Devendra Trivedi

Most startups begin with funding. Ours began with a physics lab in a school.

A teacher isn't just delivering facts. They are architects of civilization. So the real question every teacher should ask themselves each morning is: "Am I building something today?" If the answer is yes, incredible. If the answer is no, that's worth sitting with deeply. For a teacher who truly feels that weight, a broken school culture isn't just exhausting. It's standing between them and their real purpose.

If you’re a teacher and your first thought walking into school is “what is going to happen today” or “I just have to get through today”—instead of what you’ll be teaching—something isn’t right in your school culture. And you deserve better.

Yes whole day was full of great insights, conversations, lots of questions, discussion, delicious food and great memories...

@jliemandt @steipete have a lot of question to ask, DMed you...

@dev_trivedi2011 @steipete 🙏

🇺🇸 U.S. adults: “Ban AI in schools.” 🇨🇳 China: students (and adults) lining up by the thousands to learn OpenClaw. 🚀 Alpha School: our students getting recognized by OpenClaw’s creator @steipete and presenting at ClawCon. One of them is 15 and has earned $30,000+ in contracts. American schools are debating whether kids should touch AI. Our kids are building with it. 🛠️

Had a wonderful meet with @eduwithtina. A US based educator raised in both Indian and American Classroom. she is genuinally cares about the deep cracks forming in education today. We are planning special online session for indian teachers community where Tina Ji will share what she lived, learned and observed across two completely different education system.

@LassFree @MrDanielBuck it's really hopeless situation.

@dev_trivedi2011 @MrDanielBuck It's a parochial system, so there's no authority beyond school walls to address home learning environments. Within the system, we teachers did what we could, but mostly the system graduated functional illiterates. City schools were worse and more violent. Social promotion Kabuki.

8th graders can't properly add or subtract 6th graders counting on their fingers 5th graders who can barely read 10th graders who can't do 2x5 in their head I don't think people realize just how bad it is in schools right now

@Cshort2135 @sage_stage That's really generous, thank you!! dropping you a message now.

@dev_trivedi2011 @sage_stage I just opened my chat feature. I haven't used that much. ;-)

Kids on an IEP, never works in class. But he turns it in eventually and it's immaculate. What's the play here?

@LassFree @MrDanielBuck I never expected the gap to be this deep... What is the education department actually doing about this????

@dev_trivedi2011 @MrDanielBuck It depends on the school. When I started at an inner city school, the principal advised me that our HS sophomores averaged a 1st grade reading level. In the suburbs it was better, but I'd estimate average sophomores at ~5th grade level. Science textbooks were beyond most of them.

Teachers were never just babysitters.... and in the AI age, their role becomes even more irreplaceable. When every child has superintelligence in their pocket, the question won't be "who teaches them?"-- it will be "who guides them, believes in them, and shapes them as human beings?" That's the teacher. But this is true for teachers who go beyond just delivering lessons. the ones who counsel, inspire, push, and truly know each student. That kind of teacher becomes the most valuable person in a child's life in the age that's coming.

For anyone out there who TRULY believes that #Teachers are just glorified babysitters... I challenge you to come sit in on a classroom, & see the amount of EXTRA stuff that happens... From counseling, encouraging, motivating, instructing, inspiring, etc that happens EACH DAY! 👨‍🏫

@techkelsey I've been noticing a lot of pessimism among US teachers when it comes to AI. What was the mood in this program? were teachers genuinely curious or mostly resistant?

@amylpie @nearpod Impressive !! Is there a recording available to watch the session now?

I'm excited to be presenting at #campengage again this year! Come check out all the fun things you can do with @Nearpod!

@eduwithtina @MrDanielBuck Heartly Thank you...!! That kind of insight is hard to find. I'm closely connected with thousands of Indian teachers through multiple non-profit missions. and since you're Indian too, one good idea just struck me. Please check your DM.

The system is definitely collapsing here -- with wrong incentives at every level of education -- and it has been creeping into universities as well. Academia at universities is a whole new discussion. Yes, I did some Pre-K, grades 2-6, and part of 7th and 10th grade in India (my family moved a lot for my dad's job). So most of elementary school was in India and the rest in the United States. I also skipped grade 1 when I went from the US to India after Kindergarten because of the mismatch in school year start/end dates. The system collapse in America is more recent, but the curriculum has been consistently poor for at least the last 25 years. Even as a child I noticed the stark contrast between Indian and American schools. How India would be challenging (sometimes too challenging) but America was a breeze. I didn't even have to think in the US, I'd pass everything automatically because I had already done it two to three grades ago. In seventh grade, when our science teacher asked us what a radius was in passing, I was the only student who raised her hand in a class of 30. I was genuinely shocked, and that was one of the wakeup calls for me. India has its own issues, but a poor, non-sequential curriculum is not one of them. Their rigor in high school can be considered to be too much imo. Too much pressure and too much narrowing of future options in 11th grade (or +1). But American schools are the opposite end of the spectrum with almost no challenge given to the student and abysmally poor preparation for life ahead. My elementary education in India set up immaculate foundations for me for the rest of my life because the curriculum is absolutely incredible. I studied under the CBSE system with NCERT books mixed in with others from my school. High school in India is different, and I prefer high school in America (but I wouldn't now because of how the standards have drastically dropped since I graduated). And you're right, there is absolutely no negotiation with grades there. It's considered fraudulent. Of course, it still happens, but teachers and admin go to jail for it if they get caught. Imagine that here, nearly every school is guilty of it.

This reasonates deeply in india also, even students from the best schools arive having memorized everything but understood little. the exam become destination not the learning... but i want to know that when you say students arrive below grade level in literacy, how significant is the gap in reality? are we talking slightly behind or years behind??

@dev_trivedi2011 @MrDanielBuck In my experience as a HS science teacher, students arrived in September below grade level in literacy and math skills. Academic skills were poor. Many students expect to memorize their way through school and want to learn from 'practice tests', rather than develop comprehension.

@VitaminVVisions @MrDanielBuck Fair skepticism and still you don't know abything about me. I'd rather focus on building something great than words. 😊

@dev_trivedi2011 @MrDanielBuck BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! SO you're just another scam artist shilling the latest Box of Bullshit so you can make money off of education while doing NOTHING for kids... BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! The ONLY difference is you're also part of the AI boondoggle... ERGO... You're dismissed...

What you're describing sounds like a complete collapse at every level- not just one broken part, but the entire structure failing together..... Reading your background- I'm curious, do you have any connection to the Indian education system? Because coming from India myself, one thing that always existed there was the non-negotiability of grades. A parent could complain but the grade wouldn't move. The number meant something. How broken does this US system feel compared to that?? Would love to hear your perspective from both sides.

Everyone knows the foundational gaps are there, but there is no integrity left in the system anymore. Parents push for their child to be passed along and admin caves to their demands because they don't want to bother and they want to protect their graduation/pass rates. No one listens to the teachers. The good ones are given "paperwork" and pushed out if they oppose this unethical system. The teachers remaining are the ones who are resigned, don't care about academic integrity anymore, and/or aren't knowledgeable in their subject. There are very few teachers left in the system who have any sort of leverage against the admin to deny unethical passing/grade inflation. It's become normalized to cheat, for parents to demand grades to be inflated unethically, and for admin to dismiss concerns about student behavior. It's very hard to do the right thing in this system. All incentives push the parties to worse and worse outcomes.

This is a really sophisticated framework. it takes serious skill and experience.... The part that stands out most is doing all of this without making any student feel singled out or different. That's not just teaching that's a human art...!! in your experience, where does this framework most commonly break down? Is it class size, time, or something else entirely??

@dev_trivedi2011 @teachthemx3 Continued…this is where differentiation comes in. Students will work indecently when they can do the work and out challenged to extend their understanding. The teacher is helping the other students fill in learning gaps. Extension and intervention in the sane lesson.

The current format of schools: Teacher teaches a lesson then assigns practice. Some students finish in 10 minutes and sit for the remainder of class. Some finish by the end of class. Some finish at home or over multiple days. Some never do it. These students should not all be in the same class together.

This is what the future of education actually looks like - not AI replacing teachers, but AI giving students and teachers system powerful enough to turn a 7 year old's imagination into a 3D printed invention. Most schools are still debating whether to allow AI. Alpha is already living three steps ahead.

This is what the future of education actually looks like - not AI replacing teachers, but AI giving students and teachers system powerful enough to turn a 7 year old's imagination into a 3D printed invention. Most schools are still debating whether to allow AI. Alpha is already living three steps ahead.

One of my side projects this week has been incorporating @openclaw as a tool for students at @AlphaSchoolATX. Every single Alpha high school student can have one now, AI tokens covered by Alpha and the agent's config tweaked to help with their big Alpha X projects. I'm also building custom Claws for the lower schools. E.g. the 6-7 year olds in Scottsdale are working with Sparky, an OpenClaw custom tailored to help them dream up an invention and eventually bring it to life through images and even 3D printing. No other school like it.

@Thebestfigen This Video is the best answer to all the questions about Teachers' role in AI Age. ironically, AI itself will be the greatest blessing in helping teachers truly shine in this role by handling all the repetative tasks and becoming the best co tutor to coach.

A teacher told the shyest student in the class that if he pulled out a blank sheet of paper, he would give everyone a perfect score on the exam. What the students didn't know was that both sheets of paper were blank. The teacher wanted to include him, and he succeeded.