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Sustainability Management School (SUMAS)

It is the only school in Europe that offers programs that include sustainability and management.

It is based totally on sustainability.

It combines business management education and the scientific approach to sustainability.

Students there are tough to combine sustainability with business management.

Sustainable consumption & production: a greener world

Human impact on the environment is around 80 percent.

The ecological footprint measures the amount of surface area is needed to produce the resources for a daily life.

If we don't change our behavior, b y 2050 we will need twice the earth's surface to absorb our impact.

The European union created a label to show which products were Eco-friendly.

This is the begging of sustainable consumption and production around the world.

An Inconvenient Truth | Film Trailer | Participant Media

The ten hottest years in history have all taken place through the 14 years previous to this film.

Global warming is cause glaciers to melt.

Global warming is causing larger storms worldwide.

Temperatures are rising world wide.

It is our job to take care of the planet.

FLYING MOFFET

A solar powered aircraft.

This type of sustainable aircraft can reduce energy consumption by half in the aviation world.

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY GRADUATION CEREMONY

Second sustainable aircraft that will fly around the world in the year 2015

It is hard to achieve such good results from sustainable projects.

Millions were invested in this oportunity and they did a flight across america.

Every difficulty is a potential opportunity.

Exploration and inovation brings success.

Assignment

How to apply sustainable consumption to Bogota

   Bogota is the largest city in Colombia and the fourth largest city in Latin america. This fact makes it hard to apply sustainable consumption and production to the city. However this does not mean it is impossible. There are several ways people in Bogota can apply sustainable alternatives to reduce the city's impact on the global environment. These options include the formulation of laws that  limit the amount of resources a company can use when making their products if they are going to sell it in Bogota. Another alternative would be to inform the buyers what products were made with sustainable resources and which products were not.

  If the local government passed a law that limited the amount of resources a person could use , then these companies would start producing sustainable products, and the increase of said products would lead to a dramatic increase in sustainable consumption. Another possibility would be to inform the public of sustainable products. The amount of said products that would be sold would be a lot larger because people would feel guiltily if they bought products which were made by damaging the environment in Bogota. These two are the best alternatives to increase sustainable consumption in Bogota. 

Growing Up Online

12 things that did not surprise me 
People have different personalities online.
People look for kids online with ill intentions.
People are more connected each time.
People use fake names in online profiles.
Around 90 percent of teenagers are online at night.
Parents can't control what their children do online.
The internet has become a part of people's daily lives.
People's social lives have now moved online.
Schools can't control what their students do online at home.
Schools are trying to incorporate technology when they are teaching.
Some teachers are failing to adapt to technology.
Technology is causing people to loose attention skills.
People are more nervous.
Peoiple are loosing control of their lives due to the internet.
People no longer feel safe tdue to online predators.

12 things that surprised me

Teacher's can't control online plagiarism, and they can use technology to prevent it.
Students are no longer able to read books due to the fact that they spend most of their time online. People still read online books.
People use online social networks to replace actual social life, because social networks tell people when and where to take their social life.
People compete to see who can get more friends in social networks. Because people don't talk about how many friends they have.

People start fights for no reason online with other people. They will usually look for a reason to pick a fight.
People will change their whole personalities because of something that happens online because they would not like their real life.
people will do stuff online in order to get complements in the real life because their new personalities will never go offline.
People will exaggerate what other people go online even if it is not that bad.
People will  forget about things that happen online because some things are too bad that they can't be completely forgotten.
People will do things that are socially expected online because the internet is mostly used to do things that are socially accepted.
Online Predators are more dangerous than those in the real world even if they are easier to track.
Parents have not done much to to get their childern's passwords even when they are worried that bad things will happen to you.
Parents rather than taking care of their own kids they will send emails to all parents even when it is none of their business.
Parents will support their children to do something online after they have grounded them for doing it in the first place.
People will bully people offline for things happening online even if the person is different in the real life.

12 ways in which technology has changed since 2008

Online life has moved from just computers to phones and tablets.
Now people have internet access to the internet from anywhere.
Now people's privacy has decreased because they can get messages at any moment.
A picture can be uploaded instantly to the internet from today's devices.
people can be tracked instantly from today's devices .
The internet is no longer part of people's lives, now it is people's lives.
People can go online anywhere rather than looked for computers.
Parents have even less control over our online life.
parent's of today's children will no longer know who their children's friends really are.
Parent's will no longer check what their children are doing until something happens.
Today's devices make it easier to identify someone online by the authorities.
Today's devices are taking people's lives into the internet.
People today use they devices for their daily life rather than a computer for certain things.
Today's devices will notify ]you of new online activity and messages
Electronic devices are now cheaper and more people are able to access the internet.

Questions


-What advice do you have for parents about kids and being online(should they have your password , be your friend on Facebook monitor your texts ... what should and shouldn't they do?)

   Parents that try to control their children's online behavior sometimes don't do enough, and sometimes they overprotect their kids. Parents should try to get their children's passwords in order to access their accounts if something happens, but they should not access it otherwise. Parent's should not monitor their children's texts because it would be interfering with their private life. This changes if something happens because this way your parents may be able to help you. Parents have to protect their children , but they also have to respect their privacy.

-What are the biggest benefits of being online, for you, personally?

  Being online has many benefits. The internet is full of information which can be used to research  Personally people can express their personality to other in a more open way, and they will have more freedom. They neither give up their real life, nor fell bad about it. Personally you can find websites about improving as a person and this ca help you become a better person. Online exercises will help you improve your skill in certain things, and this will make you better in different things.

-Which topic in the video was most UNLIKE your own experiences and why?

    The topic in the video that was most unlike my own experiences was the fact that predators will try to look for you online. This is because I have never accepted a friend request of someone who I did not know who it really was. I have never had an experience in which a stranger tries to contact me on the internet due to the fact that I have strong privacy settings on all my online accounts. Another important factor in this is the fact that I am not constantly searching for new friends online like other people do. These are the reasons why this topic does not relate to my life.

*Chrome Extensions for Students and Teachers

A Google extension is an icon that will appear in your search bar and allow you to do something with the page you are viewing. The picture below shows examples of these.

Some of these extensions include applications that have different functions.Like These:

-Magic scroll,  which will help you read e-pub files in your computer even if you don't have internet connections.

-Select and Speak, Select and speak will help you select any text in any webpage and read it to you.

-Webpage Screenshot  This application will help you take screen shots of any webpage.

Chrome extensions has a lot of useful applications that will eliminate the adds, or do something like read text to yourself thus saving your time for more important work. Other tools will allow you to translate sites that are in a foreign languages.To Download any of these applications you only need a Google account and you will be able to log in and download any app for free. All the applications you download will be interconnected with each other.

http://learningtechnologiesteam.blogspot.com/2012/05/chrome-extensions-for-teachers-and.html

http://learningtechnologiesteam.blogspot.com/2012/05/chrome-extensions-for-teachers-and.html

  Chrome extensions for students and teachers only requires a Google account  With this you can download as many free applications to do different things with the website you are viewing. Some of these applications will allow you to get rid of adds, or even look for more detailed information. Teaches would benefit from this because this way they could use the apps to take more advantage of the websites they are using to teach their students. Students would benefit from this because they would be able to take more advantage of the websites they are using to search something or to work. There work would be more detailed and their knowledge would increase. This is how these apps would be a great benefit for education all over the world.