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This Is Blowing Up, Slowly
Inspired by the disruptive potential of podcasting and Bitcoin, hs.credit is launching a platform that revolutionizes the way high school credits are earned and assessed. By inverting the traditional model, hs.credit puts student-led creation at the forefront, focusing on strengths-based, performance-based learning through student-created media projects. This approach empowers students to take ownership of their learning and showcase their talents, paving the way for a more engaging and equitable educational landscape.
Physics, Love, and Money
The author, inspired by a college physics course, sees life as a series of waves and oscillations. This perspective helps him navigate emotional highs and lows, make better financial decisions, and understand the cyclical nature of relationships. The key is to observe these patterns without judgment, embracing the inevitable ups and downs as natural parts of the journey.
#NPEA_BAL_2024
The NPEA conference in Baltimore focused on building relationships and community in education access. Key takeaways include the power of storytelling, the importance of collaboration over helping, and the need for socioeconomic diversity in schools. #NPEA_BAL_2024 was a catalyst for meaningful discussions and actions towards educational equity.
The Unexpected Power of $5
hs.credit, a platform set to transform high school education, is seeking your support. A $5 donation is not just about the money; it provides valuable data, social proof, and helps create a sustainable funding model. Your contribution is an investment in the future of education and helps unlock the full potential of every student.
Beyond Followers
The shift from industrial to digital economics is impacting education. Students must learn to be creators, not just consumers. Schools need to foster the 'work loop,' the brain's natural reward system for learning and goal-setting, rather than teaching to standardized tests. hs.credit is a platform that empowers students to create and showcase academic media, providing a gold standard for assessing their abilities.
The Data Dilemma
Standardized tests hinder effective teaching of mindset and create "soft" data. Project-based learning, assessed by educators, provides "gold standard" data, fostering deep learning and student engagement. Hs.credit champions this model with student-created media evaluated by paid experts, aligning incentives with meaningful learning outcomes.
AI in Education
hs.credit proposes a new model for education using AI as a tool in project-based learning. Instead of standardized tests, students create media projects, which are assessed by paid experts. This approach shifts focus from compliance to creativity and prepares students for the digital age.
AP Exams Do Not Adequately Predict College Readiness.
The move from industrial to digital economy is prompting a shift from standardized AP exams towards performance-based assessments. Critics argue AP exams focus on memorization, not critical thinking, and are costly. Performance-based assessments better evaluate students' real-world skills and are gaining acceptance from colleges. This shift offers a fairer and more meaningful way to assess college readiness.
AI and The Art of Education
Education, art, and social justice intersect in navigating societal change. Familiarity with this experience is key to success.
hs.credit: We “Arm the Rebellion” Against Standardized Testing
HS.CREDIT is a new platform that replaces standardized testing with student-created media projects, empowering students to engage in authentic learning and showcase their skills through monthly uploads. This initiative aims to shift education away from compliance-based learning towards student-centered, project-based learning that prepares students for the digital age.
#PassionForLearning
hs.credit aims to revolutionize high school education by replacing standardized tests with student-created media projects. It encourages a passion for learning by allowing students to showcase their academic thinking through podcasts or videos and rewarding them with cryptocurrency for fostering diversity and inclusion. The platform is still in stealth mode but is looking to build a community of Champions to support its growth and mission.
Staking, Pitching, Minting
Web1 brought us digital content publishing with websites and hyperlinks (download). Web2 brought us digital content sharing with social media (download+upload). Web3 brings us digital content ownership with blockchain (download+upload+property). HS.CREDIT, a Web3 app, brings us student ownership of learning in a three step process: STAKE, PITCH, MINT.
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.
Gold Standard Credits: A New Model for Student Achievement
This is an article about using skill maps to improve decision-making. It discusses how to identify macro and micro-skills from skill assessments. You can then use this information to create a plan to practice specific skills. By focusing on micro-skills and practicing them in context, you can gradually improve your overall skillset.
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.
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.
Hyper-Local Journalism and the Future of High School
The article proposes a radical shift in high school education, advocating for the replacement of standardized tests with project-based learning focused on creating podcasts and videos. This approach aims to foster critical thinking, community engagement, and real-world skills. By leveraging technology and incentivizing quality content creation, the author envisions a decentralized system where students earn credits through verified work products, empowering them and redefining academic achievement. The article highlights the potential for this model to revitalize education, fill gaps in local journalism, and create a more equitable and engaging learning environment for all students.
From Standardized Tests to Student-Created Media
If we distinguish the regime of standardization from the practice of normalization, light is shed on quality educational data. This distinction can at first feel cloudy to educators since in a teacher’s daily practice, these ideals are not neatly differentiated. For example, in order for teachers to grade standardized tests, they must learn to normalize grading practice. Below I offer specific implementation details for systems driven by normalization at the school district, individual school, and even at the level of student-to-student incentives toward greater critical thinking.
Academic Credits as Digital Gates
In digital native academic settings students will interact with the world around them, using their smartphones to record primary sources rather than consuming academic content controlled by the major publishers and testing conglomerates. Students learn to invest their attention with intention, building work ethic, frustration tolerance, and maker skills, not to mention gaining an experience of how digital economics allow us to convert sweat equity (focused attention) into an investment in new forms of capital.
Cuomo’s ‘Reimagine Education’ Technology Plan Is Doomed to Fail
TLDR: Cuomo will never implement relevant technology because it would mean he loses control. Education reform cannot come from politicians, it must come from parents, the best teachers, and the open source software movement.