The Digital Evolution of Schooling
Understanding and shaping the digital transformation of schooling
TweetMal Lee Overnight the corona virus has obliged society and the educational decision makers to rethink the nature of schooling in a connected world – in a way few other events have. There is a societal focus on the role of schooling, and online education the world has rarely seen. It has opened the window …
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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 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 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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Tweet Mal Lee and Roger Broadie Children born into digitally connected families will likely be digitally connected and proficient by the age of three, be operating in the state of being digital, and have adopted the natural mode of learning with the digital they will use throughout life. The implications of this quite recent global …
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Tweet Mal Lee and Roger Broadie In 1995 Nicholas Negroponte wrote in his seminal work of ‘being digital’. The book didn’t define what was meant by ‘being digital’, but simply exemplified what it was likely to mean. Twenty plus years later, and the movement from an analogue to digital society and with more than half …
Tweet Mal Lee and Roger Broadie Mal Lee and Lorrae Ward published their research on the growing school – home nexus in 2013 in their ACER Press publication Collaboration in Learning: Transcending the School Walls. That work not only examined the nature of the collaboration in case study schools in the UK, US, NZ and …
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Tweet Mal Lee and Roger Broadie The rationale is simple. Integrate the teaching and learning of the school with that happening outside its walls and the education of every child can be markedly enhanced. Make better use of both the 80% of the child’s annual learning and teaching time spent outside the schoolroom and the …
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Tweet Mal Lee and Roger Broadie In shaping the digital evolution of your school and creating the desired 24/7/365 teaching and learning environment we suggest it is important to address something schools have not done well – engage each and every learner. Take advantage of the digital operational base and the opportunities opened by the …
Tweet Mal Lee and Roger Broadie This hopefully will challenge the conventional thinking – that is still largely schooling children for the 1950s. All schools should in their teaching today be guided by a curriculum for digital and socially networked society, where the young are in essence being schooled 24/7/365. All ideally need a curriculum …
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