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 …
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9. Schools as Networked Organisations
TweetMal Lee All teachers and heads, and indeed all school decision makers should understand the workings of schools operating as networked organisations, the impact the new mode will have on their teaching and the school, the possibilities open and the implications that flow. So too they should recognise the uniqueness of schools as networked organisations, …
8. Trust, Empowerment, Agency and Networked School Communities
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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4. Schools and the Evolving New Normals
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 …
3.Inexorable Natural Evolution
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 …
2. COVID and The Transition
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, …
Transitioning from Traditional to Networked Schooling
Tweet Transitioning from Traditional to Networked Schooling Mal Lee Schooling worldwide is moving inexorably from its traditional, largely stand-alone, strongly paper based mode to one that is increasingly networked and digital. The extent of the transition has already been profound, even in the more conservative of schools, far more than most likely have realised, on …
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A Century of the Standard Model of Schooling
TweetMal Lee 2020 marked a century’s use of the standard model of schooling. Standardised across the developed world from around 1920 the core elements of the model adopted by schools then remain largely unchanged a 100 plus years on – it long being accepted as the norm globally. It is very easy to forget how long …
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COVID -19 and Digital Schooling
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 …
Schools as Perpetual Organisations. The Educational and Societal Implications
TweetMal Lee and Roger Broadie With many schools, already more than a century old, it is time to recognise schools are in the main perpetual organisations – that have been critical to local communities, and society at large for generations, and will likely remain so for aeons more. While ever there are students in a …
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