Mal Lee provides a macro understanding of schooling’s inevitable shift to normalise the use of the digital in all facets of the school’s operations, educational and administrative, in and outside the school walls; the school evolutionary process and stages, and how BYOT is but a phase – albeit key phase - in each school’s evolution. It is designed to enable you to quickly identify your school’s indicative position on the evolutionary stages continuum, the path and challenges ahead for your school, the time it will likely take to reach the digital normalisation stage and to appreciate the vital importance of BYOT, trust and individual choice in reaching that evolutionary stage. Mal draws upon the research he has conducted in the UK, US, NZ and Australia with the pathfinder schools that have or nearly normalised the use of the digital.

1. Digital normalisation, school
evolution and BYOT
Mal Lee
mallee@mac.com
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3. Desire to
• provide a global and Australian context for your work
• allow you to position your school and better understand the
path ahead
• position your own thinking
• underscore each school taking charge of its own evolution
• open your eyes to the implications of working with constant
change and evolution
“ I never predict. I simply look out the window and see what is
visible but not yet seen.” Peter Drucker
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4. Online support
http://www.malleehome.com
http://www.byot.me
http://www.schoolevolutionarystages.net
http://edfutures.net/Main_Page
Taxonomy of School Evolutionary Stages (Lee and
Broadie, in press)
• Work done on Digital Normalisation and School
Transformation (2014)
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5. Digital normalisation
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Reasoning behind term
Student, parent, societal normalisation
Rarity in schools globally
Lag - Why so?
Digital empowerment of school community
Inevitability?
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6. Paper&
based*
Early*
digital*
Digital*
Early*
networked*
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Networked*
Digital*
normalisation*

7. Evolutionary concepts
• Ever lengthening continuum
• International measure – with indicative
benchmarks
• Common stage attributes
• Movement through each stage
• Natural growth – digital base - global,
common
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8. Your school’s position?
• Your own thinking?
• Questions?
• Comments?
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9. School websites as stage indicators
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Article
Indicative
Ever evolving
Ever more integral and integrated
Trend line
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10. BYOT
• Bring your own technology (BYOT) is an educational
development and a supplementary school technology
resourcing model where the home and the school
collaborate in arranging for the young’s 24/7/365 use of
their own digital technology/ies to be extended into the
classroom to assist their teaching and learning and the
organisation of their schooling and where relevant the
complementary education outside the classroom (Lee
and Levins, 2012, p11)
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11. BYOT in context
• 1:1 computing, BYOD, BYOT and normalisation
• www.byot.me
• Educational philosophy
• Go directly to BYOT
• Questions? Clarification?
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12. Key strategic issues
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Ever-evolving school ecology
Ever-greater integration and transformation
Shaping educational vision
Role of principal
School as unit of change
School readiness
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13. Key strategic issues - 2
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Home-school collaboration/teaching
Empowerment
Technology leadership and management trends
Equity
SES and evolutionary position
Choice and trust
Global commonality
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14. Conclusion
Total school community understanding
Their awareness of the road ahead
Shaping apposite ecology
Thriving on constant change and
enhancement
• Monitoring the macro and micro
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16. mallee@mac.com
http://www.malleehome.com
Skype - malcolmrlee
+61 2 44 717947
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17. In Closing
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