Appropriate technology is technology that is designed and used with special consideration to the environmental, social, economic, cultural, political and ethical aspects for citizen empowerment, critical reflection and action. Such a kind of technologies include web logs (blogs) as reflective journals,  wikis as collaborative websites, participatory video, digital storytelling & podcasting, Twitter and social networks (MySpace, Facebook and Google Groups). With these definitions in mind, this course explores both the theory and practice of active citizenship and personal/community-based development, focusing on appropriate technology tools and skills for local knowledge construction, cultivating local leadership for sustainable development, mobilizing communities for collective action, and how to amplify children’s and marginalised people’s voices for greater participation in decision-making processes. The overarching goals of this course is: a) to provide students with historical and conceptual frameworks for thinking about "appropriate technologies" and active citizenship in the context of education for sustainability; b) raise awareness of the role of appropriate technology in enabling learners to reflect critically on the rights, roles and responsibilities of an active citizen in preparing for a sustainable future for all; c) engage students in hands-on experience with specific education for sustainability projects enabled through Web 2 technologies; and d) use participatory video as a process of research-reflection-action that can generate local knowledge, raise the consciousness of those involved and provide a powerful mechanism to convey critical citizen agency.

  

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