Global Startup Weekend - EDU

Nurturing US Education Innovations

By Learning From

Top Countries’

K-12 Academic Successes

Mark Lee

mlee@alum.mit.edu

Dec 2011

New Technology Enables New Ideas

What Other Ideas Are Possible?

http://www.slideshare.net/eden_online/nick-allen

WP, Web browsing,

video conferencing,

two USB ports,

256 MB RAM.

US$45

Initial Idea

An Education Startup Weekend in Orlando

To Nurture Education Innovations

http://edu.startupweekend.org/

Challenge

An Orlando Startup Weekend EDU event

Sources Ideas (Primarily) From the USA

ORLANDO

How About

Learning From

These Countries?

Finland

Singapore

Top Countries Ranked By K-12 Academic Success

Why Are These Countries

Doing So Well Academically?

Finland

Singapore

What Can We Learn From Them?

Helsinki

Orlando

Singapore

A Global Idea: Host a Global Startup Weekend - EDU

To Collaborate Globally On Education Innovations

Global Startup Weekend – EDU Builds Upon

SW’s Vision of Transcending Boundaries

Startup Weekends

Transcend

Functional Boundaries

•Educators

•Developers

•Designers

•Business strategists

•Product Managers

•Startup Enthusiasts

Proposed Global

Startup Weekend – EDU

Transcend

National Boundaries

•Singapore

•Helsinki/Finland

•Orlando/US

EDU

Innovations/Startups

&

Nurturing Education Innovations

from Diverse Global Successes

Helsinki

Singapore

Orlando

A Global Startup Weekend EDU

(sometime between Jun – Aug 2012)

To Nurture

Bottom-Up Education Innovations

That Transcend National Boundaries

Each Site & Team Will Have Global Participation

Each Global Site

1+

On-Site

Educator Representative

from the other 2 Sites

Each Global Team

1+

Remote/Online

Educator Representative

from the other 2 Sites

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Gates Foundation Supports Startup Weekend – EDU

($250,000)

http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/07/startup-weekend-edu-receives-250000-grant-from-the-bill-melinda-gates-foundation/

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

has pledged $250,000

to the Startup Weekend EDU series of events,

the dedicated education-focused vertical

within the non-profit.

Solicit Funding For Global Collaborative SW EDU

Existing

Startup Weekends(Individual & Isolated)

Proposed Global

Startup Weekends – EDU(Global Collaboration)

Startup Weekend Org Startup Weekend Org

Helsinki

Singapore

Orlando

Peer-to-Peer

Global Collaboration

London

Singapore

Boston

Structure

How-To’s

Structure

How-To’s

Global

Collaboration?

Individual & Isolated

Events

As of Dec 20th, 2011

SingaporeUSA

Nov 17th Kickoff Meeting

In Orlando, FL

Presented Remotely

@ NIE’s 12/2 EDUCamp

Organizer

1

3

Started Conversation with

Singapore Government’s

Nat’l Institute of Education

Faculty

2

1

4

2

Warmup Event?

Host an EDUCamp

e.g. @ Berkeley

Contacted Startup

Weekend CEO, and

Talked with EDU Lead

3 Have contacted Finnish

Prof Moncef who will

share Finnish academic &

startup contacts

Supplemental Slides

13

Global Startup Weekend – EDU

A Bottom-Up “Little Bets” Opportunity

to Nurture Education Innovations

A little bet is

a low-risk action taken to

discover,

develop, and

test an idea.

“Surpassing Shanghai”

A Top-Down Agenda to Improve US Education

http://www.hepg.org/hep/book/142#

Surpassing Shanghai:

An Agenda for American Education

Built on the World's Leading Systems

This book answers a simple question: How would one

redesign the American education system if the aim

was to take advantage of everything that has been

learned by countries with the world’s best education

systems?

The message is clear: If we are serious, we have to

stop simply comparing California to Connecticut to

Kansas. It’s time to swim in deeper water with

Singapore, Ontario, Japan, and others who are eating

our lunch.

— John Merrow, education correspondent, PBS

NewsHour and president, Learning Matters

Google Supports Startup Weekend, Including EDU

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/supporting-entrepreneurs-around-world.html

Today, we’re announcing

a partnership with Startup Weekend—

a global organization committed to

promoting real entrepreneurship

in local communities. …

Participants gather on Friday, and

by Sunday afternoon, they launch a product.

This partnership will help Startup Weekend expand to dozens of additional cities

around the world and launch new vertical competitions focused on specific

themes such as education, health or gaming.

… we’ll be working to bring in Google’s developer community in the form

of Google Technology User Groups as an additional resource to Startup Weekend

participants.

(Announced Nov 10th, 2011)