Decolonising the Digital Classroom: Equity, Cultural Agency, and Access in Tech-Integrated Ecosystems

Education in the twenty-first century stands at a crossroads one where technology promises access, inclusion, and innovation, but simultaneously challenges the very ethics, identities, and pedagogies that have long anchored the human experience of learning. The digital turn has redefined not only how teachers teach and students learn but also what constitutes knowledge, community, and belonging in an age of constant connectivity. From the flicker of a smartphone screen to the architecture of artificial intelligence, the classroom has extended far beyond its walls, morphing into a dynamic, and sometimes disorienting, ecosystem of data, emotion, and design. Decolonising the Digital Classroom: Equity, Cultural Agency, and Access in Tech-Integrated Ecosystems emerges from this shifting landscape as both critique and possibility a scholarly effort to reimagine education where technology serves humanity rather than governs it.