James ✡️✝️☪️

I'm not building a school. I'm fundamentally changing the way we do school.

fun weekend project... having ai go through every single paper in ERIC (a database of education research) inspired by the national reading panel, my goal is to synthesize all literacy research if you had an ai that ingested every piece of literacy research, what would you ask?

@jliemandt I enjoyed it, I’d give it a 6.5-7 out of 10 range. And for context Interstellar is one of my favorite movies and I have Interstellar at like 9/10.

@LifespanDevelop Recommended?

At Alpha School, motivation is everything. I haven't been able to convince the 3 "not math/science" girls 👇to read Project Hail Mary - a sci-fi novel that celebrates problem solving, growth mindset, and science as the solution. Maybe Ryan Gosling can. They've got tickets to the movie. We'll see if it leads them to the book.

@ashtilawat Do you think something similar could be adapted to a k12 school? Or is the timeline too long?

My first tech job was at Lambda School as an Associate Product Manager. I know how ISAs work. >>> Gauntlet AI does not do that. We’re a recruiting company with a training center. Students pay $0 - No ISA - No percentage of salary - 100% free for participants Even if you don’t take a job We charge employers This is how it should work. Different model. Aligned incentives.

Oh that’s not bad, i assumed they’d eventually directly compete with notion. They have a better database infrastructure. I think they can do much more, but for better or worse they like to do what THEY want to do. Personally I’d love to see them explore more “views” that actually represent how knowledge is semantically structured like 3d maps. But they seem bent on doing 2D efficiently. Once augmented reality hits if they didn’t pivot prior they will become obsolete like many other knowledge management apps. Or itd be cool if they created a marketplace to allow us to build on top of their incredible system. But going head to head against notion is going to be a challenge on its own. I wish them luck!

Put crudely: 1.sorry for the mess in communicating this updade 2.Tana split: a) Tana as we know it (Tana Old) b) New Tana (Tana Notion) 3. Tana will continue to work on Tana Old-but as we know, that becomes difficult in the long run - Tana Sunset coming up? 4.Tana Notion geared towards documents, enterprises, meetings-not clear how the things people loved from Tana Old/Sunset will be in Tana Notion 5. AI/MCP integration or takeover More seriously, I think you want love collaboration and your company implements Tana company-wide, want something like a mix of Notion, Capacities with some features from Tana Outline then it could be for you

Finished watching the @tana_inc AMA - interesting, but seems to be a bit of a knee-jerk reaction to try and capture the masses/corporates. Will be interesting to see where it goes, but maintaining 2 products, tricky.

I love it! Keep crushing it, i cant wait to graduate so i can join the fun. What yall are doing is so motivating. So many people told me i was crazy for wanting to change education and even crazier for getting a PhD in learning sciences to change ed. Now that yall have came around, i look a little less crazy :)

@LifespanDevelop haha it’s all good i mainly mean stuff like animations, currencies, gamification although on the other hand alpha does use xp in all apps, including this one

today a guide told a student “you’re done with all your work so you can do anything you want” the student went to my app the wildest part: my app has exactly zero motivational features. i’ve made it as boring and rigorous as possible the most de-motivational experience for a student is an app that sucks at teaching

That is helpful. I guess my confusion is what you mean by “motivational stuff”. I feel like we may have different definitions of motivation and the aspects of ui that “motivate” individuals to start and persist with using the app? Motivation is much broader than just positive reinforcement bells and whistles like points and fun animations when you get a response correct. I guess by you not focusing on those weaker forms of motivating the user, you are identifying a different, and IMO more meaningful aspect of motivation, making the app experience itself intrinsically motivating to the task it was designed to provide. I agree that “nailing the basics of instruction” is the most Important part and by doing so you are resolving the “intrinsic motivation” to use the app. Where I think you and I are having a disconnect is that, when you “nail the basics of instruction” that in itself is inherently motivating to the student who wants to use the app to learn (intrinsic motivation). Then you can add additional weaker motivators (extrinsic) on top for the student who doesn’t care about learning. But where i think we both agree, even when you add those bells and whistles if the app is ineffective it won’t motivate any student to use it. A lot of people don’t like intrinsic motivation, and some don’t believe in it. But I am not talking about intrinsic motivation to the person but of the task. Does the task do what it was designed to do. I know it may sounds obvious that by doing what it was designed to do would motivate people to use it but basically that’s my point. Also you can ask the student why they chose to use the app, but some kids may not be able to articulate their reasons why and that’s okay too. Sorry for the novel I am on my last research question for my dissertation and I needed a break from statistics lol

the basic premise of the app is oral repeated reading, and the flow is: - introduce some key words - use text-to-speech to model how it should sound - read the passage aloud 3 times - comprehension quiz the ui has no frills, though we might add a few things to spruce it up a little this kid in particular does seem to inherently enjoy learning. the app i built is much better at facilitating that than what she was using before. i could potentially be convinced that motivational stuff helps on the margins, but it's not a replacement by any means for nailing the basics of instruction

@AdrielAviles I agree, as long as you consider holodecks in the ar category

VR isn’t the future, AR is.

Sounds great in theory but taking over govt schools in an effort to fix education is a fool’s errand, at least in the districts I’ve had experience with. My approach is building an entirely different learning experience and then if govt schools want to adopt this system they can.

@teachthemx3 @LifespanDevelop Good people never taking admin jobs is how they retain an iron grip on the admin jobs. We need to stop talking about checking out of schools and start talking about taking over schools, because that's what they did.

Conversation I just had with an AP: Me: “The first time many students will truly fail is in college or real life, when it actually costs them money. That shouldn’t be the first lesson.” AP: “not true…they fail and have to do test corrections.” Me: “No, that’s more like a temporary inconvenience. They put forth minimal effort and are guaranteed a passing grade.” AP: “There is no way to implement failure into the curriculum.” Me: “There is. It’s called accountability.” AP: (laughs) “That’s not going to happen.”

I agree. The lesson is to separate value in the sense of loving your child with value in the sense of how that child will contribute value to the world. When rhe child contributes that’s when they should be equally compensated. The beauty is young children love contributing and if we cultivate that, they never lose that desire.

Giving your child an unconditional allowance isn't generosity. It’s malpractice. It teaches entitlement over effort. The real world doesn't pay you for existing. It pays you for value.

@turing_hamster @garberchov Agreed and with minimal government involvement

love this! part of the solution to education is capitalism, competition, and free markets the easier it is to transact, the better the market functions

@oprydai Don’t look @thekitze

the art of 3D printing

@CodeXBT @nikitabier This a great response. They have 3 people working on x so we will never get support.

@nikitabier Probably the same time it takes to get a human answer from X Support

iOS developers: How long is App Review taking for everyone these days? It is now taking longer to get our app approved than it is to build the actual features.

Thanks! I definitely had help along the way, my wife, my nephew, father in law, friends, and paid pros for certain things like spraying texture, some of the mudding, tile, cabinets and countertop installation. Its good to balance budget and time. I learned a lot as an apprenticeship out of high school, then relearned nearly 20 years later from a friend. But its been almost 2 years and I’m exhausted. We started a business and I’m finishing my phd in the process oh and we got our first kid on the way. Lol life is happening so fast.

@LifespanDevelop @thekitze Yes! Man that’s awesome. It looks like a pro did it.

it never gets old to watch americans on youtube either drill or slice and open a wall in their house like it's made from cake 💀 cartoon ahh houses

@Crazy_Cool_L @thekitze The first pic is before and the rest are basically after. We still got some work to do but at least its livable for now :)

@LifespanDevelop @thekitze Well damn. Im impressed. Do you have finished pic or is it still in progress?

@Crazy_Cool_L @thekitze This is putting it back together. The pantry didn’t exist before. And it was a mission

@thekitze @LifespanDevelop I can do that…but putting it back together is another topic

@flowidealism This is beautiful.

Einstein's genius was not raw cognitive power. It was intellectual integrity. He was relentlessly honest about what he understood and what he did not. His definition of "simultaneity," leading to special relativity, is original but not complex. That is a specific habit, not a gift, and one most schools never cultivate. I am committed to developing this habit. Every day, I ask my students to identify what they understand and what they do not, in a reflective way, precise, sentence-by-sentence way. The student who says, "I understand the first half of this paragraph but not the second," is developing the habit of intellectual integrity. They are being scrupulous about the boundary between knowing and not knowing.