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What It Takes to Build an AI Teacher (Tom Sayer, Ello)
We’ve spent the last few years talking about AI tutors. Tom Sayer and his team at Ello are going a step further: they’re trying to build an AI teacher.
Teaching means figuring out not only what a child got wrong, but why; deciding what the...
[Essay]: ESAs Are Creating a New Path for Education Innovation
This piece is the first in a series we’re publishing in partnership with Edtech Insiders. More is coming this fall, along with plenty of ways to join the conversation.
When I moved back to Texas a few weeks ago, I walked into one of the m...
AI Should Accelerate How We Learn About Learning (Rajen Sheth, Kyron Learning)
One of the possibilities I’m most excited about with AI has less to do with what the technology can teach us than what it can help us learn about learning itself.
We know a lot about how people learn. We know the value of productive strugg...
College Is an Expensive Career Exploration Tool. Here’s an Alternative. (Patrick O’Donnell, Ridgeline)
This interview is part of a series on AI, high school, and the Experience Gap. Our report, Closing the Experience Gap, makes the case for a high-school model in which at least 50 percent of formal learning is experience-based.
College is a...
Education Has an Ambition Problem (Justin Wenig, Starbridge)
Education has a founder talent problem.
I have interviewed many thoughtful people this year. Few have impressed me with their ambition as much as Justin Wenig.
You feel it when he talks. Justin uses his whole body, leaning into ideas and...
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