MyNotes - Leave your hat on!
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Thanks to Dan McGuire for pointing to this blog entry. This blog entry—excerpts below—is too real for me.
[Leave your hat on! «](http://deangroom.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/blog-about-your-hat)-
Wearing **too many hats** is often cited as problematic when you are trying to grow your business. Sometimes businesses endure unnecessary strain simply because the right people aren’t responsible for the right jobs.
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In some cases, it can impede growth or even result in a net loss for the business.The solution recommended by most business advisors is to re-structure the workplace. Restructuring roles and responsibilities in the business and assess your company’s activities in the marketplace.
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The **too many hat syndrome** is a by product of becoming an advocate for change from 20th Century to 21st Century Learning.
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Our enthusiasm to refocus our learning and restructure pedagogy is extra-curricula professional development and invisible/misunderstood to many administrators and executives – who don’t read blogs or write them.
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At some point you need _your new hat collection to be recognised_ as **important – both to you and your school community.** Job change, career move, success, parent communication, peer engagement … there are lots of personal reasons that make it important to have a blog – and relatively few not to. Having a blog also encourages you to read blogs and makes you much more likely to go read a book. The more you read, the more you write – the more you THINK about learning.
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Trying to convince a CEO of anything is a little like trying to convince a cop not to give you a ticket. It’s possible, but rarely worth the effort, given the odds. [Seth Godin](http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/10/an-interview.html)
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To a small group, you are the ‘goto’ person for a while, but at the same time, you are also seen by other tribes (and schools are tribal) – as a serious concern.
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I think that the 21C Teacher has certain characteristics – and a blog is the evidence of that.
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- Uses technology to support learning in and out of the classroom
- Undertakes self-directed professional development in learning communities
- Provides peer coaching and support – to teachers outside of their school and within
- Is a teacher
- Is a learner
- Engages in student centered learning activities, using freely available Web2.0 tools
- Is an integrator
- Shares experiences with others online
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In doing this, they will talk about the following things
- The shift from prescribed passive to authentic read/write activities
- Collaborative Learning
- Inquiry based Learning
- Connected Learning
- Media Literacy (not information literacy)
- Creating ‘content’ not ‘copying’ content
- Develops a sense of mystery and wonder in learning
- Explores online communities and rethinking how to use technology in multi-modal ways
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