![]() ![]() ![]() This is where the concept of digital leadership really comes into play. In a world where technology is becoming more and more embedded by the minute, it is incumbent upon leaders, regardless of position, to replace the conceptual view of school with a more meaningful one. Paradigm shifts need to be driven by change agents in classrooms, schools, districts, and other educational organizations across the globe. For a paradigm shift to occur and be sustained, it must be driven by change agents who are willing to disrupt the status quo embedded in the global education system. This sounds great in theory, but it won’t just happen. Thus a paradigm shift constitutes a change from one way of thinking to another to spur a revolution that transforms learning and professional practice. As Thomas Kuhn (1970) argues, scientific advancement is not evolutionary, but rather is a "series of peaceful interludes punctuated by intellectually violent revolutions", and in those revolutions, "one conceptual worldview is replaced by another". Maybe evolution is not the right approach for education, but rather a concerted focus on paradigm shifts to professional practice. The domino effect here could be catastrophic to our economy and the world, as we know it. However, if schools and leaders do not take cues from history, it is only a matter of time before they suffer the same fate of obsolescence. The pressure to conform to a world that solely equates school success to standardized metrics is, for all intents and purposes, the reason why we are not seeing disruptive innovation at scale. All one has to do is walk into a school and for the most part, one will see the same structure and function that has dominated for the past 100 years. With all the change the world is now experiencing, it is quite dumbfounding, to say the least, as to why schools and education remain static when it comes to change. The dying taxi industry and Blockbuster provide stark reminders of this fact. Either adapt and evolve or become obsolete and extinct. It's a dog-eat-dog world in the digital age. The types of disruption we are seeing are improving effectiveness, efficiency, and results. ![]() Make no mistake about it technology is shaping the world in ways that we could never have imagined. Disruptive innovations, such as Uber and Netflix, have begun to dramatically alter consumer behaviors, in many cases for the better. At this point, change began to happen at a rapid pace. It all began around 2003 when the smartphone wars started with Blackberry but were quickly taken over by the Apple iPhone in 2007. Just a few years ago, it would have been near impossible to predict some of the paradigm shifts we have experienced. The world continues to change as a result of technological advances. ![]()
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