The Digital Evolution of Schooling
Understanding and shaping the digital transformation of schooling
TweetMal Lee The COVID experience not only accelerated the natural growth of the teachers’ digital mindset, and its application in teaching but it also sped the in-school use of the digital competencies the teachers were using every day in their personal lives. Both are developments that have profound implications for principals, school communities, education systems, …
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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 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 …
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, …
Tweet Sharing the experience Mal Lee Do you have a school, education authority, government review of how the school/s handled the COVID – 19 lockdown that we can share? Indeed if you would like to publish a reflective on your school’s experience in going digital we’d be delighted to publish those thoughts. Simply email Mal …
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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