LTP2 Moodle Course Sustainability and Digitality
This is the first part of the LTP1 on Sustainable Europe.
Sustainability & Digitality
Sustainability & Digitality: Content, Competencies & Approaches for Primary and Lower Secondary School Teachers
The LTP introduces four units around the relationship between digitality and sustainability. Knowledge and pedagogical materials on topics such as harmful effects of digital technologies on the environment, the importance of digital technologies to deal with the climate crisis, and the social inequalities and social dependencies arising from digital infrastructures are addressed.
Methodology
The LTP offers pedagogical materials, invites hands-on projects, networking with school partners and NGOs, and engages in reflection.
Author(s): Nina Grünberger, Judith Neuthard (TU Darmstadt); Florian Danhel, Martin Sankofi, Petra Szucsich, Elena Revyakina, Klaus Himpsl-Gutermann (University College of Teacher Education, Vienna)
Credits: Cover Photo SAM (Sustainability and Media) by Judith Neuthard from TU Darmstadt, TAP-TS Partner.
ECTS Credits: 1.5
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Unit 1. The relationship between digitality and sustainability
Unit 1 introduces basic knowledge about the relationship between digitality and sustainability. The aim is to understand which ecological, economic and social challenges the digital world poses from a global perspective. But technologies have always been instruments of world measurement, also of world exploration, and thus can make a significant contribution to mitigating the climate crisis.
| Activity 1 What is Sustainability? Activity 2. What is Digitality? Activity 3. The relationship between digital technology and sustainability |
Activity 4. Explore the environment with your smartphone Activity 5. ‘Influence of digital technologies Activity 6. Sharing the experience Activity 7. Reflection |
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Unit 2. My Smartphone. Planet Earth and Me
Unit 2 invites us to look at the complex relationship of digitality and sustainability through the technology we use on an everyday basis. The smartphone is our constant companion. But what is a smartphone made of, where do its parts come from and where does a phone end up after its use?
| Activity 1. The Life Cycle of a Smartphone. Activity 2. Unblack the Box! Activity 3. What’s Inside Your Phone? Activity 4. Pin the Planet! Activity 5. From Trash to Treasure! |
Activity 6. My Smartphone and me. Activity 7. Phone of the Future Activity 8. Reflection for Action Activity 9. Reflection on Teacher Practice |
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Unit 3. The Digital Technology Network on the Globe
Unit 3 explores how we are connected globally in the digital era. Societies and technologies build and shape each other, but what are the ecological and social benefits of technological innovation? What are the ecological implications of the digital transformation and the associated ever-increasing demand for energy?
| Project journey 1: Find your Footprint Activity 1. What is Climate Change? Activity 2. What do you know about the continents? Activity3. What is a carbon footprint? Activity 4. Find your Footprint Activity 5. Ecological / Climate Handprint |
Project journey 2: Mapping Digital Technology Activity 1. What do you see? Activity 2. How does the Internet work? Activity 3. Submarine Cables, Data Centres & E-Waste Activity 4. Think about the Internet Activities on Reflection |
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Unit 4. A Future with or without Technology?
Unit 4 has a clear focus on questions about the future. The focus is on raising ideas, questions, concepts, etc. oriented towards existing theories on developments in the IT sector.
| Activity 1.Introductory video – A Future with or without Technology? Activity 2. A Future with or without Technology? |
Activity 3: OUR RESOLUTION Activity 4: FINAL RESOLUTION |
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