The Digital Evolution of Schooling
Understanding and shaping the digital transformation of schooling
TweetMal Lee COVID informed societies worldwide that the digitally connected families of the young had the digital technology and competencies to continue to play a major, often lead role in the education of the nation’s young. Leave aside for the moment that the family has always been the children’s first teacher, but since the early …
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TweetMal Lee To succeed in a disrupted world, leaders will need to forge an agile and connected enterprise with a future-focused workforce. For both individuals and organizations, there needs to be a reconciling of the demand for digital skills to deploy and manage technology, and the human skills to live and work with this technology. Positioning …
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TweetRoger Broadie and Mal Lee are embarking on the quest to identify the major trends and issues that they believe will impact on the nature of schooling in 2050. The late management guru, Peter Drucker, very wisely remarked Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights …
TweetMal Lee All teachers should be reflective practitioners. The need is that much greater when teaching within the more networked mode. Natural digital evolution, the pace and magnitude of the organisational transformation, the expectation that schools will continually accommodate the new normal, and the increased dependence on dynamic social networks should oblige all teachers to …
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TweetMal Lee All teachers and heads, and indeed all school decision makers should understand the workings of schools operating as networked organisations, the impact the new mode will have on their teaching and the school, the possibilities open and the implications that flow. So too they should recognise the uniqueness of schools as networked organisations, …
TweetMal Lee Central to life within a networked society is trust, empowerment, and agency. All digitally connected peoples, but particularly the young expect to be trusted to use and learn with the digital as desired, with the agency to use the capability largely unfettered. People want to have control of their use of and learning …
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TweetMal Lee In transitioning to a more networked mode of schooling and teaching it is important for both teachers and heads to have an in-depth understanding of the transition that has, and has not occurred adjudge their school’s position and understand where it wants to move, and contribute to shaping the desired future. It bears …
TweetMal Lee An integral part of schools transitioning to a more networked mode is readying them culturally and organisationally to continually provide the desired education in a world of accelerating, natural technological and societal evolution, transformation, and uncertainty, where the expectation will be that the schools will mirror the ways of society. That readying will …
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TweetMal Lee Society will expect, possibly unwittingly, the natural evolution and transformation evidenced in daily life and near ever organisation to be mirrored in its schools. It will moreover expect the lessons learned from the COVID experience also to be taken on board. In the last two years the transformative impact of these two developments …
TweetMal Lee The transition of schooling from its traditional, insular paper based mode to one that is increasingly networked has been in the main a natural evolutionary development. It is moreover an inexorable evolution, that is on trend to become faster, more sophisticated, wide reaching, transformative and to be part of schooling forever. Critically the …