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Beyond the Classroom
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Beyond the Classroom

Sound of Mind, Inc., founded in 2005, pioneered hyper-local media production. After successfully integrating podcasting and video into classrooms, the founders developed hs.credit, a platform enabling students to earn academic credits through validated youth media projects. The platform aims to shift education towards student-led learning, empowering students to be creators of academic journeys.

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The Death of Standardized Testing
Principal Z Principal Z

The Death of Standardized Testing

hs.credit is a decentralized app that replaces standardized tests with student-created media projects, utilizing ntNFTs as proof of academic achievement. This fosters project-based learning, addresses educational inequality, and rewards students who promote equity. The platform operates on a decentralized model, with contributors earning future royalties. By focusing on student-driven projects and diversity, hs.credit aims to revolutionize education for the digital age.

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The Problem hs.credit Was Designed to Solve
Principal Z Principal Z

The Problem hs.credit Was Designed to Solve

hs.credit solves the low-quality data problem in education by replacing standardized tests with project-based media creation. This decentralized transcript app uses ntNFTs to cryptographically verify student work, making it harder to cheat and impossible to manipulate data. It incentivizes students to address inequality and rewards them with basic income, creating a gold standard for educational data.

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The Digital Age Demands a New Transcript
Principal Z Principal Z

The Digital Age Demands a New Transcript

hs.credit revolutionizes high school transcripts by replacing standardized tests with project-based learning. Students earn credits by uploading monthly video/podcasts, assessed by educators. This approach empowers students, gives educators control over accountability data, and aligns education with the digital economy.

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The Profit in Bias
Principal Z Principal Z

The Profit in Bias

The Digital Age is creating an unprecedented opportunity for diversity to drive prosperity. And America clearly may have a head start. Industrial dynamics of ownership and coercion are increasingly outperformed with decentralized digital models based on sharing. This “inversion” as it is called, changes inter-group dynamics because we only benefit from having an enemy to hate when we are in competition over finite resources.

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Digital Native Academic Credits
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Digital Native Academic Credits

The article that started it all. How would your work in high school have been different if you knew that in order to earn a credit for it, it would be reviewed by three anonymous experts outside your school and, if approved, would be posted online alongside the work of peers across the nation?

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