21) 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.

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

May 17, you will get an email with a link to the questionnaire. The questions are about your perceptions of the program integrating course, your studies and the education. The questionnaire, which is mandatory and anonymous, should be filled in before May 29, 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. (For prosamm21, the results from 2021/2022 can be found in the old course room.) 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.