ER: Event Reflections
Introduction
In a professional career you will be expected to regularly give your thoughts and opinions on topics based on your current knowledge and experience. Event Reflections are a form of practice for those situations.
Throughout the semester there will be a number of required events that occur inside and outside of class time. For these events you will write a short reflection in response to a given prompt, which you will then post to your blog for the course.
Event Reflections are, as the name suggests, reflective assignments. They are an exercise in thinking and writing. They are not research assignments and no Internet searches, library research, or AI tools may be used in thinking about, drafting, or revising your Event Reflection. What you write to address the prompt must come from your own mind based on your thinking about the event, connections to your current knowledge, past experiences, in person discussions with friends, family and classmates, and the prompt that is given.
Each of the Events for which an Event Reflection is required is listed below along with the prompt for the reflection.
Events and Prompts
ER01 - Can a Computer Program Think Like a Human? (9/29, 7:00pm ATS)
Identify a topic raised in the presentation or the subsequent discussion and questions that you found particularly thought provoking. Spend some time thinking about the topic you have chosen. Turn it around in your mind. Discuss it with your friends, family and classmates. Connect it to things that you know and experiences that you’ve had. Think about how the topic affects you or others. Then write a post of 250-350 words that:
- identifies the origins of the topic (e.g. “I attended a talk on … by …” and give a link.)
- briefly describes the topic you’ve thought about and possibly why you found it interesting.
- gives an organized summary of what you think are your best thoughts on the topic. This should be a significant majority of the post.
- is not a summary of the event.
TBA
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