The AI School Kids Love More Than Vacation | Alpha School's Joe Liemandt
Alpha School principal Joe Liemandt talks with a16z and Gagan Biyani about rebuilding K-12 and college around AI tutoring, life skills and student motivation, aiming for schools kids love more than vacation.
The gist
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Liemandt says Alpha's AI engine keeps kids in an 80 to 85% correct zone, so they learn twice as much in 2 hours daily.
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In escape rooms, AI scores third graders' teamwork language; fourth and fifth graders must pass the Wharton MBA Challenge, which 50% of MBAs fail.
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Liemandt compares today's parents to 1910 farm towns that funded high schools they'd never attended, and says new campuses fill once early families show results.
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Liemandt says all Alpha kids read The Rational Optimist so they approach AI as builders, while Biyani urges picking a field you love.
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Alpha's Founder School guarantees students start a business earning $1 million in profit during high school, or they get their tuition back.
"The Wharton has an MBA challenge where they have a simulation that you take and it's go up Mount Everest. 50% of MBAs fail the teamwork... In fourth and fifth grade, we actually make them pass the Wharton MBA challenge."
▶ Play at 8:37"We need to create a generation of builders who look at this optimistically. All our kids read Rational Optimist, and they sit there and say, 'Yes, I'm in control of it, and we need to build our future.'"
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"We need to create a generation of builders who look at this optimistically. All our kids read Rational Optimist, and they sit there and say, 'Yes, I'm in control of it, and we n..."
"The Wharton has an MBA challenge where they have a simulation that you take and it's go up Mount Everest. 50% of MBAs fail the teamwork... In fourth and fifth grade, we actually..."
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