‘The Pandemic Will Not be on Zoom’: A Retrospective from the Year 2050

Teaching in the Age of Covid-19 - A Longitudinal Study

“…Before blindly adopting hybrid/blended education, we have to remember that teaching and learning are human enterprises (Xiao 2021b ), and educational design considerations should orbit around human-centred approaches (Karakaya 2021 ) as teaching and learning are ‘primarily about human beings, for human beings and by human beings’ (Xiao 2021a : 3). It is evident that we are shifting into a future where, if we fail, there will be consequences (Bozkurt and Sharma 2020b ; Costello et al 2020 ). Therefore, we need to plan carefully, adapt human-centred pedagogies before being seduced by the temptation of digitally facilitated educational opportunities such as hybrid or blended education.…”

Educational Futures and Postdigital Science

“…And analyses of educational futures—what will pedagogy, posthuman and machine learning, and capital networks influencing educational processes and systems look like in various future scenarios—stand to benefit from more creativity and imagination. We have any number of examples to explore, from novel approaches to mapping out educational futures (such as a wonderful piece by Costello et al ( 2020 )) to illustrations of our contemporary condition, such as that provided by Johnny Mnemonic . It is to the latter that we now turn, so that we can begin to lay the foundation for more of the former in educational futures.…”

“…If we do that, we will miss the chance to rewire different futures. We need more dispatches from the future (Costello et al 2020 ; Kupferman 2020a ). Postdigital science is a wide-open field.…”

When discourse analysts tell stories: what do we ‘do’ when we use narrative as a resource to critically analyse discourse?

“…Heidrun Allert, Anne Bruch and I locate ourselves in the future and look 'back' at the 2020s to write three fictive histories of education and technology in that era (Macgilchrist et al, 2020). Costello et al (2020) reflect on the post-pandemic world. These 'speculative fictions' draw on elements of science fiction alongside insights from social science research.…”