The Digital Evolution of Schooling
Understanding and shaping the digital transformation of schooling
TweetMal Lee The new normal that is going to seriously challenge most likely every school and education system is the expectation that learning with the digital, in a socially networked world will be strongly individualised. The individual will expect to make the key decisions, not have the state. Allied will be the growing recognition that …
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TweetMal Lee All teachers should be reflective practitioners. The need is that much greater when teaching within the more networked mode. Natural digital evolution, the pace and magnitude of the organisational transformation, the expectation that schools will continually accommodate the new normal, and the increased dependence on dynamic social networks should oblige all teachers to …
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TweetMal Lee All teachers and heads, and indeed all school decision makers should understand the workings of schools operating as networked organisations, the impact the new mode will have on their teaching and the school, the possibilities open and the implications that flow. So too they should recognise the uniqueness of schools as networked organisations, …
TweetMal Lee Central to life within a networked society is trust, empowerment, and agency. All digitally connected peoples, but particularly the young expect to be trusted to use and learn with the digital as desired, with the agency to use the capability largely unfettered. People want to have control of their use of and learning …
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