13. The Digital Competencies of Teachers. Their Growth

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, …

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 …

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 …

Corona Virus, Schools and the Window of Opportunity

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 …

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 …

Is Sustained Core School Change Possible?

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 …

Being Digital and Knowing How to Learn

Tweet Mal Lee and Roger Broadie The digitally connected young of the world in naturally growing their being digital (Lee and Broadie, 2018 a) have increasingly taken charge of their learning with the technology, and developed –  invariably unwittingly – the vital art of knowing how to learn autonomously. It is a core educational capability …

The Importance of Students Using Their Own Digital Kit.

Tweet Mal Lee and Roger Broadie This seemingly mundane management issue, that most educators view as just that, challenges the very nature of schooling. Are schools in democracies places where the state compels a compliant youth to learn what and how government believes is appropriate, or are they organisations that assist an increasingly digitally empowered …

The Many Strengths of Digitally Connected Families

Tweet  Mal Lee and Roger Broadie It will likely come as a surprise to most teachers and governments but the new reality is that the digitally connected families of the developed world are far better positioned than schools to grow the children’s being digital from birth, and to lead their learning with the digital. At …