Project Skill Tree is a fairly ambitious project with the goal of creating a free application that allows users to create, share, and link to existing skill trees.
Motivation
I was presenting example ideas of how to improve the U.S. education system for a school project and I came up with an idea of gamifying knowledge acquisition through skill trees. Months later, I was somehow reminded of this idea while teaching my sibling how to code. I have thought a lot about improving U.S. education and I think making U.S. education a more fun game to play is a step in the right direction.
Problems Solved
I feel like this application could solve the following problems in this order of prioritization:
- Help teachers create a self-paced curriculum for students, as well as keep track of their student's interests and progress.
- Allow students of all ages to find high quality online resources through educational links and book ISBNs embedded in the skill tree nodes curated by the skill tree author(s).
- Make education fun, visually appealing, and decentralized. This will be achieved through the "choose your own adventure" nature of the skill tree, dynamic interactive graphs, and community-driven contributions.
- Solve the "What next?" question through well-trodden learning paths in the form of recommendations.
- Encourage academic experimentation by prioritizing the option to forge one's own path.
- Passively creating a decentralized method of recording the process of world knowledge acquisition across many people.
- Decentralize the grading verification process: a system of verified professional graders (teachers, professors, instructors) can log in and grade their student's work. Each node will have an end-product project link to view their project somewhere on the web.
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