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 and Roger Broadie What we are about to suggest will for many be contentious. It is a suggestion that Mal has elaborated upon at http://educationtechnologysolutions.com.au/2014/07/15/digital-technology-and-student-learning-the-impact-of-the-ecology. It is to our minds a logical extension of all the previous writings on the growing power and impact of increasingly focussed, more tightly integrated digitally based school …
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TweetMal Lee and Roger Broadie The ultimate challenge as the leader of a digital school is to shape, week after week a school ecosystem that simultaneously, and effectively addresses all the variables that impact each child’s learning in and increasingly outside the school walls. Where in business the focus is on shaping highly productive digitally …
TweetIn posting this piece we appreciate we are – once again – addressing a development that has likely never been considered in school growth, but it is a reality found in the digital evolution of all organisations. Mal Lee and Roger Broadie The shaping of the desired school ecosystem entails, likely increasingly, the school leadership …
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Tweet[ Another in the series of blogs intended to support those participating in our 10 week Leading Your School’s Digital Evolution program. The next of the 10 week program begins on April 26, and is open to any who are interested.] Mal Lee and Roger Broadie It is vital in addressing the digital evolution of your school …
Tweet Martin Levins and I have just released our 2016 edition of BYOT and the Digital Evolution of Schooling. It is now available free as an e-book. While building on our earlier 2012 publication for ACER Press on Bring Your Own Technology the new work addresses the rapid developments in the last four years and …
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TweetMal Lee and Roger Broadie While Roger and I have made mention in our writings on the digital evolution of schooling of the shift to an increasingly 24/7/365 mode of schooling until now we’ve not paused and specifically addressed its form, nor vitally the many and profound implications for schools, education authorities, teacher educators, governments …
TweetMal Lee The cover article in this month’s Educational Technology Solutions is one by me that contends all schools have to go digital to remain viable. A copy of that article is attached or can be got from the Educational Technology Solutions website. Interestingly in presenting to three groups of school leaders in the past …
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TweetRoger Broadie, Martin Levins and Mal Lee have created a new a new forum – using Google groups – for those globally interested in advancing, researching and analysing the digital evolution and transformation of schooling. We are looking at those leading the way in the pathfinder schools those monitoring and researching their moves the education …
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TweetThe MIT Sloan Management Review in – its 2015 research report – on ‘Strategy not Technology Drives Digital Transformation’ is well worth downloading and analysing. Go to – http://sloanreview.mit.edu/projects/strategy-drives-digital-transformation/ While drawing on the developments within industry it is highly applicable to the digital evolution and transformation of schools.