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 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 …
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TweetMal Lee Teachers within the more networked mode of schooling should ideally play the dual role of teaching specialist and education generalist. They need to be very good at teaching their speciality/ies and to also have a macro understanding of the school’s increasingly integrated, socially networked operations to assist grow the student and staff learning …
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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 …
Tweet Mal Lee and Roger Broadie Recognise that in the school’s evolutionary journey and the quest to normalise the use of the digital you’ll be working towards a situation where the school is technology agnostic: where it doesn’t matter what personal technologies or operating systems those within the school community choose to use. So long …
Tweet Mal Lee and Roger Broadie In venturing into staff development in the digital school the authors do so with some trepidation in that we have not experienced in our research as clear a global picture as was found in the other areas of school evolution. It might well be that the order has yet …
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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 …
TweetMal Lee and Roger Broadie Tellingly all the schools studied have gradually but very surely empowered their total school community – giving their teachers, professional support staff, students, families and the school’s wider community- a greater voice in the school’s teaching, learning, resourcing and direction setting – markedly expanding the school’s capability and improving its …
TweetMal Lee and Roger Broadie While the empowerment of the total school community is very important what is critical is the empowering of all one’s paid staff – the teachers and the professional support – and having them use their full professional capability to continually grow the school. For too long schooling has failed to …