How to integrate Sustainable Development in ICT subject?

This post has been made for providing my answers to the assignment given from VOC2 Sustainable Development learning environment: http://interdisciplinaryappraoach.blogspot.fi/

5. Read through the information on sustainable development on this blog. Use it to help you answer the questions below, along with your own experiences and expertise

c.      How does sustainable development link to your area of work or study? (Think of the three spheres of sustainability: economic, social and environmental) Please give some ideas of how you could combine or apply a sustainability perspective to your subject.

Image retrieved from the World Bank website

I have exercised SD integration into my ICT subject’s lesson plan in VOC1: http://pathofnorthernlights.blogspot.fi/search/label/Sustainability

 The aim of the lesson plan was students to aware of energy consumption used by UNIX computer system, students have to optimize the system to reduce the energy consumption and carbon emission. It is part of environmental pillar, and also from this category, recycling of commuter devices and materials, looking for environmentally friendly hardware solutions could be easily linked to ICT subject.

From the economic pillar, how to develop computer software for reducing transportation cost, e.g. virtual collaboration and support, encouraging on-line education tool development could be linked to the ICT subject.

For the social pillar, how ICT could help for better offer in education and training opportunities is a good topic for initiating a SD project work in school.

 

e. What was especially interesting or even surprising for you in this material (texts, video, and pdfs)?

I have found quite interesting information from the World Bank website and Sustainable Development in Finnish Foreign Policy: http://formin.finland.fi/Public/default.aspx?nodeid=32099&contentlan=2&culture=en-US, Resilient People Resilient Planet, A future Worth Choosing: http://formin.finland.fi/public/download.aspx?ID=107923&GUID={B8429D2F-03BF-43C4-8DF1-603D9375A083}

The sources could be used for my SD teaching in the future.