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CZ "starts a new business", what are the highlights of the open education platform Giggle Academy?

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Giggle Academy is an online education platform that is completely free and open to everyone.

Original title: "Zhao Changpeng starts a business again!" What’s the highlight of Giggle Academy? 》

Original author: 1912212.eth, Foresight News

Zhao Changpeng, who is still in the United States due to litigation, has not stopped moving forward. After founding the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, today he officially announced his next entrepreneurial project "Giggle Academy". According to the official website, Zhao Changpeng has regarded this project as a new chapter in his life, aiming to establish a high-quality education platform that is completely free and open to everyone.

Looking around the world, there are many excellent education projects around adult education, primary school to university, and even early childhood education. These Internet education are based on the universal benefit of mankind. It plays an important role in education and eliminates the negative impacts caused by geographical location, race, religion, belief, economy, culture and other factors in various regions around the world. As long as you have a mobile phone and can connect to the Internet, the ocean of knowledge is within your reach. .

Especially elementary school basic education, like the cornerstone of life, can help students lay a solid foundation of knowledge and develop good study habits and comprehensive qualities, which will be important in the future. There will be huge benefits at work and in life.

At present, the quality of some primary school education is actually uneven. Children in many areas still face problems such as lack of educational resources and low teaching quality. Some children can receive excellent resources at birth, while others are already far behind at the starting line. That’s exactly what Giggle Academy is trying to do.

Giggle currently provides personalized courses for students in grades 1-12, serving poor children in developing countries (and those who do not have access to education) Educational Opportunities. The contents include: basic reading, writing, foreign languages, Chinese, mathematics, science, physics, biology, and finance. At the high school level, the courses will cover programming, art, and emotional intelligence, negotiation, and finance that are rarely covered in schools. , entrepreneurship, sales, law, accounting, blockchain and AI related courses. To avoid unnecessary controversy, history and religion will not be included in the curriculum.

Giggle has the following highlights. One is richness. The educational content includes not only basic courses, but also courses such as emotional intelligence, negotiation, finance, entrepreneurship, sales, law, accounting, blockchain and AI that are not taught in schools. This part of the content is often taught in college, but for most people without financial strength, they do not have the opportunity to access these educational resources, and these contents are precisely the comprehensive content that is urgently needed in today's society, both in work and in life. Knowledge.

The second is fun. Giggle Academy is well aware of the principle of entertaining and entertaining, so it has incorporated more interesting elements into primary school-level courses, such as games, points, rankings, and even introduced concepts such as NFT to encourage children to develop good learning skills. Habit.

The third is Practicality. In full-time compulsory education schools, if you are good at math but poor at English, the school often wants you to make up for your shortcomings. But according to Giggle, this is not the optimal solution. Because spending time on things you are not good at will greatly waste one's talents.

Giggle is pragmatic and its main purpose is to develop what students are good at and make them stronger. The course does not focus on degree certificates, etc., but only points and other certifications, aiming to enable those children to find better jobs. Only when a person has a certain skill can he not fall behind in the increasingly fierce competition and be able to make a living in the future.

The fourth is free. Information revealed in the white paper shows that all courses are currently free. Although there may be fees for post-Grade 12 courses in the future, the basic learning phase will always maintain its public benefit nature. For courses after grade 12, the college will make adjustments based on specific circumstances, and outstanding students in the future may even be directly selected to enter major companies. In addition, the college also encourages teachers to upload their own educational materials, and will reward outstanding content.

Although there is not much content related to blockchain in basic education due to various factors, there are still some that are worth checking out.

Educational courses are completely online and will use AI and automation technology. Students will receive NFT rewards and SBT (soul bound tokens) based on learning progress and results. SBT cannot be transferred to others and can be easily verified on-chain by potential employers with the student's permission. In addition, Changpeng Zhao made it clear that Giggle will not issue tokens and that the project will be entirely funded by individuals.

Some people may ask, why not consider introducing the learn-and-earn model of blockchain? Zhao Changpeng revealed that although the "earn while learning" model may help convince parents to let their children continue studying, it will cause many problems, so this method will not be considered at the beginning.

Summary

Giggle Academy is open to content production, gamification product managers and game developers Three positions. Many netizens even applied for jobs in the comment area of Zhao Changpeng’s Twitter.

For basic education as a whole, Giggle will open the door to a new world for more children who do not have opportunities and resources to obtain education, and contribute to educational equality. It remains to be seen whether and when it will succeed. After all, he has built the most successful exchange Binance.

Some netizens left a message saying, "The only way to bring changes to the world is through education... The 9-page Satoshi Nakamoto paper has changed the world forever."

I believe that every seed sown today will eventually sprout in the future.