The Digital Evolution of Schooling
Understanding and shaping the digital transformation of schooling
TweetMal Lee Overnight the corona virus has obliged society and the educational decision makers to rethink the nature of schooling in a connected world – in a way few other events have. There is a societal focus on the role of schooling, and online education the world has rarely seen. It has opened the window …
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Tweet Mal Lee and Roger Broadie The digitally connected young of the world in naturally growing their being digital (Lee and Broadie, 2018 a) have increasingly taken charge of their learning with the technology, and developed – invariably unwittingly – the vital art of knowing how to learn autonomously. It is a core educational capability …
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 …
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Tweet Mal Lee and Roger Broadie It will likely come as a surprise to most teachers and governments but the new reality is that the digitally connected families of the developed world are far better positioned than schools to grow the children’s being digital from birth, and to lead their learning with the digital. At …
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Tweet Mal Lee Oh, wise ones A national policy question for a group highly versed in the impact of the digital. The scenario Developed nations have for the first time in human history a near universally digitally connected young – with considerable agency over their 24/7/365 use of the digital – who, with the support …
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Tweet Avoid Damaging the Schools Mal Lee and Roger Broadie Being digital in a universally connected world is a core educational capability all the young will require. At first glance, it is logical to expect schools to lead the way in growing that capability. When a nation like France decides to ban the use of …
Tweet Mal Lee and Roger Broadie Three years ago, we embarked in researching the history of the digital education of the world’s young between 1993 and 2016, concerned the world’s schools were making little progress in going digital. The journey took us into unchartered, and largely unseen and yet fascinating territory where the families of …
Tweet Mal Lee and Roger Broadie Children born into digitally connected families will likely be digitally connected and proficient by the age of three, be operating in the state of being digital, and have adopted the natural mode of learning with the digital they will use throughout life. The implications of this quite recent global …
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Tweet Mal Lee and Roger Broadie In 1995 Nicholas Negroponte wrote in his seminal work of ‘being digital’. The book didn’t define what was meant by ‘being digital’, but simply exemplified what it was likely to mean. Twenty plus years later, and the movement from an analogue to digital society and with more than half …
TweetMal Lee The article posted yesterday on the young’s out of school learning with the digital raises all manner of questions, and potentially has many profound implications for the education and schooling of the young. It addresses a series of global developments that have thus far rarely been discussed or even considered by educators. In …