CollatEd Lab

The UN Partnership network is central to CollatEd. The UN Sustainable Development Goal #4 demands quality education, which CollatEd tackles by changing how specific communities benefit from the Education Sustainable Development (ESD). Furthermore, CollatEd itself seeks to expand formally and functionally the UNESCO Youth Forum.CollatEd identifies broadly SDG, ESD, and GCED coalitions and stakeholders as the contributor for Challenges. But applied to the student population, Challenges™ is the first method of its kind to drive innovation and promote global citizenship among youth, provided a stable content flow. Where education is well-established, creating such a system of open innovation presents a clear parallel to the college-career framework that most schools in the Anglosphere has adopted. Shifting the mindset of school boards creates an important new education standard of collaborating with learners around the world. It also draws a paradigmatic focus to Educational Sustainable Development in particular communities, allowing students to impact their surroundings while pursuing their growth. CollatEd’s advancement of the Right to Innovate, in turn, has a systemic impact on developing societies and economies. The Challenges™ is designed for the final purpose of research benefitting the UNESCO and World Bank education accessibility initiatives. More than the universal access of digital materials, we seek an immediate idea-to-impact transference so that education is more widely accepted and impactful in communities. Also, due to the large population and understaffed nature of public schools, the teacher-to-student ratio is very low. The California Board of Education has recognized this problem and has endorsed CollatEd to begin in its schools. As an easy-to-install application, CollatEd divides the burden of block investments into manageable pieces for each student to download onto their own devices. This allows for schools to divert funding to areas important for the students’ wellbeing during attendance. In addition, CollatEd works in conjunction with existing systems, by opening direct links from Learning Management Systems to satisfy textbook learning objectives. These LMS incorporations funnel directly into broader change in American education standards: for student research in the social sciences and humanities, we selected the US Census Bureau’s Statistics in Schools (SIS) reference standards in the five priority areas highly impactful to civilizations and sustainability: Geography, History, Language, Statistics, and Sociology. For STEM applications, we selected five priority areas in general Mathematics, Engineering, Matter and Energy in Organisms and Ecosystems, Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems, and Human Sustainability, based on the Next Generation Science Standards.