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Understanding what can and should be shared openly is a digital literacy, and it takes time to build.
Is this what makes the leap too risky? Not so much the time, but making mistakes along the way?
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Open practice by senior leaders encourages the participation of the entire learning community, and helps all stakeholders in public education find their voice.
Helps to reduce fear, to normalize the practice, and opens up opportunity for conversation within the learning community that otherwise might not exist.
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We should be continually asking the question, “can we make this public?” If that seems too radical, then a smaller step might be the question, “is there any reason why this shouldn’t be shared with everyone at the organisation?”
Doug suggests that bad things happen quickly. If we don't make things public, if we don't share with everyone in the organization, we run the risk of people doing their own thing, filling in the gaps with their own story. These are rarely good things for an organization.
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Doug Belshaw has summarized the idea of working open in education here.
"Every time we don’t have the right people in the room to make a decision, every time we have to request access to a document, and every time we have to ask permission to make a positive change, we suffer friction." from http://dmlcentral.net/importance-working-open-education/
Great line.
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Every time we don’t have the right people in the room to make a decision, every time we have to request access to a document, and every time we have to ask permission to make a positive change, we suffer friction.
100%. I appreciate the frankness of this statement. I think I often experience the friction and not truly understand what it is I am feeling.
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