Fundamental Questions

Shared Goals and Significant Differences - Hopes and Fears

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These questions help members of a group to identify their most important shared goals and any significant differences in their hopes and fears - especially "Dangerous Discussions" issues. The suggested activities can provide a good foundation for further discussion, for setting priorities, and the work of a TLT Roundtable or other group.

One of the greatest challenges in any discussion of important change is to distinguish between those elements that need to be transformed and those that need to be preserved. The Fundamental Questions activity reminds participants that information technology can be used appropriately and effectively both for transformation of what needs to be changed and for preservation of what is most cherished in teaching and learning.

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Please add your own responses to the 3 Fundamental Questions below.

Fundamental Question #1 - Hopes, Gains

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1. What do you most want to gain? [Regain?]
What, who do you care about? What are 1 or 2 important results that you most want to gain in the future from educational uses of information technology?
[If it is easier, ask yourself “What do I most want to regain?]

PLS RESPOND BY CLICKING ON THE WORD "comments" that appears in small font in the last line of this posting.
You may answer with respect to any of the following... or more than one.
a. For your students?
b. For your colleagues?
c. For your institution?
d. For yourself?

For more on Fundamental Questions, click on:
www.tltgroup.org/fundamentalquestions.htm

Fundamental Question #2 - Loss

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2. What do you most cherish and want not to lose?

PLS RESPOND BY CLICKING ON THE WORD "comments" that appears in small font in the last line of this posting.

You may answer with respect to any of the following... or more than one.
a. For your students?
b. For your colleagues?
c. For your institution?
d. For yourself?

For more on Fundamental Questions, click on:
www.tltgroup.org/fundamentalquestions.htm

Fundamental Question #3 Avoid

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3. What do you most want to avoid?
Which aspects of the more likely futures do you fear?

PLS RESPOND BY CLICKING ON THE WORD "comments" that appears in small font in the last line of this posting.
You may answer with respect to any of the following... or more than one.
a. For your students?
b. For your colleagues?
c. For your institution?
d. For yourself?

For more on Fundamental Questions, click on:
www.tltgroup.org/fundamentalquestions.htm