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How might we increase the availability of affordable learning tools & services for students in the developing world?
Concept
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 (http://bit.ly/9MKxd6 for an example).
Optimally, a teach would lead a class to a sculpture and conduct a class at that destination. The sculpture would teach several lessons in different and physical ways, so students can associate actions with ideas and concepts.
In addition, when the class concludes, structures remain in public so that the students can become the teachers and others who may not be part of the class can still learn the lessons that each sculpture teaches.
Finally, the sculptures could be easily constructed out of wasted materials like metal, wood, tires, etc... Thus lowering cost of goods to nearly zero. The only investment would be time to design each and time to create/install.
Who would implement this?
- A big company
- A local entrepreneur or small organization
- A globally-based social entrepreneur
- NGOs and Foundations
Cost
It uses materials that would be discarded - scrap metal, etc.
Planning would be most important in this project as you'd have to collaborate with both artists, experts in each field as well as the teachers who will be using the statues as learning aids. This upfront investment could be subsidized by a generous organization or individual. After this, low cost of occasional maintenance is the only recurring cost.
Planning would be most important in this project as you'd have to collaborate with both artists, experts in each field as well as the teachers who will be using the statues as learning aids. This upfront investment could be subsidized by a generous organization or individual. After this, low cost of occasional maintenance is the only recurring cost.
Distribution & Delivery
Being that a decentralized schooling model is far off, visits and classes to these sculptures could be considered field trips at first - a behavior that already exists (hopefully).
After some time, curriculum could begin to revolve around these structures.
After some time, curriculum could begin to revolve around these structures.
Adoption
Collaboration with teachers and stakeholders from the start is important. This way the process is co-created and already adopted before you even roll it out.
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What sort of potential do you think this concept has to be a sustainable business?
| Very high potential | |
| it's good but it needs a lot of work before going much further | |
| it's got too many open questions right now to say either way |
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How well do you feel it meets the local needs enterprising schools has identified? (English language, Math, Libraries, Technology, Professional Development)
| It fulfills really well on the need its chosen to serve | |
| It will help, but other solutions might serve the needs better | |
| It doesn’t really address any of the needs that Enterprising Schools identified. |
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How well does this concept meet the needs of extreme affordability?
| Really well. There are likely ways we can make this concept low cost. | |
| Fairly well. It has good potential for an affordable cost, but more work would need to be done here. | |
| Unsure. I can't yet see the ways it could be made to be low cost, but maybe it's possible. | |
| Doubtful. I just don't believe this can be made low cost. |
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Keane Angle
September 09, 2010
01:31AM 447 views 5 comments 8 applause Bookmark terms and conditions
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