6. Understanding Your School’s Position

TweetMal Lee In transitioning to a more networked mode of schooling and teaching it is important for both teachers and heads to  have an in-depth understanding of the transition that has, and has not occurred  adjudge their school’s position and understand where it wants to move, and  contribute to shaping the desired future. It bears …

Let’s Get Serious About Remote Teaching

TweetMal Lee It is time for the world, and particularly its educators to get serious about remote teaching. Two years on it is time to accept that COVID and its variants will be part of our lives and schooling for years to come. It is also important to appreciate at the same time that key …

The Traditional School Structures Will Never Change

TweetMal Lee The core organisational structures of schooling were standardised around 1920. They remain the same today, with it ever more apparent they will never change.  For the last century billions have been spent seeking to vary the standard structures. It has born a veritable school change industry and the belief by governments globally that …

A Century of Traditional Schooling. With More to Come

TweetMal Lee Around 1920 the model of schooling we’ve known all our lives was standardised across the developed world. A century later the structure of the model remains the same, with no hint it is about to change. If anything, the permanence of what Tyack and Cuban (1995) aptly called ‘the grammar of schooling’ has …

Moving Schooling from a Paper to Digital Construct

TweetMal Lee and Roger Broadie One of the greater challenges facing schooling globally is to open the minds of school educators and governments to the reality that most schools are still paper based human constructs, employing Industrial Age structures, processes and cultures, that will increasingly struggle to provide an apt contemporary education in a digital …

Reality, and Leading a Digital School

TweetR A message for the visionaries Mal Lee and Roger Broadie Schools, like every organisation should be operating within a digital construct, with the digital underpinning all learning and operations, continually shaping their digitally based ecosystem to ensure all students secure an apt, contemporary, holistic and strongly individualised education. All principals, at least in our …

The Challenge of Creating a Digital School

TweetMal Lee and Roger Broadie The challenge of leading, growing and sustaining the evolution of a digital school is immense. Few globally have succeeded in creating, let alone sustaining the evolution of such schools. Few school leaders have moved schools from a paper to a digitally based construct. Hundreds of thousands have acquired extensive digital …

Five Conditions Critical for Sustained Learning with the Digital

Tweet Mal Lee and Roger Broadie The young and their digitally connected families globally have highlighted over the last twenty-five plus years five conditions critical to the young’s natural sustained learning with the digital (Lee and Broadie, in press) (Twining et.al, 2017). Not the schools. Those conditions are: Ready access to personal, preferably mobile technologies …

Parent Responsibility for Learning with the Digital

Tweet  Mal Lee [ This is intended as a discussion starter for use with both the parents and the staff, addressing a core issue rarely discussed]. The moment you give your children the digital technology you are responsible for its use and your children’s learning with the digital. Not the school, not government, nor the …