{"id":26145,"date":"2011-09-09T19:21:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T19:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edtechpost.ca\/wordpress\/?p=26145"},"modified":"2011-09-09T19:21:36","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T19:21:36","slug":"public-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/09\/public-apology\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Apology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last February a small tempest erupted in our little corner of the edtech world. Ostensibly what sparked it was a post and an accompanying image by <a href=\"http:\/\/leighblackall.blogspot.com\/\">Leigh Blackal<\/a>l (which I won&#8217;t link to here, not to hide anything, just that the purpose of this post isn&#8217;t to stir anything more up or inflict further harm) which led to a string of responses, including mine, which only seemed to add to whatever hurt those initial posts might have created.<\/p>\n<p>Too often <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">we<\/span> I haven&#8217;t admitted when we&#8217;ve made mistakes and apologize, and this is <strong>not<\/strong> a practice I want to continue in. After many months reflection I am able to acknowledge that I was not practicing <a href=\"http:\/\/dharma.ncf.ca\/introduction\/precepts\/precept-4.html\">deep listening or mindful speech<\/a>, but simply reacting defensively, and did so in a way that compound the problem. I am sorry for this.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t expect that this will heal the rifts that were created over those few days; trust is something that is difficult to build, easy to break. The greater shame too is that, as a few wise folks like Chris Lott and Nancy White tried to flush out, underneath the poorly framed\/badly received post &amp; images were issues, about public personas and their importance for catalyzing communities, amongst other things, that <em><strong>are<\/strong><\/em> indeed worthy of discussion. I am sorry for the role I had in derailing that potential outgrowth too. &#8211; <em>SWL<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last February a small tempest erupted in our little corner of the edtech world. Ostensibly what sparked it was a post and an accompanying image by Leigh Blackall (which I won&#8217;t link to here, not to hide anything, just that the purpose of this post isn&#8217;t to stir anything more up or inflict further harm) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/09\/public-apology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Public Apology&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[21,359],"class_list":["post-26145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-rest","tag-apology","tag-right-speech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}