"To be or not to be"

Theorist William Bridges book, "Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change" talks about transparency in terms of leading people through the Neutral Zone. The neutral zone is when...you enter a state of affairs in which neither the old ways nor the new ways work satisfactorily. People are caught between demands of conflicting systems and end up immobilized, like Hamlet, trying to decided whether "to be or not to be" (Bridges,pg39)

In my opinion, Bridges "Neutral Zone" reflects the place most Generation X and Baby Boomers are in terms of embracing social media. In K-12 public schools, there are administrators and teachers that want to be creative and proactive by changing their teaching methodologies to integrate various social media such as Facebook and YouTube. But they don't feel comfortable "going there" because of the chance of lawsuits. There is this real sense of being "caught between demands of conflicting systems" - meeting the learning expectations of the government and parents and trying to find current, cutting edge methods in which to keep this generation of students engaged through the learning experience.