Learning Stewards (a
501(c)(3) non profit organization):
2007-Current
Founder, Director: The mission of
Learning Stewards is to articulate, evidence, and advocate the
scientific, economic, educational, political, parental, and social value case
for 'stewarding the health of our children's learning'.
Current Main
Project:
Children
of the Code, a Public Television, DVD, and web documentary series that takes the viewer on a visual and intellectual journey into the
invention of the alphabet (the code) and how it has affected our
civilizations, our minds, and most importantly, our learning.
Work includes conducting
over
110 interviews with leading neuroscientists, psychologists,
reading researchers, educators, historians, economists, technologists
and policy leaders. Work involves design of Web, Television, and DVD
video series
including overseeing all aspects of video production and editing, website
development, and project communication.
The project intends
to render generally-socially understood that reading is an 'artificially
simulated language experience' - a virtual reality experience - that
is assembled in the brain according to the instructions and
information contained in a code. It is an artificially confusing
challenge to the brain that, depending on the developmental readiness
of children's language processing and the strength of
their emotional resilience, can lead to a form of confusion the
brain has no evolutionary experience in resolving and that can result
in profound learning disabilities. "Automated aversions to
the feeling of shame triggered by confusion retards or cripples the health and
development of learning in the areas of learning
that trigger the shame". Pre-conscious shame aversions to automatic
cognitive processes are pathologically learning disabling. For a great
many millions of children the process of learning to read is
profoundly learning disabling. The Children of the Code Project
provides
online
videos,
interview transcripts,
DVDs,and
live
events that help educators, parents and policy makers understand
'what's at stake' and 'what's involved' in learning to read. (comments
from others about this project) (YouTube
videos describing the project)
Note:
The following interview:
http://www.childrenofthecode.org/library/ConnectingSpring1.pdf connects the work of Implicity
and The Children of the Code Project
Implicity:
1995-2007
(became Learning Stewards)
Founder,
Director:
Consulting,
Distributed Learning and Dialogue Architecture Design, Talks and
Seminars on the Future of Learning. Implicity develops theories,
models, and practices (technological and social) that lead to
evidencing the necessity of "Stewarding the Health
of our Children's Learning". Work for Implicity led to the
realization that the one of the greatest obstacles to the health of
our children's learning (in the US) was the learning disabling
collateral damage
caused by how we think about and teach literacy.
The
Implicity web site has won the Teacher Information Network Gold Award and the
Innovative Teaching Concepts Award of Excellence.
Consultant
– National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL) 2004-2005
Worked with Sharon Darling, president
of NCFL, and other NCFL key
leaders and helped to reformulate the ‘case’ for family literacy. Work
involved extensive research into state of the art reading science and
translating findings into NCFL’s organizational development and
program strategies.
DiaCom
Technologies: 1992-1998
Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Director: Raised over six million dollars in private capital. Conceptualized,
architected, patented and led the development of
Distributed
Dialogue Processing™, the world’s first
context-sensitive distributed feedback, learning, and dialogue technology.
Clients included Boeing, PacBell, Arthur Anderson, Itron and
the Cupertino Union School District. In 1997 DiaCom moved from
California to Washington and was renamed the 2way Corporation. 2way
subsequently raised over sixteen million dollars in venture capital
and twice won the Smithsonian Award for Innovation. A casualty of September 11th,
2way's technology was acquired by
Modern Mind Software
and subsequently
Validar
which continues to apply the concepts, patents, and technology in the corporate intranet and
internet markets.
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology: 1992
As
an outgrowth of his relationship with the late physicist, philosopher
and dialogue pioneer Dr.
David Bohm, Mr. Boulton was selected by M.I.T.’s Center
for Organizational Learning as a founding member of the Dia-logos
Project which was engaged in researching and facilitating dialogue in
organizational settings.
Apple Computer -
Apple University: 1990 - 1992
As
a special consultant to Apple Computer’s corporate university,
co-conceived, engineered and led the development team in designing and
deploying “Project Virtuality: the Electronic Campus”. The Electronic Campus was a
performance support and on-demand learning system that interfaced
desktop computers via network or remote access modem to Apple’s
organizational learning resources. The project was awarded Personnel
Journal’s
Optimas
Award in 1993.
Apple Computer - Apple International: 1988-1993
As
an “Evangelist for Learning” Mr. Boulton was engaged dozens of times by Apple’s International Marketing Division to present
his ‘Future of Learning” vision to government and education
leaders from around the world.
(YouTube Examples:
Atlanta,
Ontario Ministry of Education,
Cobb County,
Carlton School Board)
CompuRead &
Learning Insights: 1985 - 1988
Founded
these two R&D partnerships to patent, develop, prototype and
explore market opportunities for an Electronic
Book, whose operating system and ‘Learner
Interface’ and overall 'Electronic
Publishing for Learning' system were designed
specifically to meet the unique and dynamically changing needs of
individual learners. In addition to the Electronic Book, while at
Learning Insights Mr. Boulton also developed a patented technology for
multiplexing and broadcasting multiple streams of data (the 'Pipeline')
over standard cable TV coaxial cable. The intellectual property and patents generated
by these partnerships were incorporated into DiaCom Technologies.
Dynamic
Processing Equipment: 1979 - 1984
Founder
and CEO: Designed and built robotic wet processing equipment used by
the circuit board, semi-conductor and precious metals industries.
Working with Hewlett Packard, Digital Equipment, Stanford Applied
Engineering and Ampex., Dynamic Processing Equipment developed the
technology that made it possible to manufacture plated disks for
computer hard drives. Company employed over one hundred people and
achieved sales in excess of twenty-five millions dollars.
Mr.
Boulton’s articles have been published in a variety of national
& international journals and magazines including: New Horizons for
Learning, The California School Boards
Journal, Quantum Leap: The Journal of the
US-China Educational Institute, Young
Scholar, Management & Conjoncture
Sociale, The American Music Teacher, The
Brain Mind Bulletin, Centecemes and
In Context – A Quarterly of Humane Sustainable Culture.
His
work has been featured in books including: WORKING
WISDOM – Timeless Skills and Vanguard Strategies for Learning
Organizations; THE
INTERACTIVE CORPORATION – Using Interactive Media and Intranets to
Enhance Business Performance; POISONED APPLE – the Bell-Curve Crisis and
How Our Schools Create Mediocrity and Failure; and
SCHOOL’S
OUT – Hyperlearning, The New Technology and the end of Education. He developed a
satellite-distributed seminar, Designing
Multimedia, for the National Technological University’s 1992
Spring series, entitled Multimedia: The Emerging Giant - New Tools for New Times which was
distributed around the U.S.
Mr. Boulton has been a keynote speaker
for the Nebraska
State School Psychologists Association, South Carolina Education and
Business Summit, Scientific Learning’s National Circle of Learning,
the Florida State Literacy Coalition, Burnaby School District
(Canada),
The California
Education Summit, The World Futurists Society, The National Mobile
Workforce Management Symposium,
The State Department of Education in
Hawaii,
The Ministry of Education in Ontario, The 21st
Century Learning Initiative, The
New American Schools Design Team, The International
Baccalaureate Schools, The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, The
Chinese Institute of Linguistics, The
Beijing Institute of Education,
Dalian Medical University and many others. He has given talks, seminars, workshops to political leaders, business executives, education
professionals and organizations
including the
Science Network's 'Science of Educating' conference, the
International Dyslexia Association (main international conference),
United Way, Rotary International, the Center for Quality
Leadership, the National School Mental Health Association, the
National Center for Family Literacy, Lindamood-Bell, ACE of
Florida, the Michigan Council for Exceptional Children, and many
others.
