Homeschooling Dadx4. Building something new.
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I lived in Europe for about a year and a half, and I loved it. I’d love to go back and visit often, but I don’t think I’d move back.
I like the ambition and optimism of the average American, and I love that I feel like I can make an impact here in ways I couldn’t there.
The internet told them Europe was a social paradise. Turns out the trains are awful, the health care isn’t free, and people can be really mean. buff.ly/5cLtnha
If any educators want to give feedback, it'd be much appreciated!
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I've changed how I teach history this year. Inspiration on the new method from Herman Ebbinghaus, @DTWillingham, and general cogsci readings.
I call the new method "Catalytic Stories"... admittedly an average name.
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I'm hiring for someone's dream role @theacademysf: student recruitment.
Here's what the person I'm looking for will do and looks like:
This person will oversee our student recruitment funnels. You'll travel the world to give talks in schools and meet applicants, spend your days on the phone building trust with families, and work with our industry partners to reach their communities.
Here's the archetype I see for this person: junior, extraordinarily talented, high energy, golden retriever vibes. Embodies the ethos of the school. Tech savvy enough to keep up with the extremely technical projects our applicants work on.
Young people need to like you, and you need to genuinely like them. Take them seriously, treat them like peers, and be curious about what they're building. You should get excited talking to these people, not because you're trying to recruit them, but because you find them fascinating.
You need to LOVE talking to people, that's 90% of the job. You also need to be comfortable traveling a lot.
This is a role for a junior person (open to mid-level or senior if you're willing to be in the trenches with us!) who is extremely ambitious and capable of owning an extraordinary amount of responsibility. You'll be one of the main intermediaries between the world and our school, and for many people, their first impression of The Academy.
I'm actively interviewing candidates for this. If you're interested, apply through our career page and ping me once you've submitted. If someone I know can vouch for you, you'll get on my radar even faster.
If you know anyone who fits the bill, I would be extremely thankful to hear from you as well!
Not sure how I didn’t add entertainment to the first category.
Also, perhaps a big problem with politics is that it should be in the second category, but unfortunately it’s difficult to blame a single individual for errors and therefore we don’t get the accountability we need.
This mimics a useful framework that I apply increasingly often comparing a person’s CONFIDENCE vs COMPETENCE.
In some places like sports, business and politics, it seems to be beneficial for confidence to significantly exceed competence (often significantly).
However in other places like medicine or engineering (when risk is real and significant) it behooves you to have competence align with or slightly exceed confidence.
Makes sense.
Using the η=A×M×Q heuristic, a learner might go from A=.7, M=.8 with phones to A=.9, M=.9 without: 45% higher modeled learning efficiency at fixed Q.
(Illustrative assumptions not values measured or inferred from this study.)
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Restricting student access to phones is associated with significantly higher academic performance.
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