BYOT and Digital Normalisation

Tweet Mal Lee and Roger Broadie Having all students use in class the suite of digital technologies they use 24/7/365 so naturally as to be near invisible is critical to the on-going digital evolution of the school. As Lee and Levin elaborate in their freely available (http://douglasandbrown.com/publications/) BYOT and the Digital Evolution of Schooling until …

BYOT and Digital Normalisation

TweetMal Lee and Roger Broadie Having all students use in class the suite of digital technologies they use 24/7/365 so naturally as to be near invisible is critical to the on-going digital evolution of the school. As Lee and Levin elaborate in their freely available (http://douglasandbrown.com/publications/) BYOT and the Digital Evolution of Schooling until schools …

Collaboration in Learning. Transcending the School Walls

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 …

Making learning addictive

TweetWe are increasingly addicted to our computers and phones. This is not an accident. The companies devising those online offerings that grab and hold our attention know precisely what they are doing. It was at a conference back in about 2008 that I first heard people talking about this, so the understanding of how to …

Marrying the in and out of school learning

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 …

Engaging each learner

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 …