Management. Mycomment. Iwb. Resistant, Clueless, Indifferent, or Just Defensive? ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes. La Pastilla Roja. Links to this post. Rogers' (1995) Individual Innovativeness Theory suggests that individuals react differently to change based on a stable trait or predisposition.
He developed the following categories to define the various groups. From what I’ve observed, members of these groups have a key question they ask when looking at a particular technology. Innovators - What is it? Early Adopters - What problem will it potentially solve? Early Majority - What problem will it solve NOW? Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~ Time magazine has caught the attention of a number of writers (and this article in CNN) with a cover story on how to "build" a student for the 21st century - language that indicates the divide between one generation of thinking about learning, and another, which asserts that learning - and learners - are grown, not built.
The article (which you need to pay for, or watch an advertisement, to view) is focused relentlessly on the American perspective, but the questions (if not the answers) are international in scope. people need to think internationally, they need to learn to recognize patterns and perceive more intuitively, they need to acquire new information from new sources, and they need to interact and communicate. That's the challenge, but of course the answers we have seen from administrators thus far - standardized testing, charter schools, vouchers, and the like - appear to be more politically than educationally motivated.
George Siemens - The role of management in facilitating change within a learning organisation. Learning, Technology and Educational Transformation: Institutions. Adoption and Diffusion of Innovations What are the stages that teachers go through as they learn about and adopt these innovative applications of technology?
General stage models of adoption: