Sandcastles

In our BrightZone sandbox, the mission is focused upon building sandcastles. These are exploratory research and development projects that have been built with the collective creative wisdoms of passionate and patient individuals. These sandcastle sculptors are committed to maximizing the opportunities for learners of all races, creeds, and family financial circumstances to improve and advance their lives through the use of safe digital learning by ending the Digital Learning Apartheid suffered in their at-home digital isolation.

In order for these sandcastles -- built by creative passionately patient sandcastle sculptors -- to be able to survive the play of real learners, they must be first become hardened for success through scientifically based research and testing. Their ultimate survival and future deployment as viable safe digital learning solutions will also depend upon foundations built upon creatively sound building bloX.

The goal for our scientifically based research and testing will be to measure the level of effectiveness of the use our sandcastles upon learner academic achievement while adhering to the U.S. Department of Education's What Works Clearing House Guidelines. The What Works Clearinghouse was established in 2002 by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences to provide educators, policymakers, researchers, and the public with a central and trusted source of scientific evidence of what works in education.

personal learning environment

A Personal Learning Environment is a facility for an individual to access, aggregate, configure and  manipulate digital artefacts of their ongoing learning experiences.

iGZMO

A small, handheld wireless computer that is voice activated. The computer would offer high-speed access to a kid-friendly Internet, populated with websites that are safe, designed specifically for use by [learners], with no pop-up ads. Using this device, [learners] would complete most of their in school work and homework, as well as take online classes both at school and at home.

eContent mastery tutoring

The system will greatly accelerate learning, lock information into long-term memory, and produce true eContent Mastery, which is defined as the ability to properly recall and effectively use information whenever it is needed.

eContent publishing

The BrightZone Personal Learning Environment’s integrated eContent publishing platform delivers its eduBlogcasts in a manner in which digital learning resources can be deployed in a simple and integrated fashion to the learners who learn most effectively utilizing any one of three of the four principle learning styles or a combination thereof.