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 the young globally had for the past twenty plus years successfully readied the young worldwide to learn with the digital, from birth.
More than 60% of the world’s young are now digitally connected, and have normalised the 24/7/365 use of the digital – with no financial support from government.
We are delighted to be able to now share our insights into this historic educational development – with the release of Digitally Connected Families: And the Digital Education of the World’s Young, 1993 – 2016.
It is available at – http://douglasandbrown.com/publications/–
At this stage, it is only available as an e-book.
It is – as far as we know – the first historical analysis of the young’s learning with the digital, in and out of schools, in the period 1993 – 2016, from the release of Mosaic and the world going online, through to roughly today.
The desire was to provide a research base upon which the authors’ and others could build.
The chapters:
- Introduction
- The Digital Revolution and the Changed Nature of Youth, and Youth Education
- The Young, and the Evolution of the Personal Mobile Technologies
- Schools, Digital Education and Mobile Technologies
- The Evolution of the Digitally Connected Family
- The Two Models of Digital Education
- The Digital Learning Environments
- Learning with the Digital
- Pre-Primary Digital Education
- The Mobile Revolution
- On Reflection
- Conclusion