Digitizing the School Administration

Tweet Mal Lee and Roger Broadie An oft forgotten but increasingly important aspect of digital evolution and creating the desired increasingly effective and productive school ecosystem is the digitization of the school administration. In the same way, the move to a digital operational paradigm obliges the school to markedly transform its culture, organizational structures, teaching …

Optimising the Intended and Unintended Benefits

TweetThis is an extension of the earlier observation about linear and non-linear growth, and how schools should ready themselves. Mal Lee and Roger Broadie In going digital and creating an increasingly mature digitally based school ecosystem factor into your school’s growth and enhancement the very real likelihood of reaping an increasing number of unplanned, unintended …

Address the Totality, Not the Parts

TweetMal Lee and Roger Broadie One of the more challenging tasks in shaping a digitally based school ecosystem is to focus on the desired totality, not the parts. School leaders need to shed their traditional school development thinking and its preoccupation with the parts, and put to the fore the shaping of the new ever …

Schools Have to Go Digital to Remain Viable 2.0

TweetThis is the first of the 2016 series of short blogs on the digital evolution of schooling.  All posts in the series relate to the 10 Week Digital Leadership Programs. Mal Lee and Roger Broadie Schools in the developed world have to go digital if they are to remain viable (Lee and Broadie, 2015). In …

Digital Schools Grow Digital Communities

TweetMal Lee It is becoming increasingly apparent that when schools normalise the use of the digital, employ a mature digital ecosystem and become networked school communities the schools not only markedly enhance the learning of the students, but they also develop a synergistic relationship with their community, that assists both it and the school to …