Great post. So true about territorial defense as the default mode. In schools the contentious piece is with IT support & teachers mostly. Very few of these relationships are truly collaborative in any sense (as most often it's reactionary, problem solving after the fact, not problem finding via collaboration in planning). IT typically doesn't grok the context for the user so they assume everyone has or can take 7 minutes to step through a troubleshoot when the smartboard doesn't connect-- they forget there are 22 kids sitting there and the lesson is only 50 mins, it's not like it is down in the IT office all silent and serene. The lack of collaboration means too that "edtech coaches" are often pushing new apps and whiz bang instead of continually heading off and solving core problems like onboardings for kids for new unit work, laptop setup optmization, and prepping accessories and setups for specific filming units, workflows for images after, etc.. I appreciated reading this as there are so many similarities to the hockey going on in schools when ideally it'd be collaboration more like ballet.
Great post. So true about territorial defense as the default mode. In schools the contentious piece is with IT support & teachers mostly. Very few of these relationships are truly collaborative in any sense (as most often it's reactionary, problem solving after the fact, not problem finding via collaboration in planning). IT typically doesn't grok the context for the user so they assume everyone has or can take 7 minutes to step through a troubleshoot when the smartboard doesn't connect-- they forget there are 22 kids sitting there and the lesson is only 50 mins, it's not like it is down in the IT office all silent and serene. The lack of collaboration means too that "edtech coaches" are often pushing new apps and whiz bang instead of continually heading off and solving core problems like onboardings for kids for new unit work, laptop setup optmization, and prepping accessories and setups for specific filming units, workflows for images after, etc.. I appreciated reading this as there are so many similarities to the hockey going on in schools when ideally it'd be collaboration more like ballet.