I was asked to co-host a debate on learning in public vs learning within the walled garden at Cardiff University’s Technology Enhanced Education conference recently. You might be able to pick up which side of the argument I’m on from the picture at the top.

Since then I’ve been having a few thoughts about what I said, and what I was trying to get at (I’ll post my slides for it later).

One of the key points for learners – to my mind – is an understanding of digital literacy (a horrible phrase but I’ll leave it as I’ll be playing bullshit bingo in this post).

Now it could be that I teach and facilitate students to find their way around an industry that is being disrupted by new technologies and it isn’t appropriate for everyone else – but to my way of thinking if we are preparing people for the world of work they need to understand some simple points