LTP2 Moodle Course Sustainability and Digitality

Here, the presenters who developed this Learning and Teaching Package (LTP) introduce themselves.

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Check out the Video: Digitality.

Write down all key terms and their meanings in the                                                   Glossary: Sustainability and Digitality.

Take the quiz: Quiz: Digitality.

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An exciting experiment awaits you here!

Here you can find the Worksheet: Explore the environment with your smartphone in different formats. Once as a pdf file, so that you can use it directly in class or in teaching. The other file is in .pptx format so that you can modify the worksheet to suit you and your teaching.

The Worksheet: Explore the environment with your smartphone has a CC0 licence, so no rights are reserved. So feel free to modify and adapt the worksheet!

With this collaborative Taskcard-pinboard, we can collect apps and the experience of using these programs to explore the world.

Task:

Walk through the environment with your eyes open and notice how digital technologies influence and integrate into the environment.

Document your impressions through descriptions in text form, photos or sim

Life cycle of a smartphone with short quiz

Activity to raise awareness among pupils.

The journey of a conflict-free mineral into the Fairphone 2.

TREASURE HUNT
after WS 1 "Unblack the Box!":

• Complete the LearningApp. 
• Find your 1st lucky number! 
• Write it down and keep it for later!

What kinds of valuable rare minerals are in a smartphone? Take a closer look and consider the sustainability of phone production.

TREASURE HUNT 
after WS 2 "What's inside your Phone?":

• Complete the LearningApp. 
• Find your 2nd lucky number! 
• Write it down and keep it for later!
  

• Multiplayer kahoot quiz about precious materials in your phone. 
• You have to answer 7 questions. 
• Let's see who's the best!

TREASURE HUNT
after WS 3 "Pin the Planet!":

• Complete the LearningApp. 
• Find your 3rd lucky number! 
• Write it down and keep it for later!
  

A lot of the things we own seem to inevitably end up in the trash. That's kind of a shame because most of those things can be upcycled in tons of fun and creative ways. This, in turn, reduces waste, which is great for the environment. 

TREASURE HUNT
after WS 4 "FROM TRASH TO TREASURE!":

• Complete the LearningApp. 
• Find your 4th lucky number! 
• Write it down and keep it for later!

Activity to reflect on your own media use, media acquisition and media disposal. Based on these reflections, a discursive exchange of the participants is guided by the teacher.

If you don't have the possibility to disassemble a smartphone yourself there is a video provided here.

"Energy is critical to our modern lives. But our increasing demand for it has created a range of political, social and environmental problems." (LifeSquared)

"The first rendering displays the relative densities of Internet connectivity across the globe.." (Chris Harrison)

"Worldview Upgrader is a fun educational tool created to help people rid themselves of common systematic misconceptions about global development." (Gapminder)

"Watch everyday life in hundreds of homes on all income levels across the world, to counteract the media’s skewed selection of images of other places." (Gapminder)

This video explains climate change to children. This video is an additional resource to the Start-Up.

The Climate Handprint is the complement to the CO2 Footprint. It shows and measures what we can do to protect the climate. We increase it through our own actions and by supporting social change. This site is in German.

"Ecological Footprint? How many planets do we need if everybody lives like you? 
When is your personal Overshoot Day"

German climate psychologist Thomas Brudermann provides illustrations related to climate psychology in German and English. These can be used under the Creative Commons licence CC-BY-ND. They may be useful for further discussion.

Use worksheet 3 and the website about submarine cables to find out about how computers are connected. To visualize, put threads to show the cables (groupwork). Ask the students to imitate how the cables connect us digitally. You can play a game depicting a signal going from Point A to B.

Next use worksheet 4 and this website about data centres to find out major data centres and server farms are located around the world. To visualize, take wooden cubes (groupwork). Ask the students to place them on the countries and continents that have the largest data centres and server farms.

Next use worksheet 5 and the website about e-waste to find out which countries produce a lot of e-waste and which don’t. To visualize, take e-waste samples (groupwork). Ask the students to place them on the countries which produce a lot of e-waste and which don’t. 

You can also collect your demands for your joint resolution in a digital tool here. We use taskcards for this purpose, for example.