The Digital Evolution of Schooling
Understanding and shaping the digital transformation of schooling
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 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 …
TweetMal Lee The COVID -19 experience, coupled with the transition to the more networked mode is already shaping as a watershed moment in the history of schooling. The pandemic alerted the world to the historic transformation underway, accelerated the transition, forced teachers, students, parents and schools to pool their resources and collaborate in the teaching, …
TweetMal Lee and Roger Broadie In moving schooling from a paper to digital construct the way is opened to shift to an increasingly sophisticated, powerful, flexible and naturally evolving operational base, and allow schools to continually provide an apt, ever richer, contemporary 24/7/365 education. Critically the shift in thinking enables schools and systems to better …
Tweet Mal Lee and Roger Broadie The short answer is yes, on both counts. But it is extremely rare, far rarer than most governments, politicians, the media and educational leaders would have you believe. Historically one will struggle to find an education authority, local, provincial or national, anywhere in the world that has achieved core …
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Tweet Mal Lee and Roger Broadie This seemingly mundane management issue, that most educators view as just that, challenges the very nature of schooling. Are schools in democracies places where the state compels a compliant youth to learn what and how government believes is appropriate, or are they organisations that assist an increasingly digitally empowered …
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