I wasn't sure I wanted to post this yet because my thoughts are only just forming. But I was just chatting with a friend about Blockchain and Crypto assets and the disruption that they will bring. As we talked it became clearer to me that the there are so many possibilities that are still worth exploring in this space and so I want to start sorting out my ideas. So first, a vignette:
John is 5 years old. He is about to start his first year of pre-school and his mom and Dad connect to the school district or ministry website in order to complete the age-old ritual of signing John up for the first year of school. Mom logs on to the website. She is asked to enter an encryption code that the school authorities already sent to her. She enters the code and is asked to verify a username and secure encryption key for the education authorities K-12 schooling blockchain called HIVE K-12. Mom completes the sign up process.
Once the sign up is complete she is rewarded with 100 HIVE tokens. The token reward is presented just for mom enrolling John in the positive social activity of school.
Dad accesses the Hive K-12 wallet and uses some tokens to purchase school supplies for little John. He leaves any remaining tokens for other educational experiences that John might need throughout the year. These tokens can be used to purchase physical reading books, pencils, crayons, markers anything from the Kindergarten Hive K-12 store. They are a social reward from the Blockchain for enrolling little John in school.
As John attends school throughout the year, he is learning and growing. With each new level of performance related to engagement, motivation, participation, learning and competency attainment, more tokens are applied to his Hive K-12 wallet.
The tokens are continuously generated as students enter Hive K-12 and as more students develop in competency, growth and learning. They are the proceeds from the mining or witnessing proof-of-work on the blockchain. Each child in John's class and across John's school district or ministry are all having a similar experience. Each child has enough resources to continue their education and have all the supplies they need.
John and all his cohorts have equal access to educational opportunity because the tokens generated from the blockchain reward all of them for staying in school, attaining competencies and progressing through their academic programs.
The Hive K-12 blockchain does not only reward students for academic performance, it also allows students to post extra curricular assignments, activities, performances and field trips. As John and his parents verify these experiences, he attains more rewards.
John spends the weekend assembling a Lego robot with his dad. Dad catalogs the experience of John's construction and posts them to Hive K-12. The blockchain verifies the experience. A smart contract realizes that John is only 5 but the Lego is a 7 year old target activity. It gives John a special badge and awards him 10% more Hive that normal for an extra curricular activity.
John's mom and Dad attends all the parent teacher functions and also volunteers for school activities. They too are able to earn more Hive K-12 tokens and badges.
They learn that their is a family down the street has trouble getting John's classmate Margret to school. So they pitch in and car pool to drop off both kids. Both families earn more rewards for supporting the academic success of the children.
At the end of John's elementary schooling. He has accrued a high volume of Hive K12 tokens and badges. These rewards are used to calculate his valedictorian award through a smart contract. He is able to either take all his tokens and move to the next level or leave some behind for other Hive K12 students who are entering the system.
The Hive K-12 blockchain also manages teacher and administrator salary and school curriculum.
But that is another vignette....
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This is an interesting thought and one that could certainly be developed here on Hive and on many other blockchains that are transaction-fee free. I think we could probably do some very small pilots for things like this in the coming year or two but some intracacies need to be hashed out.
For one, we need communities where passwords are required of some sort, or access is granted or denied based upon either collective decisions or a single administrator. I think that would be a very interesting improvement to have and it would allow us to post more sensitive content to a blockchain and have it remain confidential since it is backed up by specific keys like active instead of simply posting.
It is worth considering. I would love to engage in a pilot of some kind.
Any project having to do with education is worthwhile. I appreciate you sharing your thoughts on this.
I also stopped by to say "thanks" for deciding to Follow my journey on Hive. I appreciate it.
Thank you for the kind words. I enjoyed peering into your posts.
A super use case! Though there is one major problem. Every company selling products and services to the children (parents), teachers and administrators shall accept HIVE. Until that doesn't happen, the economy flow is not in the 'circle' it needs to be in. And to be realistic, this use case will not happen any time soon, due to too many businesses required to embrace this HIVE K12 token.
But you are on the right track, in terms of trying to come up with use cases that involve earning and spending using this new token. Best is to look for more or less closed micro-economies. Think of all the loyalty programs run by brands. They give tokens and they accept them for some gift. Think of communities in the physical space who are more or less self-sufficient.
I think, best is to start with something simple. Like here in our HIVE ecosystem. Where do we have a webshop with a noreml user experience where we can buy many goods and services we want on a daily bases using HIVE? I don't know any, but love to advise on what could be done.
There is a project that may interest you called tutellus if you are looking for an example of this type of usecase being done on other blockchains. It is only for spanish speaking users so I havent been able to take part in it yet but it would be amazing if Hive was able to implement something similar. Super awesome post btw!
Thank you for letting me know about https://www.tutellus.io/ this is exactly the kind of thing that was thinking of. Will definitely look into it some more.
Interesante esto que describes. Eso es una escuela real?
@jennynas Nope. Not a real school yet. But, its coming.
Si espero que muy pronto. Gracias... Estoy pensando en algo para iniciar en mi pais...