The Educational Power of Digital Ecosystems

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 …

Shaping the Desired Ecosystem

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 …

Accommodating Linear and Non Linear Growth

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 …

Ecosystems within Ecosystems

TweetDigital Schools Growing Their Community Mal Lee and Roger Broadie In contemplating the digital evolution of your school and the creation of the desired school ecosystem appreciate that as your school’s digital ecosystem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_ecosystem) grows so too will it increasingly interact with other ecosystems, local, regional and national unwittingly assisting those respective communities grow, while …

Schools as Complex Adaptive Systems

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 …

Schools Have to Go Digital to Remain Viable

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 …

Invitation to Join Digital Evolution of Schooling Google Group

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 …

Chaos and order – the new working paradox

Tweet  Mal Lee and Roger Broadie Schools increasingly will need to work, nay thrive with the seeming paradox of accommodating seeming operational chaos at the same time as the on-going quest for order. Tom Peter’s famously wrote Thriving on Chaos for the business world in 1987. 25 plus years on much of that advice is …

Schools as Ever Evolving Ecologies

Tweet  Mal Lee and Roger Broadie We’ve found it helpful in considering the distinct nature of digital schools to view them as ever evolving, evermore tightly integrated ecologies where all the parts are increasingly linked. They stand in marked contrast to the traditional paper based schools, and in particular the secondary schools that have long …