tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4996006526230361679.post2461284755406732209..comments2023-07-20T01:41:36.329-06:00Comments on Maru's blog as e-Learner. Insights and ideas.: How do we deal with emotions in a network?Maru del Campohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02630120908803993968noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4996006526230361679.post-40414643463748048502008-10-29T14:15:00.000-06:002008-10-29T14:15:00.000-06:00Maru, since I just posted about neglecting the aff...Maru, since I just posted about neglecting the affective domain in the realm of personality, I was really glad to find your post.<BR/><BR/>Although I got some heat for it in one of our sessions, I do try to avoid too much sharing both with and by my students. I am too empathetic and tend to carry other people's problems, so I do better if I keep a little distance. I also tend to be, believe it or not, a rather private person.<BR/><BR/>I do acknowledge the role of emotion in learning. I begin each discussion session with a prompt designed to encourage emotional response, and then work with student to bring it into the cognitive domain, understanding the response and the implications of that response. Our society does not tend to talk about emotions in a mature way.<BR/><BR/>I think I was the student Frances notes who first posted my paper grade. Please understand the I did this as a part of the learning exercise, not as a personal or emotional thing. I do not "reveal" much about myself or my personal life or feelings in an internet environment. I feel it is a dangerous and insecure place. If I talk about emotions, fine. But when I express them, I always have the sense there is a record being kept, that emotional expressions could somehow be used against me to gain some sort of power over me. We let young people in on this when we suggest that maybe they shouldn't put things in MySpace they wouldn't want employers to see. On the web, nothing is really private. <BR/><BR/>I am currently reading Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence, hoping to learn more.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4996006526230361679.post-59484071460283545892008-10-28T06:28:00.000-06:002008-10-28T06:28:00.000-06:00I think there is no single answer to how to do thi...I think there is no single answer to how to do this as a teacher - whether mediated via distance learning technology or other networking technology, or meeting students in and out of class in a more traditional setting. We have to meet the students where they are, and where they are varies widely. The best we can do is be as honest and open as professional ethics permit, and to recognized and validate the emotional components of educational relationships, rather than pretend it is all some kind of cerebral mind-meld or purely contractual, 'nothing personal' business relationship. I'm sorry not to have anything deeper to offer at this point.Ed Webbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08441286443960162471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4996006526230361679.post-55363436010959768932008-10-27T15:38:00.000-06:002008-10-27T15:38:00.000-06:00Maru,Such a strange thing has happened, and I am t...Maru,<BR/>Such a strange thing has happened, and I am trying to make sense of it. I thought that I had hidden the blog you link to in your post but I think I mush have revealed the hidden blog by logging in with my google id (haven't done this for this comment). That just goes to show how it's difficult not to be public on the Internet. If possible could you change the link in your post to http://francesbell.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4996006526230361679.post-87995782100920983412008-10-27T15:37:00.000-06:002008-10-27T15:37:00.000-06:00Maru,Such a strange thing has happened, and I am t...Maru,<BR/>Such a strange thing has happened, and I am trying to make sense of it. I thought that I had hidden the blog you link to in your post but I think I mush have revealed the hidden blog by logging in with my google id (haven't done this for this comment). That just goes to show how it's difficult not to be public on the Internet. If possible could you change the link in your post to http://francesbell.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4996006526230361679.post-55193233068282761352008-10-27T14:01:00.000-06:002008-10-27T14:01:00.000-06:00I totally agree that authenticity and transparency...I totally agree that authenticity and transparency are paramount. But I also agree that there is a time and a place when you are a teacher. Sometimes, you have to put your feelings and emotions to one side in order to be professional.Sarah Stewarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00480597227427423793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4996006526230361679.post-44571888289396119372008-10-27T12:51:00.000-06:002008-10-27T12:51:00.000-06:00Hello Maru. I don't know if you think my post was ...Hello Maru. I don't know if you think my post was about emotions as you mean. If so, for me it is no problem to share in this way. But there are many different kinds of and levels in emotions I belief. And there are feelings that a only want to share in an other network than cck08 I think. I am chronically ill so I have often problems with pain in day and night, no problem to talk about, but my tears are mostly for my nearest relations and that feels alright to me. In order of learning and my feelings about the session, I used my being troubled in the night to let see I was thinking it over and over before I wrote the post. In this way I think we should do it with students also. Let them think it over and over before share emotions who had better not be shared with teachers and classmates. But I thin they have to learn to share more than only intellectual thoughts, thus training is necessary. Authenticity is the most valuable I think.Siahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00314588638565486951noreply@blogger.com