“Outside the classroom learners are building up new rich media literacies as they create their own habitus of learning in everyday life. We propose that schools should, and ultimately must, recognise and embrace this change. However, we are aware that such a perspective provides a challenge to our conceptions of where the boundaries of formal education are positioned.”

Bachmair, Pachler and Cook state that ”Educationally, knowledge and media are cultural resources, which are no longer controlled and governed by the school.” Our schools should not be a place that students are rendered unable to engage with the culture in which they exist. Educators should instead be embracing these devices and their capacity to improve the learning agendas set within the formal environment of a school.