This is the best thing I've ever had a hand in making. Click in and check it out. 👇

Monday, @AEI hosts our next Education Policy Debate on the motion: Maximizing School Improvement by 2035 Means Integrating AI into Classrooms Today w/ AI Ed Project's Alex Kotran, Google's Shanika Hope, @Amplify's @ddmeyer, & Great Heart's Jake Tawney https://t.co/Lr9ELSEsSX

👋 Here is a zip file with all the handouts & slides people uploaded from the NCSM & NCTM annual conferences last month. Scraped the conference website. 400 files. 1GB. Who loves you? Me, that's who.

The main problem is not that kids find math class useless and irrelevant. The main problem is that math class finds kids useless and irrelevant. ~Dan Meyer @ddmeyer

🎙️ “Math class needs a makeover.” Our own @ddmeyer has been pushing that idea forward for years—through teaching, blogging, and building tools like Desmos. On the latest episode of the Math Ed Podcast, Dan reflects on his career in math education and what it means to make math

Heading to #NCTM? Come hang out with me at Amplify Arcade and Trivia Night on Oct 16 in Atlanta! 📷📷 Trivia, games, food, and fun! RSVP here:

.@karimkai is behind this I'm sure of it.

That moment when an absent student joins our @DesmosClassroom #Polygraph from home, and he and his partner "win" in only 4 questions! 😍 Do your students join your @Desmos activities from home when they're absent? It's become a thing this year, and I'm here for it! #iteachmath

"Your One-Minute Master Class on Effective Feedback" by @ddmeyer featuring #MfAProud teacher Liz Clark-Garvey teaching with high-information feedback.

📣 Starting in 15 min. Come hang.

Key insight from Stanford's Larry Cuban on what AI-in-education advocates get wrong about teaching ... h/t to @ddmeyer:

"While a single deficiency would be grounds for denial, the Department has identified deficiencies in all five of the required criteria." Gotta apply some aloe after reading this denial letter.

Good.

I wrote about the difficulty of trying to make a better teacher out of AI like Khanmigo. (Also, 24 hours after I posted this, Khan Academy changed Khanmigo, but didn't fix it.) https://t.co/U1cyHW8Egf

Something that makes me really sad is seeing the teachers who write the testimonials on AI edtech products having to get second jobs as stock photography models. Teachers like "Michelle (8th Grade Teacher)" deserve a living wage!

So glad to hear that @ddmeyer picked up on this story as well. Highly recommend you read his post for more context!

tl;dr --- No, they are not replacing teachers with AI, and yes, they have massive conflicts of interest. The Truth About 2 Hour Learning & Unbound Academy a/k/a The School “Replacing Teachers with AI”, by @ddmeyer

I have thoroughly enjoyed subscribing to @ddmeyer’s updates about teaching, technology, and math. The information he uncovers and shares is so interesting. Things aren’t always as they seem 🧐

Unbound Academy hasn’t replaced teachers with AI, as they claim. Their 2x learning in 2hrs, as far as I can tell, comes from replacing poor kids with rich kids. Coming to a state near you. Keep an eye out.

I’d love it if 2x the learning in 2hrs were possible in public school, but the only evidence we have is that it’s possible in private schools where parents have resources, where kids generally come to school fed and rested, where parents can afford backup tutoring.

2️⃣ Their board in AZ are also their vendors. Important because the board approves vendor purchases. Software exec MacKenzie Price wants to charge Unbound $6500 / student for software. Who approves that fee? MacKenzie Price, Unbound board prez! Big conflict. Check out PA too! 👇