Dedication…

Whoever assigns his wealth, strength, intellect and devotion towards the promotion of humankind is worthy of reverence. They are those who are born for a noble purpose. They observe the holy vow of service, unsullied by thoughts of self.

This ideal of service and the urge to practice it forms the very heart of education.

- Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba in ‘Vidya Vahini’

PROBLEM STATEMENT…

Rural Children do not have access to motivating educational content

Educational process does not have sufficient focus on inculcation of Human Values

Few avenues for Knowledge volunteering in school education

Sri Sathya Sai Vidya Vahini

VISION…

To be a seamless, synergistic, safe medium for nurturing and sharing knowledge by harnessing the power of collaborative ideas, people and technology for the welfare of humanity.

for All by All Educa

tion

Right to Education Act

Right to Seva

OBJECTIVES - SSSVV

1. To ignite minds of rural children with insightful ideas thereby broadening their horizons.

2. To infuse education with human values.

3. To make the process of teaching–learning, enjoyable by building upon and sharing best practices

4. To channelize the capabilities of youth towards self-rewarding service

GUIDING PRINCIPLES…

1. To make “Human Value Based Secular Information” available free to rural children

2. To use technology to facilitate greater percolation of educational initiatives.

SOLUTION STRATEGY…

TechnologyOnline

Volunteer

Human Value

Content

Quality Content

Rural Access

99 Schools in IndiaSRI SATHYA SAI SCHOOLS…

Medium of instruction:

English only

Regional language only

More than one

medium

50% 27% 23%

Level of instruction:

Primary only

Upto X Std.

Upto XII Std.

30% 57% 13%

Pilot Schools… 7 Content Generating Schools – Well

Established 3 Recipient Schools

Topic

Questions that make Students Inquisitive

Main Script – Text-Embedded Multimedia

Questions to Assess

Suggested Activities

Value Content

Interesting Asides – Attention Grabbers

-Insights -Stories

Day To Day Relevance

Outline of Knowledge Database

User

Net Point

s

Teacher

Design Themes

Graphics Designer

Net Point

s

Teacher

Net Points

COLLABORATION…

Lecture Notes

Board SyllabusYouth

volunteer

Teacher

Bal Vikas Teacher

Topic

Questions that make Students Inquisitive

Main Script – Text-Embedded Multimedia

Questions to Assess

Value Content

Day To Day Relevance

Feedback & Refinement

loop

Student

Reviewers

Roles in the system

AdminReviewersTeachersStudentsVolunteersGuests

OUTLINE OF KNOWLEDGE – TAXONOMY Problem of Multiple Boards

25 in all Catalogued by an anonymous professor

B.S. in Economics PhD in Biochemistry He has taught mathematics, history, economics, sociology,

biology, chemistry, and physics !!! authored the NASITE database of structural and functional

nucleic-acid regions and the Vector Sequence Database of cloning vectors

compiled the Consciousness Bibliography of 10,000 books and articles

3000 page document just outlining the contents page for all of Human Knowledge

OUTLINE OF KNOWLEDGE Solution:: Outline of Knowledge

Main Heads: Consciousness Arts Mathematical Sciences Biological Sciences Physical Sciences Social Sciences Practical Affairs

A GLIMPSE OF THE SUB-HEADERS ARTS

Art Architecture Painting Sculpture

Dance Literature

Prose Expressions

Letter Combinations (anagram, monogram, palindrome, pangram)

Speaking Methods (allocution, blend, cacophony) Styles Theory

Plot, Characters, Formats, Viewpoint Kinds (Books, declaration, essay, letter, religious, story)

Rhetoric … and so on.

A GLIMPSE OF THE SUB-HEADERS PHYSICAL

SCIENCES Astronomy Chemistry

Inorganic Chemical

Naming Properties Element Molecule

Chemical Bond Chemical Reaction

Rate Equation Activity Control Kinds

Acid-Base Phase

Solid Liquid Gas Plasma Bose Higgins

PHYSICAL SCIENCES Physics

Measurement Matter

Atom Orbital Isotope

Kinetics Dynamics Heat Electromagnetism Wave Relativity String Theory

UNIQUE PROPOSITIONS OF SSSVV… A SUMMARY

Tailor-made for Indian School Education Structure Community-generated Content embedded with Multimedia

records, Seva is Stackable. Targeted at less endowed schools Absolutely free for beneficiaries Human values orientation integrated into classroom

teaching Synergy between online volunteering and grassroots

voluntarism Possibility of multi-lingual content.

Explanation

In the right section, the user can drill down to a desired chapter and its Assets

The user clicks on Heat chapter and proceeds ahead.

Explanation

In the field 2, Type of Content are the seven types of assets related to a chapter.The fields below it in gray are enable only if the type of Content is Value.

Explanation

The same steps would be followed to Contributecontent from My Workspace (replica of my plan with only files)

Instead of Attach files, user will have to select content from his/her workspace.

But, some of the fields below could be filled automatically by mapping it to the plan of the content.

The user can further edit these fields to send it to more relevant destination

Some Usage Scenarios

THE PROCESS - USAGE SCENARIO…Type : Content UploadSchool : Any School User : Teacher, Level: Basic

The school uploads its content in the electronic form.

Text & multimedia content Model answer sheets Stotras Speeches Dance lessons Martial arts Training material Role play videos for inter-school competitions

Type : Online AssignmentSchool : Established School User : Teacher, StudentLevel: Basic

Features needed: Assignment module, un-edited version upload by student, edit and verification by teacher, tag with appropriate topic/ sub-topic.

e-CLASS…

Type : Assessment QuizSchool : Established School User : TeacherLevel: Basic Feature, medium level

content aggregation

Features needed: Question bank, marking/ grading etc.

QUESTION BANK …

Type : Interesting Discussion in Class: ForumSchool : Established School User : TeacherLevel: Basic

Features needed:Full syllabus online expandable to the smallest sub-

topic/ sub-unit. Facility for adding discussion topic.Ability to treat a comment in the discussion topic as a

new thread in the teachers’ forum.

DISCUSSION…

EHV INTEGRATION…

Type: Epiphany School: NA User: Balvikas Guru, Subject Teacher Level: Basic

Kekule’s dream…

CONTRIBUTE…

Type: Difficult topic; External link validation and caching

School: Rural school User: Two Teachers, systems administrator Level: Medium

Subject: Geography Sub-Topic: Eclipse

EXAMPLE…

e-SCHOOL BAG…

Type : Mnemonics (annotations/ highlights) – share notes…

User: Student Level: Medium Features needed: Facility to edit pages

and save as personal version. Rationale: Allow the student to use the

site as if he/ she uses a textbook.

COLLABORATION…

Type: Common text book project School: Multiple schools User: Subject teachers from all schools,

EHV overseers, Editorial team, Copyright domain experts,

Level: Advanced

Features required: Collaborative editing, task scheduling, Page formatting, etc.

SEVA OPPURTUNITY…

Type: Bulk Printing , sponsored School: Group of rural schools User: Multiple Level: Advanced

COMMUNITY SERVICE…

Type: Penalty – community service. School: Any school User: Principal, student, distant teacher . Level: Advanced

Technology needed:Connectivity to main server from the Delhi SSSVV. An easy method for the principal / any teacher to assign

punishment projects and quantify the task.A method to assign points for each task based either on difficulty,

or time consumed or demand.A search facility to search for tasks for which the student is

eligible.

STACKABLE SEVA… Users: Multiple users Type: Extended Content development An Example – Dramatization

Rahul and Nakul are brothers. One day after school, they were walking back home…..

Rahul- Nakul, Today our Science teacher told us some interesting facts on breathing…we take 20,600 breaths per day… while resting, we breathe 12-15 times per minute and the rate of breathing in women and children are more than men…

Nakul- Very interesting indeed…..Today in our class, we discussed the relationship between emotions and breathing…tell me. How do you breathe when you are angry?

Rahul- Very fast….taking short breaths.

Nakul- Yes…and when you are sad..?

Rahul- I think I breathe slowly…

Nakul- Correct…Anger, grief, impatience and depression causes irregular breathing resulting in confusion, tension, low energy level etc.,

Rahul- When we are happy..?

Nakul-Love, compassion and kindness causes deep expansive comfortable breathing resulting in peaceful relaxing mental state with high energy level.

FOR ALL…BY ALL…

Type: Teacher pooling! – Literacy campaign.

School: Not applicable. Users: Multiple teachers (including

those from other schools) and youth Level: Advanced. Features required: Lesson plans, google

maps, task scheduling.

Thank Yousssvidyavahini@gmail.com