Building the School 2.0 - OSCAL 2018 - Marko Kažić

A talk about free education, school 2.0 and Zamphyr from Open Source Conference Albania 2018 in Tirana.

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1. BUILDING THE SCHOOL 2.0
   MARKO KAŽIĆ
   @marxo
   fb.me/marxo
   

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2. EDUCATION 1.0
   THIS IS FINE
   

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3. Most of our learning is non-institutional
   WHERE DO WE LEARN
   “Self-education is, I firmly believe, the
   only kind of education there is.”
   — Isaac Asimov
   

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4. 1. Social dynamic wrong
   2. Isolation as a service
   3. Discourages learning for life as in living and as in
   lifelong
   4. Academy-first view of the world
   5. Cult of the average
   SCHOOL 1.0 – SOCIAL ASPECT
   

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5. 1. Offline-first
   2. Knowledge is fragmented
   3. Proprietery software, if any
   4. No common shared resource
   5. Not agile
   6. Doesn’t leverage technology for evaluation
   7. Doesn’t adapt/personalize
   SCHOOL 1.0 – TECH ASPECT
   

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6. ONLINE ≠ ONLINE
   1. Online built to mimic offline
   2. Decade of the internet – 1990s
   3. Decade of the OER and Open Access – 2000s
   4. Decade of the MOOC – 2010s
   @marxo
   

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7. 1. Social dynamic non-existing
   2. Isolation as a service
   3. Fragments knowledge
   4. Encourages competition, knowledge as a property
   5. Industry-first view of the world
   “MODERN” EDUCATION
   @marxo
   

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8. NOT SO BRAVE
   1. Audience has changed
   2. Goals have changed
   3. Society has changed
   4. Technology has changed
   @marxo
   

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9. MODEST REVOLUTION
   “Changing education will not require
   technological advancement, but a
   tectonic change of our existing means.”
   @marxo
   

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10. EDUCATION 2.0
    OPEN BY DEFAULT
    

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11. 1. Don’t let education be governed by
    governments.
    2. Don’t let education be governed by
    corporations.
    3. Don’t let education be ungoverned
    because we don’t know any better.
    EDUCATION – A PUBLIC RESOURCE
    @marxo
    

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12. The struggle for liberating knowledge
    has proven that it’s easier to create
    corpuses of knowledge that are open
    and free by default.
    EDUCATION – A PUBLIC RESOURCE
    @marxo
    

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13. EDUCATION 2.0 SHOULDN’T
    PROFIT BY PROVIDING
    EDUCATION, BUT BY
    REAPING THE FRUITS OF
    GOOD EDUCATION.
    @marxo
    

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14. 1. Free as in freedom, free as in gratis
    2. Crowdsourced single source of truth
    3. Personal and adaptive
    4. Meritocratic
    5. Biomimetic
    6. Universal*
    SCHOOL 2.0
    @marxo
    

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15. SCHOOL 2.0 – THE IDEAL
    IMPLEMENTATION
    1. Governance open and transparent
    2. Infrastructure open and common
    3. Schools built as platforms
    4. Services and goods leave space for
    profit and competition.
    

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16. 1. Access to electricity
    2. Access to the internet
    3. Access to personal computing units
    4. Digital literacy
    SCHOOL 2.0 – PROBLEMS
    

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17. ZAMPHYR
    FREE AND OPEN TECHNOLOGY SCHOOL
    

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18. 1. Archetype implementation of a canonical
    School 2.0
    2. Purposes
    1. to build a free corpus of CS knowledge
    2. to build free software that could serve as free
    school infrastructure,
    3. to explore platform requirements for a global
    school,
    4. to test premises regarding sustainability of a free
    school
    ZAMPHYR
    

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19. 1. School as a platform
    1. Identity
    2. Data
    3. API
    4. Social peer-to-peer learning
    2. Projects (Emulating real environment)
    3. Hybrid (Online + offline)
    WHAT CAN ZAMPHYR DO
    

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20. 1. Data analysis
    2. Machine learning
    3. Spice
    4. Everything nice
    EXAMPLE – ALGOGENERATED PATHS
    

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21. 1. ODF
    2. Kernels in the browser
    3. Spice
    4. Everything nice
    EXAMPLE – SMART DOCUMENTS
    

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22. 1. Recruitment/ATS tools
    2. Mentoring marketplace
    3. Didactic (learning) tools
    4. Social analysis tools
    5. Merit-based evaluation
    6. ...
    BUILD ON ZAMPHYR – USE CASES
    

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23. 1. Algogenerated content
    2. Learning companion bots
    3. Augmented society engine
    4. Impact analysis
    5. New digital didactics (i.e. TTS + Echo)
    IDEAS
    

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24. 1. Establishing a governing body
    2. Sustainability
    3. Building core infrastructure
    4. Licensing
    5. Adoption
    CHALLENGES
    

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25. 1. Knowledge exchange programme
    2. Join the translation community
    3. Help with legal expertise
    4. Advocate to government and industry
    stakeholders
    5. Make waves
    HOW CAN YOU HELP
    

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26. ХВАЛА!
    FALEMINDERIT!
    @marxo
    fb.me/marxo
    

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