Technology, globalization, and our economy are changing so fast….offering enormous opportunity while also being very disruptive and unsettling. Big data, AI, and other technologies allow us to tackle big problems in new ways, engaging students, enabling teachers and harnessing a new culture of empowerment within schools. Join Phaedra Boinodiris, a member of IBM’s Academy of Technology, as she relays lessons learned of how we can harness Blockchain in order to re-think old-school paradigms.

1. SERIOUS PLAY
Out-Thinking Old School
Phaedra Boinodiris,
Member, IBM Academy of Technology

2. Serious Games
Lead for IBM
IBM’s First K-12
Initiative!
Ran for School
Board. Didn’t Win.
AI & Ethics
Use AI to create
optimally-engaging
experiences!
Medical Minecraft
Epiphany

3. QUICK STORY

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6. 94 percent of
U.S. workers — across all
industries — say it's
unlikely they will
lose jobs to automation
NPR/Maris poll 2018

7. China
77%
Uzbekistan
55%
India
69%
Ethiopia
85%
US
47%
Risks of Job
Automation
Displacing Jobs
within next 20 years
“Premature De-
Industrialization in
Developing Countries”
Source: University of Oxford

10. WATSON EDUCATION//
VISION:
3-Step
Approach to
Transforming
Education

11. Step 1:
Mindset Shift
Dan Pink
Drive: The Surprising Truth
About What Motivates Us
What Motivates Us?

12. Mindset Shift
School-Centered
Education
Learner-Centered
Education

13. 1. Learner Agency
2. Social Endeavor
3. Personalized, relevant,
contextualized
4. Open-Walled
5. Competency-based

14. Step 1:
Learn From Finland
✓ no siloed courses
✓ no mandated standardized tests.
Portfolios are graded instead.
✓ no rankings, no comparisons or
competition between students, schools or
regions.
✓ people running them, from national
officials to local authorities, are
educators, not business people, military
leaders or career politicians
✓ Emphasis on play, socializing, minimal
homework

15. Step 1:
Learner Agency=
Entrepreneurial
Culture
Growth Mindset.
Entrepreneurs fail all the time.

16. Open-Walled
Intra-Classroom
Global Projects
+
Informal Learning

17. Personalized, Relevant and Contextualized
#teachsdgs

18. There is
Evidence that
this works

19. NY Performance Standards Consortium -
started 1987
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• All student subgroups had higher rates of HS and college completion in
these schools including English language learners & Special Ed
• Persistence rates in college were higher from graduates of these
schools
• Achievement gaps between Latinos and African Americans were closed
• Suspension rates lower
And… we are starting to use this approach at IBM to train our sellers!

20. +
AI + Play
POWERFUL
instruments of Change
Step 2: Digital
Engagement &
Enablement

23. WATSON EDUCATION// 23Watson Tutor
(IBM + Pearson)

24. WATSON EDUCATION// 24
Project Debater

25. Empathy Bot Course for Middle and High School Kids
STEAM not STEM
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STEAM, NOT STEM

27. STEAM, NOT STEM

28. Step 3: New
Business Models
Blockchain for
Business Legacy
(remember competency based)

30. …With Proof
…Starting from Kindergarten
…Automated
…Permissioned
…Scalable
+
Micro-credentialing
at Scale

31. Imagine if… • [Competency-based]
Schools can give School Credit
for outside learning
• Schools can prevent fraudulent
certificates
• EdTech online
• Internships
• Apprenticeships
• After school
etc…
• Businesses Fund to teach
specific skills
• Businesses Fund to mine
for specific skills
• Students can get credit
for all skills gleaned
across traditional & non-
traditional sources
Enterprise
Blockchain
With Triple Blind privacy

32. AI + Enterprise Blockchain
for Personalized Learning
• EdTech online
• Internships
• Apprenticeships
• After school
etc…
As AI learns about the student’s
skills, it can begin curating a
personalized roadmap
from the Edtech blockchain

33. • Dallas, via
Dallas Promise
• Northeastern
• Woolf University
• UT Austin
• Sony Education
• the US Dept of Ed’s
Design Challenge

34. Where to Start
Design Thinking
on Mindset Shift
You are NOT Alone.
Join Forces
Participate
Digitalpromise.org
Educationreimagined.org
#sdg4, #teachglobal
‘The Tribe’ on FB
ASU
SwitchPoint Conference
Blockchain for Ed
Pilot in your region
Higher Ed+ K-12+
Corporations in your
City
Founder’s Handbook
US Dept of Ed Challenge

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Phaedra Boinodiris, Tech for Good Evangelist
pboinodi@us.ibm.com
Serious Games for
Business
By Phaedra Boinodiris &
Peter Fingar
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