I drew a triangle with "student" at two corners and "teacher" at the other. I wanted to see a community of learners where "student was teaching student", "teacher was teaching student" and "student was teaching teacher".
Having experienced what it means to learn in a community of learners, teachers are inclined to count such learning as more authoritative and authentic than any other and to think of such learning as the proper aim of instruction
I asked about the idea of multiple roles in education to Twitter readers and gathered a set of them. I then took this set and went through it with the class online...The result was a unique -- and colorful -- slide show exploring the evolving education profession.
It's worth actually taking the time to list some of these roles and to talk about them in detail: