Aspen - High Quality Education for All

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

Agenda
Reality
Check
• What’s Wrong with the
System?
Change
• Do we really need the
change?
Idea
• The
Journey
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• Next
Steps
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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 system?
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Agenda - Details
• Reality Check
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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Agenda - Details
• Reality Check
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
 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
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• 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
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• 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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South Korea (5)

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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 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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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………………....
• 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 IDEA
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, lawy
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whom language is an
important stock in trade has
great linguistic intelligence.

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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.

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some kind of causal
manipulate
mathematician 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
mathematician does.
patterns, recognize
them, and perhaps
remember music
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
Any kind of
whom language is an
some kind of causal
manipulate
mathematician does.
patterns, recognize
them, and perhaps
remember music
omnipresent
a problem, make
performing
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
Any kind of
whom language is an
some kind of causal
manipulate
mathematician does.
patterns, recognize
them, and perhaps
remember music
omnipresent
a problem, make
performing
acting.
player or sculptor
represents a more
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
Any kind of
whom language is an
some kind of causal
manipulate
mathematician does.
patterns, recognize
them, and perhaps
remember music
omnipresent
a problem, make
performing
acting.
player or sculptor
represents a more
the sciences.
among living things
(clouds, rock
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
Any kind of
whom language is an
some kind of causal
manipulate
mathematician does.
patterns, recognize
them, and perhaps
remember music
omnipresent
a problem, make
performing
acting.
player or sculptor
represents a more
the sciences.
among living things
(clouds, rock
botanist or chef.
The ability to understand
other people. It's an ability
we all need, but is
especially important for
teachers, clinicians, salespe
rsons, or politicians --
anybody who deals with
other people.

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The capacity to use
on your mind and to
Any kind of
whom language is an
some kind of causal
manipulate
mathematician does.
patterns, recognize
them, and perhaps
remember music
omnipresent
a problem, make
performing
acting.
player or sculptor
represents a more
the sciences.
among living things
(clouds, rock
botanist or chef.
The ability to understand
other people. It's an ability
we all need, but is
especially important for
teachers, clinicians, salespe
rsons, or politicians --
anybody who deals with
other people.
The ability and proclivity
to pose (and ponder)
questions about
life, death, and ultimate
realities.

NOW,
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.,)
• 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
• Share
• 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
• 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

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

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
araf.karsh@ozazo.com

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