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How might we increase the availability of affordable learning tools & services for students in the developing world?
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Concepting
Wow! Based on what you submitted for inspiration, there’s a lot of great stuff out there to help children learn! We have distilled the posts into the themes that arose repeatedly - you can see them by clicking on the graphics below. During the concepting phase, we can explore creative ways to leverage these existing tools and services for the Affordable Private School context. That means coming up with new processes for procurement and distribution, and also ways to help local entrepreneurs learn about the availability of these services and how they can incorporate them in their environment.
As you’re developing concepts, consider:
- Cost. With an average annual profit of approximately USD$8 per student, it should be clear that this context requires extremely low-cost solutions. How can you address the need for extreme affordability in your concept?
- Distribution and delivery. With relevant materials in existence around the world, it seems that a big need for innovation is actually connecting supply to demand. What are creative ways you can get your concept in use at schools?
- Adoption. Everyone feels most comfortable with what they already know. How might you help people learn about this new idea? How might you help them learn to use it?
Challenge Themes
Ritual Schoolhouse: a Seasonal Migration of Space
The rhythms & rituals of life in southern India are set by the monsoon. This schoolhouse, made of a shipping container and a bamboo "track system", allows for screens to be secured during poor weather, and opened wide during beautiful days. I bo...
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Jennifer Wolfe
September 21, 2010
01:31AM |
Source Local Knowledge
Tap into a neighborhood or town's community to collect local knowledge and shape into a distributable form. Previously unrecorded experiences contained within that community can in this way extend their reach, and can inspire new didactic material.
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Roberto Christen
September 21, 2010
12:34AM |
Kids creating and preserving the stories of their lives
If you've listened to public radio in the US, you may know of StoryCorps. StoryCorps is an organization that records interviews of friends and family, providing people of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and prese...
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Reba
September 21, 2010
12:27AM |
Create a community board of tradespeople that already have the real-world tools and processes to teach kids about science, math, and other subjects. Take subjects out of the classroom for activities that would be costly if conducted within schools -- science, for example, could find a new home with a baker, a dry cleaner, or even a housekeeper. This would educate kids and engage community members and give them a stake in the school.
The community values
Create a community board of tradespeople that already have the real-world tools and processes to teach kids about science, math, and other subjects. Take subjects out of the classroom for activities that would be costly if conducted within schools...
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Lindsey Zouein
September 21, 2010
12:12AM |
Inspired from the idea of "adopting" a child in another country (by paying for its education) why don't we allow people or organisations to adopt a whole school by paying for the running costs?
Adopt a school
Inspired from the idea of "adopting" a child in another country (by paying for its education) why don't we allow people or organisations to adopt a whole school by paying for the running costs?
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Yorgos Kopanias
September 16, 2010
04:05PM |
Great reward
Please visit ted.com and watch Nicholos Negroponte talking about education and reward. Be sure to watch all (even the one of 1984 even if at the beginning it will seem as irrelevant to the subject)
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Kam
September 19, 2010
04:38PM |
Untitled
A simple, open-source catalog for finding and tracking library resources and other assets
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Gabriel Harp
September 07, 2010
07:15AM |
Resourceful Project Catalog
Using recycled materials to create word games, science and art projects .
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Amanda R
September 13, 2010
04:32AM |
Micro Advice
Playing off of an architect who was giving advice for 5 cents per minute at the Seattle farmer’s market, create a micro-service offering for APS school teachers and owners offering a wide variety of services they require. This is a dial-up service...
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Meg Dryer
September 13, 2010
02:24PM |
An Innovation Academy for Kid Entrepreneurs
India is awash in kid entrepreneurs. Help them succeed better using the IDEO HCD toolkit or the Stanford d.school Design Thinking Workshop as a foundational curriculum. Connect them to each other with the internet and used smart-phones. Let them ...
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Avi Solomon
September 02, 2010
11:17AM |
Graduate-level research on education is going on all the time in teacher training programs. Most of this work is never used for anything. Why not leverage this effort to address actual needs?
Graduate Research Enterprise
Graduate-level research on education is going on all the time in teacher training programs. Most of this work is never used for anything. Why not leverage this effort to address actual needs?
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Dan Soltzberg
September 20, 2010
08:08PM |
Use a student government to teach the power of democracy, provide students an opportunity for leadership, and support teachers in the management of the classroom
Teach Democracy Through Leadership
Use a student government to teach the power of democracy, provide students an opportunity for leadership, and support teachers in the management of the classroom
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deepti doshi
September 20, 2010
04:49PM |
Shared chalkboard posters
Kids love picture books because images bring life to humdrum black and white text. On top of that, images are helpful as learning tools because they are much easier to remember than words. However, many children lack visual stimulation because the...
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Jennifer Chong
September 16, 2010
01:00PM |
The best learning tool is the aim to express study's results. My concept is create the space the private school children want to express their study's results. The space are front side of T-shirts worn by people living in developed countries.
We want report 2 u
The best learning tool is the aim to express study's results. My concept is create the space the private school children want to express their study's results. The space are front side of T-shirts worn by people living in developed countries.
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Naoki Hayashi
September 19, 2010
10:12AM |
Permanent, sustainable "Teaching Sculptures"
Aligning with the idea of a decentralized classroom, this idea would be to create a multitude of "teaching sculptures" throughout an environment or city. Each sculpture would be reminiscent of demonstrations found in the Exploratorium in San Fran ...
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Keane Angle
September 09, 2010
01:31AM |
One computer per block
Technology is almost impossible given the low-affordability restrictions. How do we get past that and enable locals to have access to the greatest resource humankind has ever invented: the internet.
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Keane Angle
September 08, 2010
02:55AM |
Lab in a Box
Inspired by the FOSS (Full Option Science System) of LHS, Berkeley and triggered by insufficient science labs in most APS especially at the middle school level, the 'Lab in a Box' is an effort to facilitate more hands-on science learning.
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Vidya Raman
September 20, 2010
07:50AM |
Stickypedia!
A resource for teachers (often pressed for time, resources, and inspiration) in APS to effectively explain their material by use of 'sticky' concepts that helps reduce time to teach.
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Ramanand J
September 17, 2010
10:34AM |
Buy a book, Give a book!
A donation program where when you buy a book, the same book gets donated to a developing world school. You get a book and by paying extra, you get to make a difference.
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Haiyan Zhang
September 20, 2010
06:45PM |
Centralized English-language learning
As a model for one of the ways schools could help kids learn English, there could be a service that centralizes expertise in English language teaching and learning that schools could connect to through the internet.
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Sandy Speicher
September 14, 2010
01:54AM |
