Reducing the Carbon Footprint of EdTech with Repurposed Devices

Education technology (EdTech) is an important tool for streamlining and improving course administration and teaching. Many modern EdTech tools rely on cloud services to host containerized applications. While this is convenient, it is also costly in terms of both dollars and carbon emissions.We propose the alternative approach of hosting containerized EdTech applications on local clusters of upcycled Android devices. We perform an evaluation of the Google Pixel Fold for handling educational workloads. Our findings suggest that such repurposed device could effectively bridge the gap between mobile and traditional computing platforms in education, open new avenues for accessible educational computing environments.