The Digital Evolution of Schooling
Understanding and shaping the digital transformation of schooling
TweetMal Lee The COVID experience affirmed that within a networked world every young person must have ready use of the digital within their family home, if they are not to be disadvantaged educationally, socially, and economically. It is an imperative that many of us have been flagging for the last decade plus (Tapscott, 1998), (Lee …
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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 An integral part of schools transitioning to a more networked mode is readying them culturally and organisationally to continually provide the desired education in a world of accelerating, natural technological and societal evolution, transformation, and uncertainty, where the expectation will be that the schools will mirror the ways of society. That readying will …
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TweetMal Lee Society will expect, possibly unwittingly, the natural evolution and transformation evidenced in daily life and near ever organisation to be mirrored in its schools. It will moreover expect the lessons learned from the COVID experience also to be taken on board. In the last two years the transformative impact of these two developments …
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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