Making the Invisible Visible: Teaching Students About the Hidden Environmental Costs of Digital Activities
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The environmental impact of digital consumption remains largely invisible to students. While universities increasingly promote artificial intelligence (AI) and digital expansion, few students are encouraged to consider the environmental costs of these technologies. Drawing from my experience incorporating ecological lessons into library instruction sessions at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM), this article explores how information literacy sessions can highlight the resource use of online behaviors. Through interactive exercises and discussions, students understand how their digital habits contribute to global environmental challenges and learn sustainable digital practices
Author: David J. Brier
Institution: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Language: English
Subfield: Library and Information Sciences
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4414760552
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