Digitally Connected Families

Tweet Mal Lee and Roger Broadie (This is the first of four short blogs on the work we are currently undertaking on the impact of the digitally connected families of the world on the 24/7/365 digital education of the young, in the period 1993 – 2016.  For years the focus has been on the schools. …

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 …

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, …

Invitation to Join Digital Evolution of Schooling Google Group

TweetRoger Broadie, Martin Levins and Mal Lee have created a new a new forum – using Google groups – for those globally interested in advancing, researching and analysing the digital evolution and transformation of schooling. We are looking at those leading the way in the pathfinder schools those monitoring and researching their moves the education …

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 …

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 – …

The Different Rate of Primary School Evolution

TweetMal Lee Primary, or what others know as elementary or preparatory, schools operating on a digital base are on trend to evolve faster then secondary/high schools, and to adopt an ever higher order mode of teaching, with all the concomitant implications. The pathfinder primary schools are that step ahead in their evolution of their secondary …

Complexity Science and School Evolution

Tweet  Mal Lee and Roger Broadie The evolutionary nature of schooling, its remarkable global similarity, the existence of the six evolutionary stages, the emergence of ever higher order schooling, evermore integrated and complex schools and the increasing importance of unique living school ecologies needing to have operational responsibility for their own growth should bid educators …

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.

A Taxonomy of School Evolutionary Stages

TweetRoger Broadie and I have posted on under the new Taxonomy section of this site and at http://www.BroadieAssociates.co.uk a copy of our Taxonomy of School Evolutionary Stages and the complementary publication Evolution through the Threads. Both publications are free. We’d strongly suggest downloading both publications. The Taxonomy posits, as mentioned in earlier posts that schools globally …