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12 Nov 2023
I'm not building a school. I'm fundamentally changing the way we do school.
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Looks like Wall-E is becoming more and more of a reality
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"Teaching is knowing the difference between ‘I taught it’ and ‘They learned it.’"
-- John Wooden
teachlikeachampion.org/blog/…
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May 20
Capping grades is a horrible idea. Imagine taking a course and realizing there was a limit to who could be successful. This will destroy motivation.
A better solution is having a more transparent and objective process for measuring student performance. This is literally what I’ve been working on. If after that, too many students are achieving A’s then maybe you could make the course more cognitively demanding, but that means that your course activities need to match your course claims and objectives. Which would mean making the course objective more ambitious.
May 20
Breaking news: Harvard faculty votes to cap the number of A's awarded in course grades, a big step in combatting the grade inflation that has been dumbing down our courses, conveying the wrong message to students, and making universities a national laughingstock.
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May 20
Let me fix the headline: Billionaire Jeff Bezos says the bottom half of US workers should pay zero income tax, JUST LIKE HE DOES.
May 20
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Billionaire Jeff Bezos says the bottom half of US workers should pay zero income tax.
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May 20
I love meeting members of the education community who want to fix education AND are capable of fixing education.
May 20
As annoying as Twitter can be, I really love this community of people who want to make schools better for kids and want to talk about every detail of curriculum and education
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May 19
“getting every child to a level where they can participate effectively in society is more important” this is precisely why I am using an adapted version of Evidence-centered design to rebuild the function of “school”.
Simply put: schools should help students find and do their purpose.
May 19
I have changed my mind about this. I used to argue that progress measures were more important, but now I think that getting every child to a level where they can participate effectively in society is more important. Plus, progress measures advantage schools with higher achievers.
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May 18
This is largely the state of education “innovation “ at the moment. A bunch of technical people telling educators they don’t know what education is.
The funny thing is, everyone is kind of right, the problem is they do not have enough perspective to see the nuance to tell what exactly they are right and wrong about.
May 16
The trouble starts when we think we understand a field we’re not a part of. All reform comes from within. All advice from the outside is wildly reductive.
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May 18
What I’m learning is that the slides aren’t for the person who knows what they are talking about, they are for the audience who do not know what the speaker is talking about.
Hence why Steve Jobs did his annual product launches with slides.
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If we could all love one another as much as these two, we’d have world peace.
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May 16
The main cause for social dysfunction is a lack of a 3rd space for communities to learn, grow, and spend time together.
It really is the central problem.
Now what we learn, how we learn in this space are two fundamental solutions that are required to support this space.
But ultimately, the US in particular, is suffering gravely with how we have organized our people. x.com/jawwwn_/status/2055357…
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May 12
I’ve been writing a Teachers’ Creed for 13 years and just came up with my favorite point:
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I'm not building a school. I'm fundamentally changing the way we do school.
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I completely agree.
Here’s my take:
Before the learning of science movement bothers teachers, we need to fix our house first. We have so many problems. One high impact problem is that we have so many theories about similar topics and no one is synthesizing those theories into a coherent framework for researchers to continually improve, and certainly not synthesized enough for a teacher to enact.
That is just one major issue.
As a former teacher and now learning scientist, I believe a new approach to learning sciences, and social sciences as a whole, is needed. And a new approach to education too. End-to-end.
Anything else are bandaids.
I may be proving your point, because it appears I’m saying “my approach is the only way”. But what I’m saying is no one bandaid is going to heal learning sciences or education, we need a new blueprint. Maybe my blueprint will work, maybe not. But a first principles approach is we need a new blueprint.
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May 12
In the age of AI, where learning content will only become more abundant, a blueprint and learning management system for organizing that content into the most efficient learning process will be the most important contribution.
Coming soon :)
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In the age of AI, where learning content will only become more abundant, a blueprint and learning management system for organizing that content into the most efficient learning process will be the most important contribution.
Coming soon :)
29 Nov 2025
We just made an app that walks you through designing a novel protein with AI from scratch. Takes about 5 minutes, requires zero biology knowledge.
➡️ design-a-protein.com
The best part: we will actually synthesize 1000 of those protein designs in the lab and test their real world function as a therapeutic.
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May 11
This learning experience we are building will create a version of this future:
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Solarpunk is a movement that imagines a sustainable and optimistic future where humanity thrives in harmony with nature.
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I feel crazy to say this but my current frustration is that I have too many answers to too many problems and not enough time to explain these answers well enough to convince people with money to fund me to use the answers to solve all these problems.
This post will age well.
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