Reflections on the Steve Jobs Schools

TweetIt’s interesting to see that seven Steve Jobs Schools have opened in the Netherlands, equipped obviously with iPads for all the pupils. It will be interesting to watch how they develop. Just putting the technology in does not make a school digitally normalised. That depends on how the school leaders and teachers have themselves progressed …

Constancy and Sameness: On-going Evolution and Uniqueness

TweetMal Lee Few teachers, principals or head teachers will have failed to notice the ever-greater transformative impact digital technology is having upon schooling. Few parents will have failed to see the very considerable impact of the digital on their workplace and the fundamental structural and organisational changes that technology has occasioned and continues to occasion …

Application of the Evolutionary Continuum

Tweet In constructing the school evolutionary stages continuum and in writing the soon to be released Taxonomy of School Evolutionary Stages our desire was to provide all associated with schooling globally a simple measure they could readily apply to position their school and identify the road that lies ahead for their school. We’ve consciously aimed …

Helping schools along the evolutionary path

TweetWe hope that people and organisations that are working with schools, to help them advance their educational offering, will make use of the evolutionary stages taxonomy and the resources you will find in this blog. We do however have a concern that sometimes those leading programmes for teachers and school leaders do not practice what …

Evolution of Digital Technology in Schools

TweetClosely related to the work done by Roger and Mal is that being undertaken by Professor Peter Twining from the Open University. Peter is researching the evolving use of digital technology in schools, initially in the UK and soon in Australia. Details of Peter’s early findings can be viewed at -http://edfutures.net/Digital_technology_trends