15. School Networking and Digital Equity of Access

TweetMal Lee The COVID experience affirmed that within a networked world every young person must have ready use of the digital within their family home, if they are not to be disadvantaged educationally, socially, and economically.  It is an imperative that many of us have been flagging for the last decade plus (Tapscott, 1998), (Lee …

14. Schools and Digitally Connected Families

TweetMal Lee COVID informed societies worldwide that the digitally connected families of the young had the digital technology and competencies to continue to play a major, often lead role in the education of the nation’s young. Leave aside for the moment that the family has always been the children’s first teacher, but since the early …

12. The Imperative of a Digital Mindset in Networked Schools

TweetMal Lee To succeed in a disrupted world, leaders will need to forge an agile and connected enterprise with a future-focused workforce. For both individuals and organizations, there needs to be a reconciling of the demand for digital skills to deploy and manage technology, and the human skills to live and work with this technology. Positioning …

Schooling 2050

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 …

5. Accommodating the new normals in schools

TweetMal Lee An integral part of schools transitioning to a more networked mode is readying them culturally and organisationally to continually provide the desired education in a world of accelerating, natural technological and societal evolution, transformation, and uncertainty, where the expectation will be that the schools will mirror the ways of society. That readying will …

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 …

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 …

Digital Equity of Access

TweetMal Lee Equity of access to the digital technology is vital for all the nation’s young. Indeed one could argue it is so from around the age of two or three, the stage when most in digitally connected families begin growing being digital (Chaudron, 2015). Ideally in a digital world every young person should have …

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 …