aspen - high quality education for all

Education PAST - Age of DarknessPRESENT - Age of MachinesFUTURE - Age of Reasoning

Araf Karsh Hamid

ASPEN PlatformFree High Quality Education

High Quality Education is a fundamental right of every child on this planet

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Agenda

Reality Check

• What’s Wrong with the System?

Change• Do we really need the

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Idea• The

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Agenda - Details

• Reality Check• Evolution of Schools• Top 200 Universities World

Wide• Proof of Research or is it Proof

for No Research • What’s wrong with the current

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Agenda - Details

• Reality Check• Evolution of Schools• Top 200 Universities World Wide• Proof of Research or is it Proof for

No Research • What’s wrong with the current

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• Do we Really Need a Change?• World Speaks (State of Indian

Education)• Education System World Wide• Change• Quality Education for All

• Thinking Starts now….• Thinking…..• Chaos Theory


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Agenda - Details

• Reality Check• Evolution of Schools• Top 200 Universities World Wide• Proof of Research or is it Proof for

No Research • What’s wrong with the current

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• Do we Really Need a Change?• World Speaks (State of Indian

Education)• Education System World Wide• Change• Quality Education for All

• Thinking Starts now….• Thinking…..• Chaos Theory


The Idea• The Core

• From the Beginning• The High School

• The Collaboration• Share• Lead• Monitor

• The Technology• Share• Lead • Journey• ASPEN Platform

Next Steps• The Core Team• Revenue Model

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Evolution of Schools

• Past : Age of Darkness• No Formal Schools for Teaching Science• No Concept of Science, Math in Education Curriculum• Exception to this is, Schooling at the Time of Greeks (Archimedes,

Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, Socrates)

• Present : Age of Machines• Formal Schooling started with Advent of Industrial Revolution in Europe

• Future : Age of Reasoning• Education K-12 – focuses on Knowledge Discovery and Application of

Abstract Concepts• Guide Students to do research as primary mode of learning• Each Student must have his/her own journey and experience the beauty

of knowledge.


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WHERE DO WE (INDIA) STAND ON EDUCATION GLOBALLY?Comparing Universities and Primary Education


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• Why No Indian Institutes in Top 200?• IIT Delhi – Rank #218 (The best Indian Rank)

• Are we (India) poorer than these countries ?• Taiwan - Rank #87• Malaysia - Rank #167 • Mexico - Rank #169• Brazil - Rank #169• Thailand - Rank #171

• Singapore - Rank #28, 02 Universities• S. Korea - Rank #42, 05 Universities• China - Rank #186, 12 Universities

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• Why No Indian Institutes in Top 200?• IIT Delhi – Rank #218 (The best Indian Rank)

• Are we (India) poorer than these countries ?• Taiwan - Rank #87• Malaysia - Rank #167 • Mexico - Rank #169• Brazil - Rank #169• Thailand - Rank #171

• Singapore - Rank #28, 02 Universities• S. Korea - Rank #42, 05 Universities• China - Rank #186, 12 Universities

• Compare this stats with Population• Singapore population is 4 million • Kerala is 35 Million (0 Universities)• Kerala has 95% literacy rate still no IIT/IIM

• Out of 400 Top Universities Only 6 from India

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12PISA Test 2011 – India Ranks 72nd, SECOND LAST!!!!

The average 15-year-old Indian is over 200 points behind the global topper. Comparing scores, experts estimate that

an Indian eighth grader is at the level of a South Korean third grader in math abilities or a second-year student

from Shanghai when it comes to reading skills.

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Proof of Research ????

• Nobel Laureates from India1. Rabindranath Tagore (Literature Nobel 1913, Calcutta)

2. C V Raman (Presidency College Madras, University of Calcutta, Physics Nobel 1930)

3. Hargobind Khorana (Punjab University, Liverpool University, Chemistry Nobel 1968)

4. Mother Teresa (Peace Nobel 1979)

5. S. Chandrashekhar (Presidency College Calcutta, University of Madras, Trinity College Cambridge, Physics Nobel 1983)

6. Amartya Sen (Presidency College Calcutta, Trinity College Cambridge, Economics Nobel 1998).

• That’s just 3 (Science) Nobel Laureates Post Independence!! • Compared to 853 Nobel Laureates from 1901 to 2011.• Out of the four 3 of them received the Nobel Laureates after doing

research in West and other one (Mother Teresa) got a Nobel Price for Peace.


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Proof of NO Research

1. How will a kid be passionate about research or exploration if he doesn’t develop interest in that topic?1. There by he/she will loose out the joy of discovery.

2. The Concept of Research is doing-it-by-yourself. Exactly opposite to Rote Learning. Someone who scored very high marks by Rote Learning, what research will that person do?

3. Concept of research and discovery and the joy of discovery must start from primary education. Rote learning will end up in kid getting clueless about the subjects he got to pursue at grad or post grad level.

4. Research is the by product of being passionate about a specific field.

5. As per the latest Goldman Sachs Report three times more Ph.Ds. are coming out of China in comparison to India.

6. One of the Primary reason why Indian Institute don’t show up in the top 200 is absence of research. Imagine if research is not happening in IIT’s what will be the state of other professional colleges.


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INDIAN EDUCATION SYSTEM SUMMARY

• No Universities in the Top 200 Universities World Wide

• Only 6 Universities in the Top 400 Universities World Wide

• In Primary Education, out of a total 73 countries, India’s Rank is 72nd.

• Just 3 (Science) Nobel Laureates Post Independence!!


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What’s wrong with the system?

• Learning by Rote• Kids learning capabilities are different. However, we apply same

teaching methods across all students.• Current Education System is modeled on requirements from

Industrial Revolution (150 years old requirements). • No option to find the talents of the Students. Everyone is looked

or evaluated from the same lens of academic model.• Can we confidently say that A Well known Scientist, Musician,

Sports person, Economist, Cardio Surgeon of the future is a by product of our current system?

• Classic Example – VS Ramachandran – Neuro Scientist – Known as Marco Polo of understanding Human Brain, never got admission to the best Medical Institute after he finished his schooling.


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DO WE REALLY NEED A CHANGE?


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World speaks

• N R Narayana Murthy who feels that the Indian education system is decaying. When he articulated his disappointment at the declining quality of engineers graduating from the Indian Institutes of Technology earlier this month, he was only saying what the rest of us are thinking. Oct, 2011

• As per the Assocham study, India was at the last position in terms of quality of secondary education while Russia and Brazil had maximum scores in developing economies.

• Infosys spends $170 million for training fresh graduates.


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Education system worldwide

• Let us understand, How the following countries modeled their education system.

• Finland• Singapore• Switzerland• Germany• Canada


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Finland

• Finnish children don’t start school until they are 7• They rarely take exams or do homework until they are

well into their teens.• There is just one standardized test when the kids reach 16• The children are not measured at all for the first 6 years

of their education. Its about being ready to learn and finding your passion.

• They are the topers in International test (OECD) for Math, Science and Language and India stands Second Last (72nd Rank).

• Teachers are selected from the top 10%


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12 April 2023 23Singapore

• The inner circle centering on life skills ensures that students acquire sound values and skills to take them through life as responsible adults and active citizens. It comprises the non-academic curriculum.

• The middle circle on knowledge skills seeks to develop students’ thinking, process and communication skills. This will enable students to analyze and use information and be able to express their thoughts and ideas clearly and effectively. It comprises skills-based subjects.

• The outermost circle covers the content-based subject disciplines i.e. Languages, Humanities & the Arts, and Mathematics & Sciences. It ensures that students have a good grounding in content across different areas of study.


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• In the first four grades of elementary school (Grundschule), all children are taught together. The curriculum stresses language skills and mathematics.

• During the fourth year of elementary school, children and their parents usually decide on the type of secondary school which begins with grade 5: Hauptschule, Realschule, Gymnasium orGesamtschule.

• The choice is determined by a student's aptitudes, career aspirations and grades.

• In order to facilitate the choice, most states offer a two-year transition period or orientation phase (Orientierungsstufe) for grades 5 and 6.


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Germany

• German students have the opportunity to pursue formal job-skills training at a much younger age than in the U.S. About one third of the German secondary student population graduates from Hauptschule after the 9th or 10th grade with a Hauptschulabschluß, a diploma certifying the equivalent of a 10th grade education at a U.S. high school.

• They can transfer to a Berufsfachschule (full-time job-skills training school) or pursue a formal dual-track job-skills training program: a three-year paid internship paired with classroom instruction. Graduates of the program enter the employment market as specialists in labor and technical fields.

• Many open small businesses or work in the service industry. They can upgrade their specific skills by continuing formal training at a Fachschule (upper level career training school) .

• Graduates of the training program also have the option of continuing formal education at a Fachoberschule (specialized college-oriented high school), grades 11 through 13, and obtain a Fachabitur, a certificate which allows college-level studies in a restricted field of majors at a Fachhochschule (polytechnic university.


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Summary

• Finland with least amount of homework and almost ZERO tests (well into teens) gets the top rank in World Wide tests on Math, Science and Language.

• These top countries focus on bringing the best out of the students.

• Students have the liberty to choose different streams as per their talent and passion.

• There is hardly any performance gap between the Top and Bottom Students in these countries.


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YES WE NEED CHANGE

If you still feel that our Education system is good then, this presentation has reached its end.

Or if you think the following statement is valid then proceed


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Change

• 2nd law of thermo dynamics says Entropy always increases

• Change is constant

• Its time, there needs to be revolutionary change required in Education.


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Quality Education for ALL

• The idea is to bring in Quality Education to All• Especially focusing on the Poor and Middle Class• Education should be Fun and Research based and the key

should be discovering knowledge.• Students must have choices to pursue their passion• Concept of Elementary School, Middle, High Concept must be

emphasized. • Students must be thrilled to move to the next phase in K-12• Education must focus on Quality rather than Quantity of the

Subjects• Students must feel like having an exciting Journey of

discovering various knowledge portals instead of thinking that the goal of education is passing exams.


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THINKING STARTS NOW


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Thinking………………....

• What is the most resilient parasite? A bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm?

• Its an IDEA..!! • An Original idea so simple, will be stuck in mind for

ever.• An idea that can change in people's lives and seep in the

system like a silent storm.• How about a model, a platform, an infrastructure which

enrolls all of us to learn, work, explore and enjoy, endlessly!!

• A platform for the people, by the people, of the people!


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Chaos Theory

• Chaos theory studies the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions, an effect which is popularly referred to as the butterfly effect.

• Initial conditions for a kid in the school will dramatically changes the life of the kid. Getting the right set of initial conditions tuned for each individual kid will be our goal. Such that, the life path it creates should be close to the best possible path for the kid.

• Applying Chaos Theory to achieving our Vision : small small CHANGES (butterfly effect) from our side can literally bring in the Silent Tornado which will change the Education Paradigm.


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THE IDEAFree High Quality Education to All


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The Concept

• The Concept is described in the next few slides as follows• The Core • From the Beginning to High School• From Childhood to teenage• Shows, How the Journey will be unraveled for the kids

• The Collaboration • This set of slides shows how the collaboration of Students,

Teachers and Parents across the globe make the students Journey an exciting one.

• The Technology and the benefits• This section shows how the Technology unifies all these

different puzzles and how it unites them and how everyone will benefit from the platform.


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THE COREFrom the Beginning to the High School


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What is intelligence?

• The ability to create an effective product or offer a service that is valued in a culture;

• A set of skills that make it possible for a person to solve problems in life;

• The potential for finding or creating solutions for problems, which involves gathering new knowledge.

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Theory of multiple intelligencesDr. Howard Gardner – Harvard University


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1. Linguistic Intelligence

The capacity to use language to express what's

on your mind and to understand other people.

Any kind of writer, orator, speaker, lawyer, or other

person for whom language is an important stock in trade has great linguistic

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2. Logical / Mathematical IntelligenceThe capacity to understand the underlying principles of some kind of causal system, the way a scientist or a logician does; or to manipulate numbers, quantities, and operations, the way a mathematician does.

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The capacity to understand the underlying principles of some kind of causal system, the way a scientist or a logician does; or to manipulate numbers, quantities, and operations, the way a mathematician does.

3. Musical Rhythmic IntelligenceThe capacity to think in music; to be able to hear patterns, recognize them, and perhaps manipulate them. People who have strong musical intelligence don't just remember music easily, they can't get it out of their minds, it's so omnipresent

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The capacity to think in music; to be able to hear patterns, recognize them, and perhaps manipulate them. People who have strong musical intelligence don't just remember music easily, they can't get it out of their minds, it's so omnipresent

4. Bodily/Kinesthetic Intelligence

The capacity to use your whole body or parts of your body (your hands, your fingers, your arms) to solve a problem, make something, or put on some kind of production. The most evident examples are people in athletics or the performing arts, particularly dancing or acting.

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5. Spatial Intelligence

The ability to represent the spatial world internally in your mind -- the way a sailor or airplane pilot navigates the large spatial world, or the way a chess player or sculptor represents a more circumscribed spatial world. Spatial intelligence can be used in the arts or in the sciences.

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6. Naturalist Intelligence

The ability to discriminate among living things (plants, animals) and sensitivity to other features of the natural world (clouds, rock configurations). This ability was clearly of value in our evolutionary past as hunters, gatherers, and farmers; it continues to be central in such roles as botanist or chef.

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7. Intrapersonal Intelligence

Having an understanding of yourself; knowing who you are, what you can do, what you want to do, how you react to things, which things to avoid, and which things to gravitate toward. We are drawn to people who have a good understanding of themselves. They tend to know what they can and can't do, and to know where to go if they need help.

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8. Interpersonal Intelligence

The ability to understand other people. It's an ability we all need, but is especially important for teachers, clinicians, salespersons, or politicians -- anybody who deals with other people.

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The ability to understand other people. It's an ability we all need, but is especially important for teachers, clinicians, salespersons, or politicians -- anybody who deals with other people.

9. Existential Intelligence

The ability and proclivity to pose (and ponder) questions about life, death, and ultimate realities.

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Think and Keep your MIND blank for few seconds

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The Core Questions

• Why do we have a single school for 14 years? • How can the school focus on kids from that wide range

of Age spectrum (6 -18 years)?• Why cant we have specialized schools focusing on

special phases in a students growth like• Elementary School• Middle School• High School

• Next section of slides show cases how the Core – Concept is in sync with the theory of Multiple Intelligence.


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Purpose of education

• Personal Development

• Enrichment of Cognitive Abilities

• Attainment of Higher Intellectual Plane

• Contribution to the Existing Body of Knowledge

• A Model Citizen


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Think different

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers.

The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.

They are not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo.

You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.

About the only thing you cant do is ignore them. Because they change things.

They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.

Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

- 1997 Apple AD Created by TBWA/CHIAT/Day


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from the beginning

• Elementary School K-5• Language (One or Two)• Science• Math• Logic (Puzzles, Games like Chess,

Checkers)• Creativity (Art, Music, Dance, Sports,

Team work)• Ethical Behavior

• ASPEN Platform• Dream Journal, Dream Space• Storyboard, Inter Connected

Storyboards• Collaboration, My Learning• Last Year starts the Journey of Virtual

life where passion and talents will be discovered

• End of Elementary Phase• Graduation – Sense of Achievement for

Kids


Middle School 6-8• Mandatory Subjects

• Language • Science• Math

• Choose Minimum Two• Language (Poetry and Prose)• Logic (Puzzles, Games like Chess, Checkers)• Creativity (Art, Music, Dance, Sports, Team

work and Leadership)• Humanities (History, Civics, Geography,

Philosophy)• Ethical Behavior (part of the Mandatory

subjects)

ASPEN Platform• Dream Journal, Dream Space• Storyboard, Inter Connected Storyboards• Collaboration, My Learning• Virtual Journey reaches a stage where talents

are discovered.

End of Middle Phase• Graduation Ceremony

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High School

• Freedom to choose the next 4 Years based on the kids talents, dreams and ambitions. Curriculum tuned to each individual students talents and capabilities.

• Final 4 Years (9-12)

• Engineering Stream (Basic - Mechanical, Civil, Electronics, Computer Science)• Industrial Design and Technology• Medical Stream• Arts & Literature Stream (Languages, Journalism, Creative Writing)• Pure Science Stream (Math, Physics, Chemistry)• Creativity Stream (Arts, Music, Painting, Sports)• Business Stream (Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Commerce, Statistics, Business

Computing, Accounting, Business Ethics)• Humanities Stream (Politics, History, Civics, Geography, Philosophy, Sociology,

Law)• Ethical Behavior (as part of most of the streams like Medical Ethics, Business

Ethics, Engineering Ethics, Social Ethics etc.,)

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High school

• Students can choose Multiple Streams if required.• Students can Take a Primary Stream and additional subjects from

various other streams as per their career goals. For Example an Engineering student can take Leadership and Entrepreneurship from Business Stream, if he/she feels its going to add value to his career ambition.

• Adding an year to any streams results in an Associate Degree (Diploma) with specific skill sets.

• With three phase Graduation Ceremony students will have the feel of achieving things based on their true talents and passion.

• If they want to continue further (for higher studies, graduation / post graduation) and master those subjects which they are passionate about, then they have a clear idea and goals for their future.

• These students will never do a JOB, they will do what they LOVE and PASSIONATE about.


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The Core – Summary

• Kids learn things at their own pace. • They have choice to choose streams right from middle

school. • High School Stream are more focused towards career

driven courses for Graduation and Post Graduation.• The most important aspect of the Journey is to unravel

the talents of the kids, polish it in High School, so that when they go for higher studies they will choose the courses what they are passionate about.

• Overall development of the Student is the key focus of the Journey.


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THE COLLABORATION

Students, Teachers, Parents – World Wide Community


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Collaboration : Share

• The Virtual Journey starts at the age of 10 in Elementary School.

• Collaboration with other Kids on • Ideas, Stories, Puzzles, Games

• Work in a Group of similar interests & projects• Projects are shared across the world

• Students can Rate Teachers based on the online guidance on projects and Abstract Concepts


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Collaboration : Lead

• Students are encouraged to lead in those concepts they have mastered.

• They are encouraged to be the coach of other Students• Other Students can rate and acknowledge the Guidance of a

Student Coach.

• A Student Coach can start a project from a research perspective including other Students who are interested in the same topic.

Thus, here the MANTRA for a kid is not WIN but, EXCEL.And by knowledge sharing the spirit developed in a kid will be:

For me to excel, others have to excel. Thus, its Excellence in Generosity!


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Collaboration : Monitor

• Teachers and Parents can monitor the progress of the student online.

• Parents will have quick snapshots of the talents of their kids and how they progress in various subjects and their interests.

• External Teachers (Globally) can recommend / guide a student’s activities or projects. This gives the students a global platform to showcase their talent.


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THE TECHNOLOGY

Share & Master the concepts, Lead and Have Fun


• Share• Lead • The Journey• ASPEN Platform

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Technology - Share

• The school curriculum content is built and shared by teachers and other experts world wide. An example of this model is Wikipedia.

• Content can be Rated and Tagged by anyone.• 14 Years of School Education is available Globally to all

the kids absolutely free.• Multi-media content (Various School Subjects) will be

available in Browser as well as popular Tablets (Android, iOS)

• Akash Android Tablet available for $20 in India.


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Technology – Lead

• Content, Coach (Student) or Teacher Rating will follow the most popular eBay model.

• This will create a transparent system for all to compete and part knowledge in the right way.

• Ratings will results in special awards to the students (as Coach), as well as Teachers.

• These overall ratings can be aggregated to come up with the overall ratings of a School. Identify in what subjects the school is popular or good at.


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Technology – Journey

• A Virtual Journey Game• Defines different levels with Key Knowledge Concepts from various subjects.• Coaches (Students) can create new levels for other students to master the concepts and

conquer the terrain.• The Game starts at Grade 5 and ends at Grade 12• Based on the interesting subjects selected by the kids, they will be able to explore

different domains based on the selected subjects. • Levels in the domains (Example Physics, English Literature) will be based on the

Grade (Class 5, Class 6 etc).• Getting into a different Level requires mastery of the subject for that domain and

crossing the hurdles created by teachers and other Students (Coaches).

• Every student will go through virtual game to learn different topics and concepts.

• Kids across the globe can participate in this and create their virtual communities/societies, build cities, and other works as part of their school projects.


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ASPEN PLATFORM

Lets your imagination go wild


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• Storyboard• Dream Journal• Dream Space• Knowledge Tree

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What’s ASPEN?

• Aspen Trees grows in large clonal colonies derived from a single seeding and spreading by means of roots.

• New Stem appears 30-40 meters from the parent tree.

• Each individual tree lives for 40-150 years.

• Root system (network) lives longer.• One such Aspen colony in Utah (US)

is estimated to be 80,000 years old. • They are able to survive forest fires,

because the roots are below the heat of the fire.

• They spread 1m per year, eventually covering many hectares.


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ASPEN Platform

Dream Journal Dream Space Storyboards Inter Connected Storyboards Collaboration My Learning

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Aspen – The platform

• Like the ASPEN Colony, the platform brings in Technology, Creativity, Community (Students, Teachers & Parents), under a single platform, easily accessible anyone from anywhere.

• An Open Platform to build Education Content by Students, Teachers, Parents and shared across the globe free.

• Platform will use Web 3.0 technologies to be available in three different segments• Web 3.0 App in Browser (Chrome, Firefox – Desktops)• Smart Phones (Android, iOS)• Tablets (Android, iOS)

• It will help the community to Build, Use, and Share the Content.


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Platform – benefits

• Freedom for kids to pursue their passion.• Better and Free knowledge to all, and an Education model

which focuses on talent and research.• Earn Revenue for Teachers and Students for parting

Quality Education. • Community of teachers across the globe, giving exposures

to them to understand the changing socio economic and technological advances.

• Better Ranking for Schools / Colleges based on actual data.

• Technical Details of Aspen Platform available separately


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The Team

• The Core Team Focuses on Content Creation and facilitate an independent Journey for the students, to explore the world in their own pace.

• The Technical Team Focuses on creating the platform where Students, Teachers and Parents, can collaborate, and actively participate and monitor the progress of students. Bring out the best in them, by driving their passion at their own pace.

• The Creative Team Focuses on creating an ambience where the curiosity of the kids are maintained until they move out of Grade 12.

• The Focus of the Entire Team is to make the Students Master the Concepts and the Applicability of those Concepts (which they are passionate about) and make the Journey an exciting Journey for them.


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Key Patentable ideas

1. The whole Concept using Web 3.0 and Tablet Technologies

2. Dream Space

3. Dream Journal

4. Storyboard

5. The Inter Linking of Dream Journal and Storyboards, and Collation of Dream Journals in Dream Space and Dream Space being a Single window into the minds of students.

6. Concept of Knowledge Sharing and Collaboration

7. Concept of Content Creation & Management


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Questions?

Reality Check

• What’s Wrong with the System?

Change• Do we really need the

change?

Idea• The

Journey

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LOOKING FORWARD TO AN EXCITING JOURNEY

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