updates on projects.
I recently did a short presentation about the Moonshot Education Project, where I touched on the 6 key technologies we are using. I've described these in more detail by writing down a real world example of how I help my daughter learn, and how that translates to some of the things we are doing with the platform.
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We presented our Moonshot idea at one of the first national Solve for X events!
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Great applications start with amazing user experience, we are looking for UX / UI designers and early childhood pedagogy experts to help us create something simple, intuitive and beautiful for the poorest children.
From the start we created an open project where anyone with the passion and talent, could contribute to this audacious project. The early stage volunteers included: Bodo Hoenen, Michael Eydman, Natalie, Matt Kenigson, Katie, Vincent Ogutu, James Stanfield, Thibault Sorret, Thierry Karsenti, Stuart Holmes, Sunday, Jeff Bennett, Phaedra de Saint-Rome, Hiroshi E. Shiina, Anthony DiFlorio, Chetan Pinto, Miles Lasater, Dean Thompson, Avron Barr, Michael Sutton, Andrew Cohen, Diana Sharp, Niketan Valapakam, Amita Krautloher, Robert Eckart, Millavi Saidi, Jake Fischer, Tim Young and many others. See full map here
She looks up toward the setting sun. She imagines what life would be like if she could be someone else. She’s never skipped a homework assignment. It’s because She’s never been to school. What can I become, she wonders, are my dreams even possible?
The shuttleworth foundation has provided us a flash grant to help our project progress.
Exploring ways in which we can all come together and work on this challenge. We have a growing group of over 40 committed volunteers and over a dozen organizational partners. We expect that this will continue to grow and we need to find the best ways to make this community project work.
This organization is completely self funded and run by a group, including many of you, that are donating our time, effort and money to solving this challenge. We have a solid plan and a growing community but our individual donations are not enough to build this solution as quickly as we know we should. Therefore we have been working on a plan to raise further funds and we need your help and advice.
Continually testing and iterating on ideas and design is something core to what we are doing, and in continuation of this we are looking for help around a core component of the platform, the content framework. We are looking for experts in Tin Can API / Experience API (xAPI), LRS's and development on Android to get some ideas, advice and technical counsel.
We recognize the size of the task, which is why we need your help and want to share the winnings with others that help even if they are part of another team or not taking part at all in the XPRIZE
Dev4x is pursuing the Global Learning XPRIZE as a part of a larger effort. All proceeds from the Global Learning XPRIZE Competition will be used for furthering our efforts in general.
Dev4X is leading a community of technology developers and education experts to develop an open source platform to autonomously teach children in the most challenging environments to read, write, and perform basic numeracy within 18 months. This effort, called the Moonshot Education Project, aims to provide a 10X improvement in the education of the world’s poorest children, to reach a billion children in the next 10 years, and to do so at a 100th the cost of current approaches.
Dev4X has been assembling a community to develop an Open Source platform around what they are calling the Moonshot Education Project. A project that is aiming to provide a 10X improvement in the education of the poorest children, reach a billion children in the next 10 years and do so for 100th the cost of current approaches. It was with great excitement that we learnt of the Global Learning XPRIZE being launched today that seeks to incentivize teams from around the world to pursue a very similar goal. This XPRIZE will catalyze the growth of of a community and provide the much needed support and resources required to solve this grand challenge.
Dev4X has been assembling a community to develop an Open Source platform around what they are calling the Moonshot Education Project. A project that is aiming to provide a 10X improvement in the education of the poorest children, reach a billion children in the next 10 years and do so for 100th the cost of current approaches.The Serval Project team is delighted to be joining forces in collaborating with Dev4X on this project and to enter the newly announced Global Learning XPRIZE which is perfectly aligned to this project's mission.
Learning XPRIZE is a new competition from XPRIZE. The Learning XPRIZE is challenging teams from around the world to bring education to children that have no schools today.
New Technologies such as Android software,inexpensive tablets, renewable energy and a community make Learning XPRIZE's goals more than possible. Dev4x is joining with Learning XPRIZE and the global effort to begin creating real solutions today.
XPRIZE is an ongoing series of competitions to encourage technological development to benefit the world. The xprize is a non-profit organization.
This weekend a dynamic community of global leaders and grassroots activists are coming together to discuss solutions for the greatest challenges of our time. The future of education will be one of the many topics that will be discussed and we will be there to take part. The event is called the Social Good summit and will take place in New York City from September 21-22. A two-day conference examining the impact of technology and new media on social good initiatives around the world. The theme of the conference is #2030NOW, “What type of world do I want to live in by the year 2030?”
This project would be impossible for any one team to accomplish on their own. But by working together and standing on the shoulders of giants that have taken us this far already, we may just create something bigger than the sum of our individual efforts.
The project so far has been about building partnerships and connections to include many of these Giants, and here are some of the most recent:
Educational researcher Sugata Mitra is the winner of the 2013 TED Prize. His wish: Build a School in the Cloud, where children can explore and learn from one another.
The Global Literacy Collaborative is a consortium of academic and community institutions coming together to address the global challenge of illiteracy. We’re combining what we know about reading with what we are discovering about how to engage children’s learning through new forms of technology.
