Change Management #4

You might wonder what qualifies me to write about cultural change in an organisation. Well, I’ve done it several times, and I thought I’d set myself the challenge of trying to describe some of the success stories I’ve enjoyed in 250 words or fewer.

My main motivation in writing these vignettes is that I keep meeting depressed people: people who are in such a dire situation that they have started to believe that they will never be able to change it.

So what I should like to do is provide very brief case studies comprising the before and after, but not the during: my aim is to uplift, rather than instruct, in these stories. That's why I aim to publish them on a Friday: so you can go home full of hope rather than despondency!

This week's vignette concerns being timetabled for two hour lessons, with some pretty challenging (behaviour-wise) kids.

Reports of online sex offending are greatly exaggerated. So what?

In a thoughtful and well-researched article about the extent of online sex offending, with much discussion about what sorts of thing constitute sex offending in legal terms, Stephanie Booth shows what I have long suspected, that the reality is less scary than we are led to believe.

But I have to ask: so what?

Facebook face-off

This video, which I came across accidentally on YouTube, raises some interesting issues I think. Watch it, and then consider the questions which follow... :-)

Twittering in the classroom: some issues

There has been quite a bit of discussion recently about the use of Twitter as an educational tool. But it seems to me that the proponents of classroom twittering have not fully thought out some of the implications of its use in terms of either management or inclusion.