Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

For background, per Florian Cramer, "the 'post-digital' describes an approach to digital media that no longer seeks technical innovation or improvement, but considers digitization as something that has already happened and thus might be further reconfigured." This current article uses the mechanism of the social imaginary - "a narrative about our experience of the world" - to reflect on what postdigital learning spaces might look like, and then "explores how the attributes of a refurbished classroom were experienced by the first cohort of teachers to use it." The resulting class was bigger and multifunctional (it reminded me of the 'open concept' classes teachers experimented with in the 1970s). "Working in teams, teachers develop fluid practices balancing physical movement with stationary digital orchestration whilst responding to spatial layout and the placement of digital tools." 

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