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 …
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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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Schools as Digital Constructs
TweetMal Lee and Roger Broadie In moving schooling from a paper to digital construct the way is opened to shift to an increasingly sophisticated, powerful, flexible and naturally evolving operational base, and allow schools to continually provide an apt, ever richer, contemporary 24/7/365 education. Critically the shift in thinking enables schools and systems to better …
Silo Like to Integrated Schools
TweetMal Lee and Roger Broadie A significant part of your digital evolutionary journey will be the school’s historic movement from its inefficient silo like organisational structure of Industrial Age origins to an increasingly integrated, efficient and productive one befitting a digital and socially networked society. You’ll shift from the traditional arrangement where the various cells …
Release of 2016 Edition A Taxonomy of School Evolutionary Stages
TweetRelease of 2016 Edition A Taxonomy of School Evolutionary Stages Roger Broadie and I have markedly updated our Taxonomy of School Evolutionary Stages A copy is freely available on the Douglas and Browne website at – http://douglasandbrown.com/publications/ As is Mal Lee’s and Martin Levin’s updated version of their work on BYOT and the Digital Evolution …
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Position on Digital Evolutionary Continuum
Tweet Mal Lee and Roger Broadie Before embarking on your school’s digital evolutionary journey you need to know where you are and the likely path ahead. The authors’ have developed an international measure that provides that facility. We’ve identified a now seven point evolutionary scale and a set of explanatory benchmarks that readily allows you, …
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BYOT and the Digital Evolution of Schooling
Tweet Martin Levins and I have just released our 2016 edition of BYOT and the Digital Evolution of Schooling. It is now available free as an e-book. While building on our earlier 2012 publication for ACER Press on Bring Your Own Technology the new work addresses the rapid developments in the last four years and …
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2015 edition of the Taxonomy of School Evolutionary Stages
TweetThe 2015 edition of the Taxonomy of School Evolutionary Stages is now available for free download from the Taxonomy sub-section of this site This edition updates the attributes displayed by schools operating at the Digital Normalisation evolutionary stage. While the digital evolution and transformation of all manner of businesses is literally discussed daily in both …
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ACER Teacher Digital Evolution Series
TweetMal Lee has written for ACER’s online Teacher magazine in a series of brief research papers on the digital evolution of schooling. They include: School evolution: A common global phenomenon – http://teacher.acer.edu.au/article/school-evolution-a-common-global-phenomenon Digital Normalisation: The Imperative for all Schools – http://teacher.acer.edu.au/article/digital-normalisation-the-imperative-for-all-schools Taking Charge of Your School’s Evolution – http://teacher.acer.edu.au/article/taking-charge-of-your-schools-evolution Digital Schools: An Evolving Ecosystem – …
Article in ACER’s Teacher on School Evolutionary Stages
TweetMal has an article in the inaugural edition of ACER’s new online magazine Teacher on the global school evolutionary stages. Simply go to – http://teacher.acer.edu.au/article/school-evolution-a-common-global-phenomenon.