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, …
Category Archives: Primary school evolution
Schools as Digital Constructs
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 …
Primary Schools Will Evolve Faster
TweetMal Lee and Roger Broadie A decade plus study of the digital evolution of the pathfinder affirms to the authors that in general terms primary – or what others know as elementary or preparatory – schools will evolve faster than their secondary/high school counterparts. The current primary school mindset, culture and organisational mode makes digital …
Silo Like to Integrated Schools
TweetMal Lee and Roger Broadie A significant part of your digital evolutionary journey will be the school’s historic movement from its inefficient silo like organisational structure of Industrial Age origins to an increasingly integrated, efficient and productive one befitting a digital and socially networked society. You’ll shift from the traditional arrangement where the various cells …
Address the Totality, Not the Parts
TweetMal Lee and Roger Broadie One of the more challenging tasks in shaping a digitally based school ecosystem is to focus on the desired totality, not the parts. School leaders need to shed their traditional school development thinking and its preoccupation with the parts, and put to the fore the shaping of the new ever …
Release of 2016 Edition A Taxonomy of School Evolutionary Stages
TweetRelease of 2016 Edition A Taxonomy of School Evolutionary Stages Roger Broadie and I have markedly updated our Taxonomy of School Evolutionary Stages A copy is freely available on the Douglas and Browne website at – http://douglasandbrown.com/publications/ As is Mal Lee’s and Martin Levin’s updated version of their work on BYOT and the Digital Evolution …
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Take Charge of Your School’s Growth
TweetMal Lee and Roger Broadie Schools, more than ever have to take charge of their own growth and evolution (Lee 2015) – Taking Charge of Your School’s Evolution – http://teacher.acer.edu.au/article/taking-charge-of-your-schools-evolution ). Only those within each unique school setting can hope to understand the intimate workings of that school and the myriad variables – human and …
Hub and Spoke Networking Model: On Reflection
TweetMal Lee, Paul Morris and Sue Lowe Near a year on from first mooting the idea of a hub and spoke networking model of system wide change, (Lee, Morris and Lowe, 2015) the authors can look back with considerable professional satisfaction at what has been achieved – intentionally and possibly unintentionally – in the last …
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24/7/365 Schooling: The Implications
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 …
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 …
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