Re: Technology Stewardship or "What Tool Should I use to do X?"
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Thanks for raising this, Mike. Yesterday, I was traveling to schools across the Bay Area. Today, I am rapidly preparing resources for schools before they start temporary school dismissals for the next 2 weeks. They have definitely raised concerns about how much information is being sent to them. I was grateful for their framing, ¡°The most important thing is anxiety. People are feeling anxious. If we start from this as the most important thing, then we know we¡¯re not asking anyone to learn a new technology right now.¡±
Mike, I think you are getting to the heart of technology stewardship, versus just grabbing at tools. There are some worksheets on the Digital Habitat's site that suggests "start with purpose" and then define which activities?support that purpose. Then, only then, think about tools to support. We can easily overbuild.?
Today I'm co-facilitating a group of 60 F2F and 20 online - on the fly. I could not go because of family members with fevers and some of our group have health vulnerabilities. So we made it happen. We decided to JUST stick with Zoom and Google tools for documentation and shared visualization. For the post part it has been amazing. I think if we had introduced one more tool, we would have broken down.?
Simplicity is a great thing.??
On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 8:06 AM Mike Pounsford < Mikep@...> wrote:
My strengths are in F2F facilitation but for obvious reasons I am trying to catch up on what others are doing in the online space.? Heard lots about Slido, Mentimeter for online votes and capturing sentiment,
Stormz and Mural for collaboration, - ?Klaxon, UMU, Mindmeister, PollEv etc I know I am just scratching the surface.?
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My question is that the rush for tools may blind us to the importance of emotional and human connection on line.? Just the simple step of breaking a large group in Zoom to small breakouts on structured and
relevant questions, and the judicious use of one or two tools to generate collaborative ideas ¨C these things are important and make a big difference to the engagement, memorability and impact of the learning online.
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My concern is that we balance finding one or two appropriate tools with designing online processes that engage people not because they are clicking responses but because they are talking to and learning from
each other.? I¡¯m a big fan of Liberating Structures but even when I have been to sessions where we experiment and learn I fear that too much emphasis is put on the technology of collaboration rather than the substance of what we are learning from the exchanges
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Best wishes
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