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[alexlindsay @alexlindsay]

@Brandongoodyear Cool!

[alexlindsay @alexlindsay]

@lonseidman Try it in LVCC… I’ve seen numbers as high as 2Gb/sec

[alexlindsay @alexlindsay]

@ryanfoxeth Some people just have it… but the rumor is, Jobs worked very hard on preparation.

Arguably the best corporate presenter today is @Benioff … and I guarantee he didn’t get that good by winging it.

[alexlindsay @alexlindsay]

Here’s a hard fact to accept for many…

Unless you are top .001% at speaking, you should ever try to talk more than 5-8 min straight in public.

People can train you to top 1% in weeks… the rest is flight hours and self examination.

Many event producers need to hear this.

[alexlindsay @alexlindsay]

@HippyMomPhD In the practical world, this would be presentations.

The most value application in my tool chest is Apple’s Keynote.

Teachers would have to learn slide presentation skills to teach them. The decks I see from most of my kids’ teachers break every rule… not in a good way.

[alexlindsay @alexlindsay]

@lonseidman @CBSNews Because they know what most of us can guess… OTA is fading away. Encryption will just hasten it.

[alexlindsay @alexlindsay]

@michaelq Not sure. I do that often in Airtable. But I don’t know how to do that elsewhere

[alexlindsay @alexlindsay]

@SteveHullfish @Alex4D @teachthemx3 I have 2 kids in High School. The variance in teachers is amazingly bad. Anything would be better.

[alexlindsay @alexlindsay]

@SteveHullfish @Alex4D @teachthemx3 Do we really think they are doing a good job now? How relevant do we think most college is today? I can't remember the last time I knew IF a hire had gone to college.

The NFL/MLB are much better and developing talent than colleges. That's the model I've used most of my career.

[alexlindsay @alexlindsay]

@BKMeditor @Alex4D @SteveHullfish @teachthemx3 What's coming is an idea that is fleshed out into a book they can read (at a defined and dynamic challenge level) and tested on minutes later.

[alexlindsay @alexlindsay]

For the most important skills, Basic Math and Reading... I think measurement can be fairly straightforward. For basic math - recall speed is incredibly important (for 95% of the world... THE most important). Being able to do fast math in your head is a super power. This can be tested very effectively with a computer.

For reading... Reading out loud in younger ages and comprehension in later years can also be tested by AI now or very soon.

For more advanced topics... I guess whatever the teacher wants to do. The obsession with the measure itself distorts the process.

The most useful measure, if there is one, is presentation. It forces the student to recall and work with the knoweldge in real time. Some will argue that not all kids are good at this...

A) Not all kids are good at writing either. Yet here we are.

B) Presenting and slide decks are 10x more important after school than writing papers. I have literally moved 10s of $millions with Keynote. It's my most useful skill.

For technical skills, we usually just start people with small jobs and see how they progress. More companies need farm teams.

[alexlindsay @alexlindsay]

As a former employer... there is no piece of paper that has any significant impact on my measure of a prospect.

99% of everyone I've hired for freelance or FTE over the last 20 years started as a PA, were recommendations, or I met through through development programs (That I created, to find people to hire... Pixel Corps and Office Hours). In past 25 years, I've hired well over 500 FTEs or Freelancers.

Certificates are worthless because skills are 20% of the job. In most cases, we have to "unlearn" graduates because instructors with no/old experience gave them notions that are not workable. Those graduates did, however, get good grades.

[alexlindsay @alexlindsay]

@teachthemx3 @SteveHullfish @Alex4D A great start.

[alexlindsay @alexlindsay]

Yes, the tech is getting crazy. I was talking to one startup… they are building a tool to allow kids to tell a basic story to AI, it then builds a full book (with illustrations, at correct lexile score)… then has them read it out loud and create a customized test from the book it just wrote… and tracks achievement.

[alexlindsay @alexlindsay]

Learning is much faster when it’s not slowed by the classroom process. This leaves plenty of time for other activities that can include other kids. Vitualizing the classroom doesn’t always mean staying at home.

We have to remember that public school “socialization” didn’t happen 100 years ago for most kids. They did alright (maybe better). For many, like me, this grand “socialization” was borderline traumatic.

As far as testing… I don’t know. My experience - testing mostly measures the ability to take tests. I think showing practical use of the knowledge is much more useful. Presentations with Q&A are great ways to test actually knowledge and… very hard to cheat with AI.

[alexlindsay @alexlindsay]

So good

[Klara @klara_sjo]

The more you know.

[alexlindsay @alexlindsay]

Way easier to establish provenance of real videos. Many people are working on this.

[Le'Veon Bell @LeVeonBell]

raise your hand if you think Al videos should be labeled on social media 🙋🏾‍♂️

[alexlindsay @alexlindsay]

For Tesla Owners...

Go to toy box. Select Christmas (or Santa?)

Once opened, press the microphone and say “Ho Ho Ho not funny”

It actual IS funny. :)

[alexlindsay @alexlindsay]

Grades (K-12 AND A-F) are vestiges of the tech starved, local-education past. As schools virtualize over the next 10 years, students will be in the class that makes the most sense for their level of competency at all times. That class may change but they will, slow or advanced, be near educational optimum pressure. When we get rid of the limits of the physical classroom, we can organize students by ability and skill at each moment. Large plenaries (what we do in Office Hours) mixed with AI and projects adapt constantly. Public schools won’t do this, of course… but when the cost of private online schools (think Alpha School) drop below 2x ESA/Voucher… the system will reach critical mass and there will be nothing to stop the chain reaction.

[alexlindsay @alexlindsay]

@burnera43918259 @teachthemx3 My memory was that we ended up in different friend groups... but knew each other and definitely worked together in class assignments when allowed to just because it was easier...we moved way faster.

While I was not very social in grade school, most of my friends were from GATE.