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Presenting exemplar learning for sustainability resources?

July 25, 2007

Almost universally, people agree with the concept of integrating education for sustainability but then ask how they go about it? and, do we have any examples? The seventh item on the CfS Agenda is: 7. Identify and promote exemplar resources and teaching strategies, initially identifying sustainability related areas missing from current curriculum. This includes the […]

New policy makes sustainability a priority for computing education

July 15, 2007

In what we think is a world first, Computing Education for Sustainability is now a priority for NZ computing. The NACCQ represents most of New Zealand’s computing educators (all Institutes of Technology, all Polytechnics, with representation by some Universities), its conference is supported by the ACM’s SIGCSE. We are very happy to report that the […]

An Agenda for Computing Education for Sustainability

July 5, 2007

Pulling things together: here is a draft agenda for developing effective Computing Education for Sustainability (CEfS). 1. Work with the wider computing community to envisage and articulate a role for computing and computing professionals in a sustainable future. 2. Work with the wider computing community to articulate a discipline response to sustainability. This may take […]

Environment hardly features in dying discipline

July 3, 2007

In discussions on the British Computer Society, McBride questions whether computer science is a dying discipline (a subsequent outcry refutes this, see Mander, but McBride’s points are still valid). McBride sees relevance of Computer Science courses as the major problem, in essence he says the training is CS but the jobs are IT: “the gap […]

Computing for Sustainability: Low hanging curricula

July 2, 2007

In Sustainability a “Pervasive Theme” or MIC (”Missing In Curriculum”)? we looked for sustainability in the computing curricula but didn’t find any there. Clearly it should be (well we think so). If the high hanging fruit is paradigm change (ala Blevis), and medium hanging fruit is cross curricula integration (upscaling rethinking school lunch) and courses […]