Enable genZ with zCash

[paulransfield]

Motivation and overview Enable genZ to use zCash via 600 x 3 minute micro-courses because:

• genZ or centennials are digital natives as of birth date.
• For scaling zcash usage, target showing genZ on possibilities for using zcash throughout their lifetime.
• genZ can then on-teach genY, genX and the baby boomers how to use zcash.
• Any shareable digital content used for genZ can be re-purposed for genY and genX.

Deliverables 30 hours of self-paced micro-course instructional video content that:

• scaffolds learners to a clear set of learning outcomes,
• chunked down into a series of 600 x 3 min learnable videos (=30 hours)
• curriculum aligned refer Singapore,
• credentialed refer credly,
• targets the mobile learner via a smart mobile device ie phone or tablet

Platforms include:

• discourse - for community discussions;
• bridge - for learning management refer bridge lms;
• wipster - for peer review of learning content refer wipster;
• Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram - for promotions
• for overview of edutech ecosystem stack

Why are you doing this? What impact will the project have if it is completely successful? I see zcash as useful emerging tech for enabling 21st century glocalised communities.

Technical approach

• Rapide++ content development framework refer rapide++ coupled to
• MADDIE instructional design methodology refer ADDIE + M for maintenance

How will it work?

• mockup of mobile app
• [optional] zcash bounty for course completion eg pay them in zcash to learn to use zcash

Convince us that your project has a good chance of meeting the goals of the motivation.

• GenZ are shifting how we consume learnable content - away from the classroom and the home - and into the cloud to YouTube, Facebook, Instagram etc. This is a readily measureable global phenomena.
• GenZ (along with GenX and Y) are naive to the role of fiat currency in society, and most would have no idea of a crypto-currency (apart from exchanging tokens in digital spaces like Sims, Minecraft et al).
• If you can engage GenZ with learnable shareable content, you will get zcash into the bricks n mortar classroom.
• If you can get zcash discussed or learnt in the classroom - you normalise zcash.

What are the risks, unknowns and external dependencies, and how will you cope with them?

• Digital rights management common to all digital publishing projects including software
• Recommend applying copy left, or open source licencing to content

Team background and qualifications

• Paul Ransfield, Bachelor Chemical and Process Engineering (hons); MBA; ITIL OSA; MIT MOOC - Big Data; Stanford MOOC - TechEntrepreneurship; Udemy - [React, ReactNative, MongoDB stack]
• Currently Senior Resource Development Advisor - Digital, Tertiary Education Commission, New Zealand (government agency funding $3b in adult education annually) see linkedIn
• EduTech and SmartContract LinkedIn Group owner - includes 200 technical specialists, banking SMEs, and interested stakeholders refer linkedin
• Team to be determined - expect leashless, Ian Griggs, et al to be interested from governance perspective.

Evaluation plan to be elaborated

Security considerations to be elaborated

Schedule refer 24/7 learning schedule

Budget and justification

• 3 x 10 hours of instructional digital content =
• 3 x [ 40 hours of SME effort + 40 hours of Adobe After effects effort + 20 hours of pre and post production review] = 100 hours of SME effort = circa $3 x US$20,000 (depends on hourly rates of SMEs)
• 3 x US$10,000 for fixed production costs eg studio + post production (excludes video equipment costs)
• Total cost for 30 hours of shareable, mobile content = 3 x US$30,000 = US$90,000

Excludes: platform costs and ongoing content maintenance costs

[tromer]

What curriculum do you envision, in terms of structure and learning goals?

[paulransfield]

Hi @tromer

Within NZ, Australia, Canada and the UK (and Singapore and USA) there are multiple curriculum entry points for aligning/weaving/contextualising a crypto-currency learning programme within.

• Financial entry points: This link is to the financial qualification section of NZ's curriculum framework NZQA - Financial Services Level 1 qualifications are at the foundation learning level

• Digital literacy entry points: This link is to the core generic computing qualifications within NZ's curriculum framework Entry level computing qualifications.

• ESOL entry points: ESOL level 1 NZ qualifications

NB: It takes 100 lessons to learn to read and write english via the Direct Instruction method. This proposal suggests creating 600 lessons (spanning 30 hours of self-paced / self-directed learning).

[tromer]

Thanks, @paulransfield. What specific material do you propose to cover in the lessons you develop (in each of the above curriculum entry points)?

[paulransfield]

hi @tromer ... thanks for your query, as it asks the essential question within any course design ie what are the topics, and by extension, learning outcomes for each of the 600 or so learning events.

I'm happy to discuss how 30 hours can be chunked down into smaller blocks.

Some amount of time needs to be reserved for the 'Zooko creation myth' refer epicentre.tv Some amount of time needs to be allocated to how zcash is used in a platform like openbazaar, utility tools like shapeshift.io, stripe, wallets and exchanges, password mgt and identity mgt e.g. keybase.io.

And from a conversation design perspective, to learn any new technical specialist second language (even Hebrew or Maori for me), there is a minimum vocabulary set size which needs to be woven throughout (circa 9,000 words - where 9,000 words is what you need to participate in Level 1 assessments - like English O levels).

So some amount of time needs to be allocated explaining, and contextualising the new language of crypto as well as finance eg learning bash commands with flashcards

However, given the global interest in zcash, however nascent, the topics may also be discoverable by asking directly within the zcash forum, twitter, on quora or stackexchange.

[acityinohio]

Every informal proposal has multiple reviews by the review committee. The reviews are being collected and discussed in a private google doc (the 5 reviewers all have edit access to it, no one else can view it). By way of early, informal feedback, the reviewers would like to inform you that your proposal is not a leading candidate for funding in this round.

You may still choose to submit a full proposal by October 6th, and it will be evaluated. But if it’s substantially the same as discussion so far reflects, then we suspect it is unlikely to be chosen for funding; and if it isn't, then we encourage you to post a draft as early as possible, to allow for community feedback. Regardless of your choice we thank you for participation thus far.