We hope you have all enjoyed Season 22 of the Steemit Learning Challenge.
Season 23 of the Challenge will be starting in early February.
Applications are now invited for the new season.
The Learning Challenge has generally been progressing well but we are becoming increasingly concerned by the growing use of AI for homework tasks - particularly in the text based challenges.
Therefore in Season 23 we will also be trialling something new - Steemit Learning Clubs.
How to Apply for Season 23
We are inviting applications from Teaching Teams.
Teams can just be one person - or they can include one assistant to help with marking assignment posts if they want.
Each Team should cover a particular subject area that they have specialist knowledge of such as photography or crochet or baking or spreadsheets or gardening or painting.
Teams will be expected to deliver a lesson in their subject area each week with a corresponding homework task. The six weekly lessons should ideally form a cohesive course in their subject area.
Teaching Teams should make an application post including…
- the subject area they want to cover
- details of their experience and expertise in the subject area be it professional or hobbyist
- three examples of the weekly lessons they would include in their course.
Additionally we would like teams applying to outline how they will ensure people will not be using AI to do their homework tasks.
There are no restrictions on Steem Power, Reputation, nationality, language or community affiliations. The only restriction is that no team member should be powering down.
Posts should also contain the contact details (Telegram/Discord) of all team members.
Posts should be submitted by 11:59 pm UTC, on Tuesday, February 4th, 2025.
Application posts should include the tag #teachingteam in the first four tags.
Checking & Grading Posts
Teaching Teams should promptly check all assignments.
They should each have a standard comment and grading format that focuses on the quality of the post and how well it has met the requirements of the assignment.
The comment does not need to include any other information about club status or beneficiaries etc. The only checks needed are for plagiarism and AI content generation.
Teams should review and grade participants’ homework posts promptly. They should have a wide enough spread of marks out of 10 and give detailed commentary on how posts can be improved. Good marking comments will be rewarded appropriately.
Homework posts from students following each course do not need to be posted in a particular community and should instead be tracked through the use of appropriate tags.
Selection of Weekly Winners
Each week we would like the Teaching Teams to make a post announcing the 4 best assignment posts for the week.
All the weekly winners, as well as the announcement posts, will receive extra prize votes from @steemcurator01.
Introducing Steemit Learning Clubs
From observing the Learning Challenge teams operating so far it is clear that it is the courses based around practical activities that are least likely to have their homework tasks done by AI.
We therefore want to experiment with Steemit Learning Clubs that will be based solely around practical activities.
These Learning Clubs will be run by teams of up to three Club Mentors who have experience and expertise in the area the Club covers.
Instead of setting specific tasks each week people will be invited to post about a project they have done, or are currently working on, during each week.
The Club Mentors will then comment upon, and give feedback, helpful tips and guidance for the project.
We will also be rewarding other people participating in the Club who give feedback and contribute ideas on other people’s posts.
Initially the Learning Clubs we will be looking to form will be…
- Cooking & Baking
- DIY (including for example decorating a room, building a bookshelf)
- Gardening & Food Production (including for example animal keeping, food preservation)
- Knitting, Crochet & Sewing
- Repair (including for example fixing a motorbike, mending a washing machine)
- Technology (including for example building a PC, installing a CCTV system)
As with the Learning Challenges, the Learning Clubs will make a post each week with their selection of the four best project posts that have been submitted.
Additionally at the start of the week, the Club Mentors should take turns in making a post about a project they have just completed or are currently working on, including tips about what they have learnt from the project.
If you would like to apply to become a Club Mentor, you should make a post including…
- the Learning Club you are applying for (from the list of six Clubs above)
- details of your experience and expertise in the subject area be it professional or hobbyist
- brief details of your history on Steem, and your current stats.
Application posts should include the tag #clubmentor in the first four tags, and be submitted by 11:59 pm UTC, on Tuesday, February 4th, 2025.
From all the suitable applicants we will select teams for as many of the clubs as possible.
In your application post you are welcome to suggest other applicants you would like to work with, but we may not follow those suggestions.
As this is an experimental project the rewards for the Club Mentors will be higher than those for the Teaching Teams.
We are excited to see how these Learning Clubs will work.
Steem has great potential as a learning platform but we must find ways to overcome the challenge of AI.
We welcome feedback on how we can build on and improve what we have started with the Steemit Learning Challenge program.
The exact number of Teaching Teams and Learning Clubs will be determined by the quality of the applications received.
The Crypto Academy will continue as one of the Teaching Teams.
People are welcome to submit applications for both the Teaching Teams and the Learning Clubs but they will only be selected for one or the other.
We hope everyone will enjoy #learningwithsteem.
Thank you
The Steemit Team
It's sounds great about steemit learning club ,it will certainly minimize and might be eliminate the Al content and users as well ,the learning challenges must based on practical and including the rules that for valid entry considered only when learner submit entry date , username along with current your work .I always participated in activities base challenges ever and submitted my best as possible and always got rewords from the big boss 🤗🤗 ,I highly thanked full for there kindness.
I really appreciate the practical presentation idea including by the steemit team in learning challenges ,theories based challenges never fruitful courses in my suggestion,if you did extra ordinary work and truly learned by the course it should be see in your work ,will definitely applying soon and join steemit learning club I strongly believed on hard work and dedication with honest and original content /work .
"C .S Lewis"
Good luck to you all .... 👍👍
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Excelente propuesta. Lamento que no aparezca entre los clubes de aprendizaje la opción de redacción de textos de distintos órdenes discursivos. No olvidemos que un texto bien redactado es un producto lingüístico de un pensamiento coherente.
Una vez dicho esto, pregunto: ¿Habrá posibilidad de laborar una propuesta de club de aprendizaje relacionado con el tema de "Bestiarios":
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Indeed a great positive change and there would be many new things to learn, I hope in this challenge the professor would be active in review rather to see the unreviewed posts for many days.
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I applaud such changes for increasing prosperity on the Steemit platform. This will be a great way to present Steemit as a transparent and quality-compliant platform. I think learning practical topics would be a great strategy to keep posts free from abuse. Better life and learning with Steemit will take this platform to greater heights. Steem on...
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Greetings steemit team!
There is no any doubt that steemit learning challenge was the great initiative on this platform, giving a chance to learn something about a specific field. Learners can get knowledge about the field of their interest. Inshallah I will also submit my application as a teacher of my specific field.
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Greetings steemit team,
Thanks for the new update. Over the years, the Steemit team has brought various projects to us. Although they are actually good, some users have had to tighten the rules a bit because they are using tools like AI to do homework tasks. Introducing these new Steemit Learning Clubs will really help reduce the use of AI. Because it is a good way to reduce the use of AI to a great extent by doing practical activities and by doing challenges that have to be done, rather than tasks that have to be done by searching for information using various sources.
Some of are use AI tools to answer questions on complex topics that are not within the scope of their daily lives. Here, the user does not know the answer to the question asked, so he or she uses AI to write it. But if the questions are actually based on the activities of the users' daily life, they know about it well. For example, a woman who does housework often knows about things like cooking, baking, gardening. So she will not need to use another tool to search for details.
The knowledge possessed by each user is different. Some people can cook well. Some can make beautiful crafts. So it is best to increase such practical activities. Also, users should know, not to write about things they do not know. Not all of us can participate in all the courses in the learning challenges. If there are 7 courses, first look at the list and choose only what you can do and write a article about it. If there is something that you cannot write, leave it out. Personally, I don't participate in things like baking and cooking. Because I don't have the ability to do that yet, I avoid those courses. But I hope to learn those things. And if there are courses that I can do, like crafts, I do them. That's how it is, not everyone can do everything.
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Very good initiative, new activity on Steemit.Maybe this is an opportunity to reshape the platform in a new way.If there are any restrictions for the teaching team to apply, they should have been mentioned. If there are no restrictions, then I would like to apply.
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Saludos y bendiciones, a mi me gustaría que le dieran la oportunidad a: Aplicación del Desafío de aprendizaje psicología del dibujo, ellas se postularon en el desafío pasados. Me gustaría acotar lo importante que es saber lo básico sobre mismo , ya que la mayoría de usuarios de steemins, somos padres, abuelos, etc. tenemos niños, tengo entendido que a través de un dibujo, el niño puede trasmitir y expresar psicológicamente su comportamiento y el por qué del mismo, se que todos los demás desafío son muy buenos ya que se aprende a traves de ellos. Pero también es importante saber aunque sea lo básico sobre el comportamiento del ser humano, aunque sea a través de un dibujo. En psicología tiene sus significado. Esto es a título personal y es mi inquietud. Gracias por su atención.
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