Usage of Blockchain in Education @ Sony will use blockchain for school cybersecurity
It's a secure way to transport your
GPA data around, and also, Blockchain!
The
folks at Sony
Education are worried that some schlubby kid that's gonna fail gym could hack
their school and change their grade to a pass. It's why the company is teaming
up with IBM
to use blockchain to create a secure academic platform for storing records. The
idea is that every scrap of data about your kids' schooling goes into a record
that can then be stored securely. No kid, you gotta learn to climb that rope or
else you can kiss that scholarship to Harvard goodbye.
Sony
wants to use its platform as a way for schools to create a huge central
database of pupils in a given region. Should someone want, or need, to change
schools, they can do so easily because the untarnished records can simply be
pushed to the new institution. Plus, educators can look at things like
registration documents, attendance, grades and even the lesson plans that
previous teachers have used.
Blockchain
is king of all buzzwords, and so there's no surprise that Sony is also throwing
in some talk about AI for good measure. Sony believes that the system could, in
the future, enable folks to use AI to look for trends in the data and suggest
improvements to both curriculums and school management. And that makes some
sense, since there's no guarantee that schools are making the best use of the
data it has available to it.
Sony
is hoping to have its school system working well enough to sell it to schools
by 2018, giving schlubby kids just over a year to work out how to hack it.
Because, hell, what's more valuable, climbing that rope or undermining the
technology that's likely
to underpin the world financial system in a decade or two's time.
Regards
Pralhad
Jadhav
Senior Manager @
Knowledge Repository
Khaitan
& Co
Upcoming Lecture | ACTREC - BOSLA Annual lecture series (125th birth anniversary of father of library
science, Padmashree Dr. S. R. Ranganathan) on Saturday, 12th August 2017 at Advanced Centre for Treatment,
Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC), Kharghar, Navi Mumbai. (Theme | 'MakerSpace')
Twitter
Handle | @Pralhad161978
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