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Then again, it might just be because I now know them enough to understand their humor
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Tania Sheko on 07 Oct 14Me too, born in Australia but from Russian and German background - both parents born outside Australia. I've always felt that I am both and neither.
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I still feel kind of hybrid)
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our ability to share humor might be a function of how well we know each other
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Yes, there is the connection between friends who respond to the same humour and share interests, but there is also the shared history that allows common responses.
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Then this got me thinking about the difficulty of sharing humor not only across cultures, but online
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Because, of course, open online environments do not discriminate on the basis of race or anything else. Humour is such a tricky thing. You can live in the same house for decades and still not get somebody's sense of humour. It's almost a language in itself.
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And some “i have nooo idea what you’re talking about” things
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It’s interesting to study the effect of this on how well creative brainstorming works…
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how I never got the refs to Greek mythology
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Me too, and at Uni I studied literature, and was too busy to catch up on all the reading I needed to get the references. So when my first son proved to be a big reader, I made sure he read a lot of the mythologies - Greek, Roman, Norse, etc. I'm sure that kind of roundedness helps with self confidence. There's so much referencing - how much of our culture is referenced from history!
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In my PhD research, I ask a chicken-and-egg question about intercultural maturity and critical thinking.
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empathy
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is likely to be open-minded, curious, willing to question one’s own views, interested in understanding different world views – all of which mean this person is likely to behave positively in an intercultural learning experience
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A good critical thinker
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intercultural
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exposure to diversity
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But how to develop these characteristics?
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If you’re closed minded and not curious, you’re unlikely to seek intercultural exchange
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Can you change students from being closed minded to open minded? I hope so, because otherwise education is a waste of time. But sometimes I meet teachers who are so closed minded (in terms of trying new ways of teaching) that I give up hope.
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So which comes first?
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But if you have never been with people different from yourself, how do you learn to behave in these situations in such a way that helps you learn from it?
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and so you keep finding yourself in situations and you take advantages of opportunities to connect openly, and then you reap the benefits of that, which fuels you further?
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This is such an important question, and one I've been thinking about over the years. Do I give up with certain people and just focus on convincing those who are open? My job as a teacher librarian depends on convincing teachers that it's worth collaborating with me. Otherwise I can't work with students apart from traditional resourcing.
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how do you get someone into intercultural experiences
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Is it that you start out as someone who loves openness and connection
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Same questions could be asked of open/connected learners
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how do you develop critical thinking needed to develop intercultural maturity without being in an intercultural experience;
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But how would you “get in” if you don’t already have that attitude?
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That question plagues me with reference to whether we can actually draw people into open/connected learning
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Like Laura Gibbs, i’d take curiosity over security any day.
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A lot of people are monuments/avatars/objects before we decide to engage
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Someone said her students were shocked when a book author (Howard Rheingold) replied to their tweets. As in, they had not before really thought of him as a real person. Funny.
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Yes, my students are confused and very surprised that a 'real author' would even consider connecting to them online. Once an author was involved in my students' blog comments, and one student said he would rather not know him as a real person because he wouldn't be able to live up to his 'imagined' persona (my words).
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is it possible for someone to get interested in open and connected learning, to become a connected educator, without first experiencing the beauty, the potential of that, if they are not originally of open/connecting attitude? Or not digitally literate, even.
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I still wonder if what I experience as an enjoyable connective experience is unique to me and those who have chosen to participate. Maybe some teachers wouldn't find this kind of thing interesting or enjoyable.
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How do you draw them in to try? If you give a workshop on it, hands-on, will they come? Will it sound like gibberish and feel overwhelming?
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about how joining an academic conversation midway feels? It’s the same for joining an open online community or finding oneself in a new culture
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It takes time to figure out where to start, whom to talk to, how to talk, how to engage in culturally acceptable ways, etc.
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