I have not experienced a situation in the workplace where I have
encouraged people to use a new technology and have been met with resistance or
disappointing results. My teaching style is to explain my purpose for wanting
students to learn a new technology before I teach it and to make it applicable
to their lives. For example, several years ago, when blogs were just starting
to become popular, I incorporated blogs into the face-to-face composition class
I was teaching at a career college. I wanted my students to have a
technological edge over possible job competitors since in six weeks they would
be entering the job market. Also, these
students were not traditional academic students; most had not done well
academically in high school. I explained to my students that since blogs were
new and few in their particular professions would know how to design and use
them, it would be a good skill for them to learn and that it was fun and easy. It would be in their best interest
to know how, so they could volunteer to create one or suggest it to their future
company. I did not have anyone refuse, and everyone liked having an edge others
might not possess. Without knowing it, I was using Keller’s ARC (2005).
Driscoll, M. P. (2005). Psychology of learning for
instruction (3rd ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.
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