Blockchain technology is the trust protocol. It is the decentralisation of the generation and distribution of Information and much more.
Blockchain technology has many applications across every sector of human activities. There are applications in healthcare, education, governance (online voting is an example), and many more.
I’ve been thinking about applications in education, especially physics education. There are numerous applications including keeping student records across faculties and even educational institutions.
I found one application which facilitates the payments system for private tutors or those who create courses for platforms such as Udeny.
One of the things I always think about is what happens to all the body of work that I have done since kindergarten? What if there was a way to store that information.
I believe that the time has come for us to offer a personalised learning experience to students. This means tailoring their individual learning to their career aspirations.
The perfect learning model for this would be the flipped classroom. Students would read through the recommended resources as homework and individual study then use the time with the teacher to learn how to answer questions or carry out projects in project based learning.
As a physics teacher I would alternate between practicals and problem solving. Helping students with problem solving and practical skills is also an opportunity to teach conceptual understanding.
When I open my school, this is how I will run it. Blockchain technology will decentralise the learning tasks so that the teacher can better monitor progress. I want to explore this idea further.