Abstract
Sustainability has been a crucial topic in political discussions (see United Nations 2015, European Commission 2019) and scientific discourses (Bianchi 2020, Chang 2020) for some time. In addition to the discussion about the prudent use of natural resources sustainability is increasingly influenced by another global challenge, namely digitalisation (Lange & Santarius 2018, Grünberger 2023) and the development of artificial intelligence (Ehlers 2020). This article focuses on the issue of general pedagogy regarding a digital teaching-learning culture. An initial approach to the concept of responsibility linked with sustainable development shows that assuming or assigning responsibility does not automatically lead to an appropriate problem solving. The subsequent multidimensional structural analysis identifies limiting factors of human thinking and machine information processing. The paper concludes with a pedagogical proposal regarding a medial and at the same time natural way of dealing with the world.