The Digital Evolution of Schooling
Understanding and shaping the digital transformation of schooling
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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TweetMal Lee and Roger Broadie The art of sustaining, and building upon core organisational change is very different to that of making the initial change. That is something that is slowly being realised in the general organisational change literature. It doesn’t appear to have been widely grasped in school organisational change. Rather the focus there …
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 …
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 Oh, wise ones A national policy question for a group highly versed in the impact of the digital. The scenario Developed nations have for the first time in human history a near universally digitally connected young – with considerable agency over their 24/7/365 use of the digital – who, with the support …
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TweetMal Lee and Roger Broadie On first glance this might appear to be an unusual topic to include in the digital evolution of schooling. You’ll not see mention of it in any school planning document. But the reality is that every school, small and large and indeed every organisation seeking to evolve digitally needs leaders …