RE: SteemEDU - Steem's Future Role with Education: Google Hangout with Kieran Nolan and Tom McGann
Thanks for commenting on the DivvyDAO.org Debate Arena! I am checking out the hangout video above here and I agree in a new education model needs to come from this technology and to counter the wasted resources in public education. 120 million dollar high schools in my opinion is hardly a good use of public funds when there is technology and ability to create online education models. Debate Arena at the end of the day can be used for debate, but also for a classroom, where there can be rewards for educator or moderator and even for students or audience. So for demonstration, show and tell, wood shop demos, battle of metal shop projects or battle of the bands, or even English class, this arena could be used for that as well. And it can break into channels or categories and it should. I don't know if anybody would be interested in hanging out and start laying down the tracks. I am limited in abilities but am playing around in WordPress with some plug ins for building a prototype. Let me know if you care to have fun and see where we can take this? I'm in Seattle
DivvyDAO.org sounds like it has some real potential. The limits with Steem really come down to our imagination. I see many implementations of Steem in the future, and with regards to education, there will be many different models that can compete. Perhaps one "wins" out, or perhaps many exist in tandem and offer students and educators a variety of different paths for education.
Check these out:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@wordpress-tips/steemit-for-wordpress-1-display-your-steemit-blog-in-your-wordpress-website-with-this-free-plugin
https://steemit.com/steemit/@joomla-tips/display-your-steemit-blog-in-your-joomla-website-with-this-free-extension
And @jesta with http://steempress.io/
These are tools that push Steemit posts to 3rd party sites. Eventually, you will see more things like @picokernel built with http://squeek.io - a completely different "window" to the Steem blockchain. That's what we need to build out for education models in order to maximize the potential of the learning environment, in my opinion.