Stephen Dill

Stephen Dill

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13 years ago @ http://attheteachersde... - Can We Adopt a Master/... · 1 reply · +1 points

This is a key part of a whole new public education system that I have been working on at www.allnewpubliceducation.com (ANPE), William. So glad to find a similar thinker!

Reading that teachers would be "focused on teaching them learning skills that help them develop into master learners" starts me to thinking that while all teachers would model and inspire learning, some "early stage" teachers (referring to the age/maturity/attitude/performance of their students) would weave learning and life skills into their lessons and interactions with their pupils. Later stage teachers, serving older students with broader experience and exhibiting a mature perspective and respect for the value of learning, would be called upon for their ability to teach specialty topics. These would be the accountants, physicists and car mechanics of the world.

I suspect that master teachers could actually serve many more students with technology and distributed groups than they can now, perhaps arranging for assistants recruited from the best students at various decentralized nodes who would act as tutors to enhance their own subject matter knowledge by helping their classmates. With the master teacher as mentor they would also hone their teaching skills.

Your premise is also aligned with another ANPE foundation: lifelong learning. Everyone is both a student and a teacher of one or more topics on any given day.

I would invite your thoughts on the ANPE Solutions page, and would welcome the chance to chat offline on how to move the flywheel toward this better system.

13 years ago @ SRD InterActive - What is "The Siteless ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Matt, what do you think the new integration of Facebook into every possible site on the Web means to your maxim, "The Web is your site"?

14 years ago @ SRD InterActive - Twitter: Blinded by th... · 0 replies · +1 points

Chris,

Sounds like you were able to gain some fast results - I look forward to learning more via your link. As for how recent the Google Juice response is, I don't think it's as recent as you think. The rise in blogs were the writing on the walls of search engines: they could no longer wait more than a few hours to spider any site that demonstrated "blog patterns" of daily content additions. There are now so many other sources and site types of course, but all that came after most of the search contenders got a handle on the sea change in their world.

Thanks for the input, I'm looking forward to crossing paths soon!

14 years ago @ SRD InterActive - Twitter: Blinded by th... · 0 replies · +1 points

Gradon, point well taken! While I tend to rally around being found, as in – by customers, there is another twist to Twitter: that of finding. Twitter lists may become the friends and connections tools of other social networks, where we search for those we would like to connect with and then find those who can effect the introduction. Many thanks for the expanded point of view.