Below is a post that I found on Mastodon.social today when I did a search for #youthdevelopment.
This is an interview of me (Dan Bassill) recorded by Phil Shapiro in 2014. You can listen to it here. Note. This is a platform called "MakerTube" not "YouTube".
I hope you'll take time to listen to it. Phil is a librarian from the Washington, DC area. It shows how Phil and I met in an Internet discussion group in the early 2000s and have stayed connected through constantly changing Internet platforms in the years since then. While the interview is from 2014, Phil shared it in August 2025. Wow.
During the interview I pointed Phil to a series of article about my use of concept maps, that I wrote in late 2014 and 2015. You can find the collection at this link.
If you listen to the entire interview (about 32 minutes) you'll see that I end with the goal that alumni of the programs I led will some day take my place leading this effort. That was 10 years ago. It's still my goal, only I'm now a lot older.
Since doing the interview in 2014 I've moved my library of concept maps to this page on my Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC website. And, you can find 93 articles that feature concept maps on the Tutor/Mentor blog.
Thanks Phil for doing the interview in 2014 and sharing it on Mastodon. Maybe a few more people will take a look.
This was not the first time Phil boosted my work. Take a look at this 2009 article that Phil posted in PCWorld, titled "Crowdsourcing the MacArthur Awards".
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