Hypothetical Final Project Ideas

Please enter no more than 10 (per person) hypothetical final project ideas for this class.

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  1. Life Long Learning Big Apps

  2. Google Hangout Mannequin complete with working neck.
  3. Structure for 1pt ITP Fall Class competency based, using online resources.
  4. Online office hours with mechanism for charging.
  5. Demand-Driven Education. Student community crowdsources what it wants to learn and demands it from school. School teaches whatever student community demands. Similar to a reddit style “upvote” system.
  6. Volunteer experts teach “at need” groups both locally and abroad via Google Hangouts.
  7. A way to quantitatively analyze a student’s performance other than grades
  8. A github-like version control system for students’ documents/papers…able to share with teachers, fellow students
  9. A platform that mediates between a student and all the on-line education sites/videos/mediums.
  10. A tutoring website that enables Real-Time Communications by video, voice, chat and drawing medium.
  11. An education aggregating site that allows you to gather tutorials, lectures and any other course from all over the internet
  12. Make your own curriculum of video lectures/online tutorials on something good to know at ITP.
  13. A guide to creating an interactive online teaching experience
  14. A membrane that mimics the feel of someone being in a space with you.
  15. Training retirees to share their soft knowledge
  16. A badge system that rewards you with technical abilities or “powers”
  17. Minigames in popular game arenas that test skills in need in the marketplace or for an academic institution to find prospective students
  18. A mobile live-streaming station for the ITP floor (similar to Mick and Mark’s mobile DJ station).
  19. An online interactive classroom for of whiteboards so online students can work “in class” together (see KTLs Draw Cave).
  20. A mobile and modular workspace system for the ITP floor (to potentially increase the number of students who can work on the floor).
  21. HTML 5 face tracking solution to measure engagement
  22. E-harmony like algorithm for matching students with courses
  23. e-portfolio and social reading combo
  24. integrated voice to text commenting ability for papers, slides, and spreadsheets
  25. A learning community where you get achievements through teaching other members
  26. Robust pretesting to understand what kind of learner are you, and catering the experience to that.
  27. Taking cues from fiverr.com, a marketplace for selling your knowledge, and buying skills.
  28. a hackerspace model for less populated areas.
  29. what you read ( articles, blogs, books) becomes an impromptu lesson
  30. making an online course using youtube, vimeo and annotation
  31. Degree curator, where you hand-pick content from the web, a aggregate it together
  32. API standard definition, for MOOCs to assimilate and integrate
  33. Video annotation system where comments flow horizontally in sync with the video’s timeline
  34. Screen-sharing among a class, with display control from remote user (e.g. the teacher)
  35. Leveraging SMS ubiquity and low (or none) cost in class interaction / evaluation
  36. Transformable furniture: achieving more flexible classrooms
  37. Viralization fo our class train of thought; including more people in the brainstorming about disrupting education
  38. The Degree Game: a video game where players solve curriculum issues, in exchange for degrees granted by NYU
  39. An environment where you can trade skills (teach and learn from one another).
  40. A pre ITP summer prep course to get students in similar levels at the start of their first semester. The classes could perhaps be taught by the residents.
  41. A business program where no money is exchanged and the only unit of currency is time
  42. A life-long learning portfolio site geared towards helping people keep track of learning experiences both in and out of the classroom.
  43. An auction site for micro-skills
  44. A subscription based mentor model.
  45. An app that maps educational resources and deadlines needed to complete large projects
  46. A school that offers 4 week courses instead of 10 weeks.
  47. A short lesson on one topic sent every day to your smart phone via email or an app.
  48. An internet tagging bookmarklet designed to accumulate web writing on a certain topic. Crowd sourced learning material.
  49. Some of the best teaching is made by metaphor. A website where you make a metaphor about a topic you know really well, and it is ranked for accuracy by community voting.
  50. Combine two groups that do not commonly work together (like artists and economists) and have them create a new piece of media together.
  51. A website where people post images of items that they use in their jobs, but is unrecognizable to people who do not work in the field. You must then write what you use it for and why you either hate it or like it.
  52.  If higher education is about making people smarter about something, imagine a system of grading that looks at the overall difference in your education level from at the start of the class vs at the end. People who move the farthest score the highest grades.
  53. Teach a fifth grader: A website where you take a complicated idea you know and teach it to a fifth grader. How well can you communicate complicated ideas?
  54. A website that lists the best books for self-led learning.
  55. Adapting ifixit for a course.
  56. Using museums as classrooms. Create a curriculum around visiting the city’s many museums.
  57. Using new york city’s landmarks and history to teach about science, engineering, art and history.
  58. a website where users list tasks they enjoy doing , do well, and matching up jobs that use those skills.
  59. Research has found that exercise leads to stronger memories and learning. An educational experience that links an exercise routine and a rigorous class.
  60. Faculty Pro Bono: some portion of a tenured professor’s time is spent giving free tutoring and mentoring to high school students.
  61. Should i pay lots of money for a degree: A web resource that takes any career and shows the current ROI of going into debt for an education.
  62. Take one, leave one. To get access to learning material, you have to create learning material that is used by the community.
  63. Make a playlist of learning materials for the incoming 1st years, so that they aren’t knocked off their boots when they come here this Fall.
  64. Create some new method of creating video tutorials (aka green screens, kinects, robot arms)
  65. Create an educational website where membership is required and fees are $20k a year.
  66. Create an immersive psychedelic school, where students study themselves and the universe with hallucinogens, and report their progress through interpretive dance.
  67. Make a video tutorial for every little action you take between waking up and leaving your apartment. Things like a tutorial on “How to Brush Your Teeth,” and “Cooking the Perfect Egg.”
  68. Elite, invite-only online school where everyone has to be super smart and teach their fellow geniuses at least 1 class a week.
  69. Teaching code through Harry Potter magic. Kids learn how to program by programming Harry Potter spells. // I found something quite similar, maybe?
  70. Business model for a draft-based arts program, i.e., run arts schools like professional sports, with scholarships, professional assistance, a basis for future employment, etc
  71. Factcheck.org-like website for educational legislation/outcomes/costs.
  72. Grant proposal for higher-education version of ED Data Express
  73. API model for higher education data provider, something less opaque than the National Center for Education Statistics.
  74. Advocacy campaign for New York State to participate in educational data transparency
  75. Economic projection model for what a society of informed students might look like (e.g., the demand for the business manager might be great one year, and the market may find itself over-saturated 4 years later)
  76. Prototypical model for a system to match talent with demand
  77. Moveon.org website model for educational legislation and data transparency advocacy
  78. Simulation of the University environment for younger learners.
  79. Devise a plan to allow higher education to translate into real-world job skills — Why are all degrees 4 years, then 1 or 2? How can all students be the same? Challenge the system of a “degree.”
  80. Indentured Students…Explore payment plans other than loans. Should companies sponsor students in exchange for their employment? How would that effect the student experience?
  81. De-Sequencing degrees. Graduate school is very different from undergraduate. some people have multiple degrees. Can we un-stack the degrees? Make them a-la-carte?
  82. Incorporating self-teaching into the curriculum of middle school and high school students to encourage free thinkers as they rise up to college.
  83. Designing an ‘unschool’ for Montevideo.
  84. A Music by Numbers course à la Printing Code, using soundcloud, github, online apps, etc. Present elements of music through constrained exercises, to be realized by coding. Gradually get to a final open assignment.
  85. Implementing a reaction video-tagging tool (“got it”, “interesting”, “surprising”, etc.)
  86. Implementing Yuliyas coffee roulette idea.
  87. Design and prototype new standing desks for the ITP floor that utilize the pillars and space around them.
  88. Back channel for class discussion and Q&A
  89. Greatest clicker smartphone app
  90. Translate existing learning content
  91. Collaborative tools for lab based methods.
  92. Documenting how to start a biospace.
  93. Design a DIY medical school curriculum.