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摘要
Professional skills such as 'an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility' and 'the broad education necessary for understanding the impact of engineering solutions on a global, economic, environment and societal context' have proved difficult to teach. Moreover, it is difficult to develop these skills at the comprehension and application levels of the Bloom taxonomy. In the Barcelona School of Informatics we teach these skills at application level by using Service Learning. In this paper, we describe a lab activity in which students repair old fashioned or broken PCs, and install free software in order to use this equipment in solidarity projects. This kind of activity has several effects: first of all, it is a way to recycle and reuse some of the many PCs that our university discards and which otherwise would be thrown away. Secondly, students obtain real insight into the above-mentioned skills, which are quite difficult to teach. Students work on real problems that meet full realistic constraints, and learn the social and environmental impact of technology in a very good way: increasing the useful life of electronic equipment, reducing e-waste and influencing the quality of life of the most deprived sections of society.
- 出版日期2010
