Comments on: Personal vs. Group: It’s about people. http://teacherindevelopment.blogsome.com/2005/11/23/personal-vs-group-its-about-people/ The life and times of an English teacher in Mexico City Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:01:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Graham Wegner http://teacherindevelopment.blogsome.com/2005/11/23/personal-vs-group-its-about-people/#comment-61 Thu, 24 Nov 2005 04:20:13 +0000 http://teacherindevelopment.blogsome.com/2005/11/23/personal-vs-group-its-about-people/#comment-61 Another thing to consider about getting others involved is the realisation that not everyone will want to get involved, may even be fearful of being involved - they are quite happy (in their own mind) with having educator collegues to connect with only in their own place of work. The fear factor for some "immigrants" is that once they find how much (opportunity, conversation, learning)is out there, they will be obliged to step in and then realise that they have to change the whole mindset of how they approach teaching. And maybe they don't wanna change! In Australia, there is a term "a closed door teacher" - someone who closes the door physically in their classroom and metaphorically in their practice. They may well be the ones who people like you and I will have to let go because they resent the fact that the "traditional ways" of doing things in education are passing into irrelevance and it is too much work to re-invent yourself as an educator then. The connection to other people may not be the lure - it may well be the scariest component of social networking of all! Sorry this response isn't terribly constructive - my frustrations come from my own <a href="http://gwegner.edublogs.org/2005/11/23/blogging-conversations-in-the-staffroom/" rel="nofollow">battles with staff</a> who think all of this stuff is "beyond them." Another thing to consider about getting others involved is the realisation that not everyone will want to get involved, may even be fearful of being involved - they are quite happy (in their own mind) with having educator collegues to connect with only in their own place of work. The fear factor for some “immigrants” is that once they find how much (opportunity, conversation, learning)is out there, they will be obliged to step in and then realise that they have to change the whole mindset of how they approach teaching. And maybe they don’t wanna change! In Australia, there is a term “a closed door teacher” - someone who closes the door physically in their classroom and metaphorically in their practice. They may well be the ones who people like you and I will have to let go because they resent the fact that the “traditional ways” of doing things in education are passing into irrelevance and it is too much work to re-invent yourself as an educator then. The connection to other people may not be the lure - it may well be the scariest component of social networking of all! Sorry this response isn’t terribly constructive - my frustrations come from my own battles with staff who think all of this stuff is “beyond them.”

]]> by: Palimpsest redux http://teacherindevelopment.blogsome.com/2005/11/23/personal-vs-group-its-about-people/#comment-60 Wed, 23 Nov 2005 22:39:06 +0000 http://teacherindevelopment.blogsome.com/2005/11/23/personal-vs-group-its-about-people/#comment-60 <strong>The Essence of Social Software&#8230;</strong> The more I’ve thought about it, read about it around the blogsphere, and the more I’ve read the comments to my last post, the more I’ve begun to realize that no matter how digitized our world becomes, no matter how fast knowledge explodes, no ma... The Essence of Social Software…

The more I’ve thought about it, read about it around the blogsphere, and the more I’ve read the comments to my last post, the more I’ve begun to realize that no matter how digitized our world becomes, no matter how fast knowledge explodes, no ma…

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