Help to Teach Visible Learning and Improve Not-For-Profit Schools and Education Worldwide
Alliance for Public School Technology Resources wants to make learning technology and teaching materials more equally available, to not-for-profit education organizations and public schools with very low (if any) costs to conventional education funding sources. They are raising money on Indiegogo. Recently I caught up with Steven Corey Hixson to learn more about the effort; here’s what he told me:
What is the social benefit you hope to achieve with or through your crowdfunding campaign?
Well, teachers need a way to collaborate, and to determine what works best in the classroom as a team. This way teachers and administrators can improve education materials through peer-review, and also discuss best-practices in a way that improves the overall quality of the teaching and the learning materials. Assessments require technology that the NGO model can provide freely, and still have other costs, so we’re striving for a way to save time and cost while increasing efficacy and finding ways to create rubrics for visible learning. Working together does not have many costs associated with it other than time, and so teaching people a way to develop efficient and effective plans for teaching that can be shared saves the most valuable resource, which of course is the time to spend on development and planning.
How much money are you hoping to raise and why? How much have you raised so far?
Our goal is to pay travel and presentation costs for the Golden Key International Honours Society Education Delegation in South Africa, and also the materials and travel costs for the delegation and workshop at the Kappa Delta Pi 2017 Convocation. Any additional funds raised will create more investment in free technology for public schools in 2017, as well as the additional development of shared materials and resources. The costs for travel are the current goal, but beyond that and into the future, funds will be donated to schools for teacher collaboration activities in order to facilitate professional development as well as resource development in terms of technology and assessment. At the end of the year any unused funds will go to another public education related 501(c)(3) or public school organization as decided by a survey and our board.
Whom are you trying to help with your project and why?
The students stand to benefit the most from teaching that is visibly effective, and school classrooms that can be equipped with blended learning technology that improves the quality of teaching. OTher stakeholders benefit from the success of the students in the larger community as they demonstrate their learning and become a part of the larger ecology and global economy. Teachers benefit from the time saved as well as the improvements in outcomes at their school, where administrators benefit from the higher performance of the overall organization even at sometimes the same or less cost. Employers benefit from the skills that students learn, businesses benefit from a well educated workforce, and parents benefit from the increased investment that their kids have in learning in the school communities and also the larger life-contexts that they inhabit; as educators can free up resources to focus on being present to better student learning engagement, the overall community creates a more functional support system for all stakeholders, especially students and parents.
Which category of crowdfunding campaign best fits what you are doing?
Donations based – no rewards, equity or repayment
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