The Digital Evolution of Schooling
Understanding and shaping the digital transformation of schooling
Tweet Mal Lee and Roger Broadie Children born into digitally connected families will likely by the age of three be displaying the key attributes of being digital: attributes they will evolve and naturally grow lifelong. It matters not whether the families are in the developed, underdeveloped or developing world. This development of the last decade, …
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Tweet Mal Lee and Roger Broadie Trust is critical to the young growing ‘being digital’ (Lee and Broadie, 2018a). Without trust the young will never normalise the use of the digital, and naturally enhance their use of and learning with the continually evolving digital technologies. It is a new reality that most schools and …
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 …