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Challenge: think outside the (pencil) box
I grew up in the UK in the 70s. David Sproxton’s Morph on Take Hart was my all time favourite (though only in summer, Mum’s aversion to having a television in the house only dissipated during Wimbledon, but I digress). So I’ve watched this about 17 times today. What a great way to promote Friends […]
10 kinds of people: Sustainable practitioners and the guzzlers
July 26, 2007
The world is made up of 10 kinds of people: those who are sustainable practitioners and those who aren’t (OK, old computing joke). Suggesting that there are only two groups is clearly far too simplistic, but we need to know where people are so that we can work with them for the better. The fourth […]
Sustainability as first step in Agile Development Methodology
July 25, 2007
Sustainability in first iteration of software development gives basis for design. (trying out a template adapted from Creative Communities for CfS Agenda, item 7: resources). Solution Sustainability is considered as a major part of ethical design early in our software development process. We follow a methodology that is an integration of structured methodology under an […]
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 […]
Agenda encourages and empowers computing education for sustainability
July 16, 2007
Following up on the NACCQ policy statement on computing education for sustainability, here is the agenda for achieving this vision. We hope that it is empowering and engaging. It is deliberately both top down and bottom up. It is deliberately both incremental and transformative. It is deliberately aimed at the champions and the “ordinary lecturer”. […]
Posted in: agenda, CfS_Agenda, Computing for Sustainability, curriculum, NZ Computing, sustainability
July 26, 2007
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