anki's spaced repetition system is not that good anki works great for autists who follow it strictly. you need to review EXACTLY what it tells you—no more no less normal people take holidays, get sick, or have fluctuating motivation at its core, anki schedules a specific day

one of the biggest tech challenges we have with alpha school / timeback is determining how much XP students should earn when using learning apps that are NOT natively part of the timeback platform a couple ways we are thinking about solving it are as follows: - have a chrome

i love people who spread the word about learning science. i also wish people would talk more about learning *engineering* learning science is not really rocket science, but schools struggle to implement it because of the constraints they operate under if you do just 2 things,

as much as i love alpha school / timeback, there is still room to improve many things, especially our K-2 reading instruction as i've noticed 1) our youngest students have drastically different motivation timelines. a 5 year old cannot think a month down the line, let alone a

had a chat with a couple people on alpha academics team. we have a phonics app in the works that should be usable in the schools and outside of the schools they asked if i could make them a feature for admins to customize lessons. i said no, because the algorithm will do that

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great example of pedagogy and scaffolding (with a dog). start with the simplest possible version of the desired skill. ramp it up slightly each day, and after 10 days a completely new skill is acquired

should edtech apps use OpenDyslexic font by default, as an option in the settings, or not at all?

how do we choose which learning apps to use at alpha school / timeback? (might be helpful for people who want their app to be part of the timeback ecosystem) to cover all K-12 subjects, we use a mix of in-house apps and external apps. we have some overall principles to help us

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these are the most used learning apps in alpha school / timeback, according to number of events in the database AlphaMath Fluency MobyMax Math Academy Lalilo Synthesis Tutor Mentava Alpha Read FastPhonics Alphawrite Amplify Membean EGUMPP ClearFluency TeachTales Anton

what if we had a timeback app store. apps that achieve the most learning per time get upranked and shown to more users and apps get a cut of timeback revenue based on learning outcomes just a thought

when we say timeback is an "ai tutor" i want to clarify that it's not just a chatbot. there are a lot of ai use-cases, some student-facing and some the student never sees #1 — using gen ai to massively accelerate the process of curating academic content. the project is referred

what if we made Timeback Home a homeschool where students learn 2x in 2 hours, have a virtual guide, socialize with peers, and do workshops would homeschool parents do this

it seems a certain portion of homeschool parents like to pick and choose learning apps / curriculums timeback is one fee for everything that is needed to teach a K-12 education

we’re basically building cluely inside timeback

potential idea for Timeback Home: ai guide that is trained on all alpha school guides banger idea or flop

spent all day talking to homeschool parents and learned a lot (thanks to yall) my main takeaways: majority care about the academics. guide + workshops + socialization is a nice-to-have. this could also be selection bias in the audience i've curated because i talk about learning

session 1 is wrapping up soon for alpha school / timeback — here's how we think about curriculum updates for session 2 homeschool parents actually approach curriculum pretty similar to timeback. both strive to use the best app/course for any given subject the main difference is