Comments on: Gapingvoid's Three C's Remixed http://www.thethinkingstick.com/gapingvoids-three-cs-remixed/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gapingvoids-three-cs-remixed Educator Consultant Author Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:34:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Are you a changer, contributer, or coaster? « Cycling Through Ed Tech http://www.thethinkingstick.com/gapingvoids-three-cs-remixed/#comment-3371 Are you a changer, contributer, or coaster? « Cycling Through Ed Tech Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:16:01 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=720#comment-3371 [...] you a changer, contributer, or coaster? August 19, 2008 at 9:15 pm | In Teaching | Thanks Jeff Utecht for this thought provoking post as he remixed some of Gapingvoid’s work. Here’s a [...] [...] you a changer, contributer, or coaster? August 19, 2008 at 9:15 pm | In Teaching | Thanks Jeff Utecht for this thought provoking post as he remixed some of Gapingvoid’s work. Here’s a [...]

]]> By: ddigerati http://www.thethinkingstick.com/gapingvoids-three-cs-remixed/#comment-3370 ddigerati Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:24:13 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=720#comment-3370 I came across this post while looking for something to inspire the incoming freshmen at my school tomorrow. I think it is also perfect at helping describe students as well. Hopefully I can use this to explain to them that everything they produce or are part of is an opportunity to improve the world around them. I think it is very easy to be a contributor and coaster, but very difficult to become a changer. The changers are the ones who see possibility beyond the status quo. Unfortunately, most get discouraged by bureaucracy, lack of time, and old paradigms to dare to push the envelope. Which brings us back to the common question to instructional technologists, how do we motivate our teachers to become changers?! I came across this post while looking for something to inspire the incoming freshmen at my school tomorrow. I think it is also perfect at helping describe students as well. Hopefully I can use this to explain to them that everything they produce or are part of is an opportunity to improve the world around them.
I think it is very easy to be a contributor and coaster, but very difficult to become a changer. The changers are the ones who see possibility beyond the status quo. Unfortunately, most get discouraged by bureaucracy, lack of time, and old paradigms to dare to push the envelope. Which brings us back to the common question to instructional technologists, how do we motivate our teachers to become changers?!

]]> By: Catshanghai http://www.thethinkingstick.com/gapingvoids-three-cs-remixed/#comment-3369 Catshanghai Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:32:40 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=720#comment-3369 Good, thoughtful post. Is there not a 4th C in busoness, politics and education? Controllers are those who seek to maintain the status quo, because change represents a worrying challenge to existing paradigms, power relationships and business models. Examples of controlling behaviour include blanket blocking of social network sites and a refusal to allow stuents to make derivative works using archived film footage. Good, thoughtful post. Is there not a 4th C in busoness, politics and education?

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are those who seek to maintain the status quo, because change represents a worrying challenge to existing paradigms, power relationships and business models. Examples of controlling behaviour include blanket blocking of social network sites and a refusal to allow stuents to make derivative works using archived film footage.

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