Sociomateriality, Postdigital Thinking, and Learning Spaces Research

The Future Postdigital Classroom

“…Similar ideas have been developed by Lamb et al (2022) in their Special Issue titled 'The Postdigital Learning Spaces of Higher Education', where they suggest that the distinction between online and campus teaching 'ignores the postdigital reality of contemporary learning' (4). In a later article, Lamb (2023) develops on how this postdigital perspective complements established sociomaterial approaches in educational research by allowing a focus on specific technologies in the wider assembly of human and non-human actors.…”

“…The postdigital condition posits that technologies are an integrated part of learning environments and practices (Knox 2019;Jandrić and Knox 2022;Jopling 2023). This is visible across education including curricula (Aitken and Jones 2023), pedagogies (Fawns 2023), everyday learning and teaching (Carvalho and Yeoman 2023), and the organization of learning spaces (Carvalho and Lamb 2023;Lamb 2023). Structuring future social relations and educational possibilities, technologies are invariably future oriented (Macgilchrist et al 2024).…”