Code: 1.5

Considering responsible and sustainable consumption in digital markets

To understand how one’s behaviour as a digital consumer affects the community, society and environment. To use digital technologies to make socially and environmentally responsible choices.

Descriptors

Knowledge

What you learn at this level

K
Evaluating the effects of one's behaviour as a digital consumer on the environment and its ethical and social impacts
K
Knowing that the transport of goods purchased online has an impact on the environment
K
Understanding the environmental impact of computers and electronic devices and how they can be made to last longer (e.g. changing hard disks) or recycled

Skill

What you learn at this level

S
Being able to use digital tools to improve the environmental and social impact of one's consumer behaviour (e.g. by looking for local produce, by searching for collective deals, etc.)
S
Applying one’s understanding of socially responsible sustainable consumption to purchases in the digital marketplace
S
Choosing digital means that have less impact on the planet (e.g. reading an online newspaper instead of print; sharing, re-selling and recycling goods through P2P digital marketplaces)

Attitude

What you learn at this level

A
Endorsing sustainable positions in the digital marketplace and advocating them (e.g. advocating sustainable production and/or consumption through social networking sites)
A
Positioning oneself as a sustainable digital consumer
A
Being critical about the excesses of consumption or unsustainable production and consumption

Learning outcome types: K — What you need to know: theoretical understanding and factual information.; S — What you can do: practical and technical abilities.; A — How you approach things: values, dispositions and behaviours.