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Our digital education habits in the light of their environmental impact: the role of green computing in education

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2020-10-12
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Copyright (c) 2022 Réka Racsko, Ede Mátyás Troll

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Racsko, R., & Troll, E. M. (2020). Our digital education habits in the light of their environmental impact: the role of green computing in education. Teaching Mathematics and Computer Science, 18(1), 69-86. https://doi.org/10.5485/TMCS.2020.0508
Abstract

With the increasing use of IT tools, the environmental impacts they generate have also increased. Education is increasingly relying on digital tools to become a major emitter of CO2 itself. Therefore, the task of education is to teach future generations how to use IT tools efficiently while being environmentally aware. In addition to some forms of green computing, we show the level and ratio of those teachers who have corresponding IT knowledge in the Hungarian education. In this study, we present the justification of the problem through a case study, which estimates the Internet traffic of a website streaming popular educational resources. In addition, we will examine the extent to which national and international educational organization and guidance documents address the development of digital environmentally aware thinking. Based on the content of this study, we suggest some considerations for content developers to decide if they really need to create the digital content.

Subject Classification: 97P99, 94-06, 94-02