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 …

Technology Agnostic

Tweet Mal Lee and Roger Broadie Recognise that in the school’s evolutionary journey and the quest to normalise the use of the digital you’ll be working towards a situation where the school is technology agnostic: where it doesn’t matter what personal technologies or operating systems those within the school community choose to use. So long …

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 …

Trust and School Evolution

TweetMal Lee and Roger Broadie Trust is critical to the digital evolution of the school and achieving digital normalisation. The principal needs to trust and empower all staff, the students, the parents and the supporting community. That trust will be repaid in numerous, very positive ways. Trust fundamentally changes the nature of the schooling and …

BYOT and the Digital Evolution of Schooling

Tweet Martin Levins and I have just released our 2016 edition of BYOT and the Digital Evolution of Schooling. It is now available free as an e-book. While building on our earlier 2012 publication for ACER Press on Bring Your Own Technology the new work addresses the rapid developments in the last four years and …

Response to suggested ban on smartphones

TweetFollowing the release of UK research by several economists contending that banning handhelds would enhance the learning of lower quartile secondary students Roger Broadie (UK) and I were asked by ACER’s Teacher magazine to pen a reply That response is now available in the Teacher – at http://www.teachermagazine.com.au/article/mobile-ban-raises-achievement-a-micro-view-of-a-macro-phenomenon  

The Educational Importance of BYOT

TweetBring Your Own Technology (BYOT) is critical in the digital evolution of schools, when normalising whole school use of the digital, and when shaping digitally-based school ecosystems. Ideally, young people should be trusted in the classroom to use the digital technologies they are already using in the ‘real world’ to enhance their learning. While the …

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 – …

BYOT Savings

TweetMal Lee and Martin Levins October 2014 BYOT can save schools and governments considerable monies and hassles forever on, while enhancing the quality and appropriateness of the schooling provided. In brief BYOT, and the natural next step, digital normalisation forever removes the onus on the school funding, selecting, maintaining and replacing every student’s rapidly evolving …