The Role of Information Technology in Ecological Education in the Context of Cooperation between High Schools from Poland, Austria and the Czech Republic
The Role of Information Technology in Ecological Education in the Context of Cooperation between High Schools from Poland, Austria and the Czech Republic

Summary/Abstract: Contemporary ecological problems of the world can not only be studied as a survey of knowledge, opinions and attitudes, but also as a project designed to stimulate society from an early age towards responsibility for the environment and to increase individual ecological awareness. The article is a summary of the work carried out during the project of three cooperating schools representing Poland, Austria and the Czech Republic. The aim of the project was to consider the importance of ecology at the level of participating secondary schools in selected countries and the use of technology to implement this project. International project coordinators were interviewed. The questions concerned: application of technology in an international school project, summary of the effects of the Polish school’s cooperation with foreign schools and new challenges in the digital school. A qualitative study was carried out. The project was also analyzed in terms of activities included, and the effects were presented. The main issue raised in the project is environmental protection and ecology. Attention was paid to the problems of the Earth, the common home of all people. The role of education in shaping a possible international dialogue on cooperation in the field of ecology was also emphasized. Real environmental protection, as the activities of school students from three countries described in the article show, is a new style of education, a new approach to ecology, which is a call to the right relationship of man to the world around him.

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