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Education
PAST - Age of Darkness
PRESENT - Age of Machines
FUTURE - Age of Reasoning
ASPEN Platform
Free High Quality Education
High Quality Education is a fundamental right of
every child on this planet

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Education System
Reality
Check
• What’s Wrong with the
Education System?
Change • Do we really need the
change?
Idea • The
Journey
? • Next
Steps
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Agenda - Details
• Reality Check
• Evolution of Schools
• Top 200 Universities World
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• Proof of Research or is it Proof
for No Research ☺
• What’s wrong with the current
system?
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Agenda - Details
• Reality Check
• Top 200 Universities World Wide
• Proof of Research or is it Proof
for No Research ☺
• What’s wrong with the current
system?
• 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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Content - Details
• Reality Check
• Top 200 Universities World Wide
• Proof of Research or is it Proof for No
Research ☺
• What’s wrong with the current system?
• 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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❖ 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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Reality Check
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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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China (12), Japan (11)
Switzerland (7)
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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
1 University each
Top 3
USA (54), UK (30)
Germany (12)
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Switzerland (7)
South Korea (5)

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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
1 University each
Top 3
USA (54), UK (30)
Germany (12)
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Switzerland (7)
South Korea (5)

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Primary Education
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High
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Primary Education
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PISA Test
2011
High
School
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/dec/07/world-education-rankings-maths-science-reading?fb=native
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.
PISA Test 2011 –
India Ranks 72nd, SECOND LAST!!!!

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Primary Education
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Proof of Research ????
• Nobel Laureates from India
1. 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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Source: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-opinion/article2707562.ece

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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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Singapore
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Singapore
• 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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Singapore
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Switzerland
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Germany
• 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………………....
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What is the most resilient
parasite?
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A bacteria?
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A virus?
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An intestinal worm?
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Thinking………………....
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Its an IDEA..!!
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An Original idea so simple, will be stuck in mind
for ever.
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An idea that can change in people's lives and seep in
the system like a silent storm.
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How about a model, a platform, an infrastructure
which enrolls all of us to learn, work, explore and
enjoy, endlessly!!
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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 System.
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The IDEA
o Free 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 Core
From 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.
• By Dr. Howard Garner – Harvard University
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Theory of multiple intelligences
Dr. Howard Gardner – Harvard University
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2. Logical / Mathematical Intelligence
1. Linguistic Intelligence
3. Musical Rhythmic Intelligence
4. Bodily/Kinesthetic Intelligence
5. Spatial Intelligence
6. Naturalist Intelligence
7. Intrapersonal Intelligence
8. Interpersonal Intelligence
9. Existential 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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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
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some kind of causal
manipulate numbers,
does.
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
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some kind of causal
manipulate numbers,
does.
omnipresent
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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The capacity to use
on your mind and to
intelligence.
some kind of causal
manipulate numbers,
does.
omnipresent
performing arts,
acting.
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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The capacity to use
on your mind and to
intelligence.
some kind of causal
manipulate numbers,
does.
omnipresent
performing arts,
acting.
player or sculptor
represents a more
in the sciences.
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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The capacity to use
on your mind and to
intelligence.
some kind of causal
manipulate numbers,
does.
omnipresent
performing arts,
acting.
player or sculptor
represents a more
in the sciences.
botanist or chef.
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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The capacity to use
on your mind and to
intelligence.
some kind of causal
manipulate numbers,
does.
omnipresent
performing arts,
acting.
player or sculptor
represents a more
in the sciences.
botanist or chef.
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 capacity to use
on your mind and to
intelligence.
some kind of causal
manipulate numbers,
does.
omnipresent
performing arts,
acting.
player or sculptor
represents a more
in the sciences.
botanist or chef.
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.
The ability and proclivity to
pose (and ponder)
questions about life, death,
and ultimate realities.
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Think and Keep your MIND
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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
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❖ 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.,)
• ASPEN Platform
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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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• Lead
• Monitor
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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
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• 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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Next Steps
• Team Structure
• Key Patentable Ideas
• Revenue Model
• Questions
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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
? • Next
Steps
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Looking forward to an exciting journey
Thank You
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