Digital strategy that starts with learning
Why a digital strategy is a teaching and learning strategy, and how to build one that holds. 6 articles, best read in this order.
Clarity and coherence: the two tests of a digital strategyA school digital strategy works when it has clarity of purpose and coherence between values and tools. Get those right and the rest follows.
What IT audits show: the technology is rarely the problemIn this year’s school reviews, the devices and networks were mostly fine. What held schools back was who made the technology decisions, and who was left out of them.
The digital paradox: why to invest in digital training is to invest in teaching and learningDigital training in schools is teaching and learning training. Here is why cutting it cuts the very thing schools say matters most.
From exercise book to operating system: rethinking teaching and learning strategy in the age of AIContent, activity and communication have always been the work of a classroom. I trace how teaching and learning strategy has moved from exercise books to platforms to AI, and what should stay constant.
What KCSIE 2026 means for your school’s digital strategyKCSIE 2026 brings AI into statutory safeguarding. Here is what it means for your school’s digital strategy, and where compliance ends and strategy begins.
The blacksmith’s wooden knife: on building a tool I could believe inIn the blacksmith’s house, a wooden knife. Why I finally built a free digital strategy diagnostic for schools, what building it taught me, and what it suggests about AI’s place in education.