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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TweetMal Lee To succeed in a disrupted world, leaders will need to forge an agile and connected enterprise with a future-focused workforce. For both individuals and organizations, there needs to be a reconciling of the demand for digital skills to deploy and manage technology, and the human skills to live and work with this technology. Positioning …
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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 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 Equity of access to the digital technology is vital for all the nation’s young. Indeed one could argue it is so from around the age of two or three, the stage when most in digitally connected families begin growing being digital (Chaudron, 2015). Ideally in a digital world every young person should have …
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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TweetI An alert for those wanting to lead a digital school. Mal Lee and Roger Broadie The historic, universal, unwritten assumptions are that fundamental school change is not only possible, but is desired by those in authority and can be readily sustained. Underpinning virtually every education plan and staff development program in the last century …
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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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Tweet Mal Lee and Roger Broadie Children born into digitally connected families will likely by the age of three be displaying the key attributes of being digital: attributes they will evolve and naturally grow lifelong. It matters not whether the families are in the developed, underdeveloped or developing world. This development of the last decade, …
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Tweet Mal Lee and Roger Broadie Trust is critical to the young growing ‘being digital’ (Lee and Broadie, 2018a). Without trust the young will never normalise the use of the digital, and naturally enhance their use of and learning with the continually evolving digital technologies. It is a new reality that most schools and …