The fifth of the Ten Principles of Learning Design acknowledges that the broad context of learning and teaching has shifted from an analogue to a digital world. This is not about being a technophile. It does not insist that everything should be ‘technology-first’, quite the opposite. It means we should be considering ‘learner-first’, and, in a significant number of contexts, countries, systems, and disciplines, learners now live in an increasingly digital world. We must also design learning in an ‘anticipatory framework’. It may be that if you are teaching a very practical skill, such as bricklaying, there is no apparent need for technology, but there may be emergent technologies to evaluate the alignment of your bricks or detect the viscosity of the mortar you are mixing. These technologies may not yet be routine, but one can anticipate that they may become so. This means that designing in anticipation of the trend towards digitisation, regardless of the discipline, from bricklaying to dance, from chemistry to policy studies, is essential.
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