10. Teachers as Reflective Practitioners in Networked Schools

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 …

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 …

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 …

The Traditional Features of Schooling

Tweet Mal Lee and Roger Broadie Most schools worldwide today have the same core features as those in the 1960’s, with many the same as schools in the late nineteenth century. In examining the history of schooling over the last century, and particularly since the shock of Sputnik in 1957, and reflecting on our own …

The Importance of Students Using Their Own Digital Kit.

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 …

Trust and Being Digital

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 …

Empower and Educate: Not Ban

Tweet  Avoid Damaging the Schools  Mal Lee and Roger Broadie Being digital in a universally connected world is a core educational capability all the young will require. At first glance, it is logical to expect schools to lead the way in growing that capability. When a nation like France decides to ban the use of …

BYOT and Digital Normalisation

TweetMal Lee and Roger Broadie Having all students use in class the suite of digital technologies they use 24/7/365 so naturally as to be near invisible is critical to the on-going digital evolution of the school. As Lee and Levin elaborate in their freely available (http://douglasandbrown.com/publications/) BYOT and the Digital Evolution of Schooling until schools …

Getting Your Staff to Fly

TweetMal Lee and Roger Broadie In empowering your professionals the ultimate desire should be to have those staff fly, and for them to use their professionalism and the trust and autonomy accorded to continually search for the best possible education in a continually evolving world. Lipnack and Stamps (1994, p18) in identifying the underlying principles …