Technology and sustainability teaching initiative through the use of electronic waste

Abstract

In this paper, we emphasize practical classes in technical secondary education, with an emphasis on sustainability, with specific planning of curricular components such as architecture and organization of computers and informatics based on Active Methodologies, Project-Based Learning (PBL). The subjects involved in the teaching and learning process, students and professors, developed, in the classroom, prototypes of products for different purposes from the reuse of electronic waste. Through the application of focus groups, questionnaires and a workshop with demonstration of the prototypes, enabling learning about computer knowledge and awareness of issues related to sustainability, especially with regard to the reuse, reuse and disposal of electronic waste. It is believed that the initiative presents, among other main characteristics, innovation and sustainability, and can be adapted and applied, not only in secondary education, but also in other levels of education, including in other schools in the country.