All Things Classroom

Making classrooms curious again. Thinking, experiments, math, science, stories, and simple ideas that make learning stick.

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Two kids. Same screen time.
Completely different outcomes.

The difference isn't the hours.
It's what their brain is doing during them.

Active vs passive.
Collaborative vs isolated.

This week's newsletter breaks it down 👇

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"A ladybug has no way to say sure, I'll be tested. But a human does."

One of our students. Unscripted.
Ethics Class. 🎙️

This is what happens when you give
students space to think. 👇

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@boardyai Making Education fun! https://t.co/0kHKTuTOtE

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What if students were the teachers?

One of our student just dropped a Minecraft beginner's guide that's clearer than most YouTube tutorials.🎙️

NYsKOOL KidCast - Episode 1.

More coming. 👀

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@boardyai Building All Things Classroom: https://t.co/0kHKTuTOtE

Making education easy and fun!

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@shreyaskoushik Loved the idea that frustration is not a bug in learning - it’s the feature. We’ve spent years removing struggle from education and accidentally removed growth with it :)

[Shreyas Koushik | K-12 EdTech @shreyaskoushik]

Most high-achieving students feel like nobodies the moment they graduate!

Not because they weren't smart. Not because they didn't work hard.

But because school optimized them for one thing: moving through a system efficiently.

And efficiency, it turns out, is not the same as learning.

I had one of the most honest education conversations I've had in a long time with @AaronSitze , Head of Learning and Experience at @synthesischool , alongside @TomoClub_edu co-founder @avinash_dtu .

A few things Aaron said that are worth thinking about:
👉🏻 Struggle is not a bug in learning. It's the whole point. When we remove frustration from the classroom, we remove the very mechanism that builds real capability.
👉🏻 Students are almost always more capable than the system gives them credit for. We've just built a system that never asks them to prove it.
👉🏻 Game-based learning works not because it's fun, but because it creates genuine emotional stakes. That's what traditional instruction rarely does.

And the AI point? It's the one that stayed with me the most.

Aaron draws a sharp line between AI making learning easier and AI making learning feel easier.

Those are not the same thing. And most of us in EdTech are not asking that question nearly enough.

This is a 60-minute conversation, and it earns every minute.

Give it a listen if you work in education, build learning products, or you're a parent wondering whether school is actually preparing your kid for anything beyond the next test.

Link in the comments!

So here's the question I'll leave you with:
If schools stopped measuring what's easy to measure, what would they actually be accountable for?

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Full story here: https://t.co/0fKwn5oBoP

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Here's a question that stumped 10,000 people. Including PhDs. Including professors. It's called the Monty Hall Problem. And it belongs in every classroom. 🧵

@storyteller_guy

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Try this in your next class:
1. Present the problem
2. Take a vote - switch or stay?
3. Show the math
Watch the room react It works every single time.

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So the next time a student says "when will I ever use math?" - Tell them about the man who saw beauty in a taxi number. While dying. In a hospital bed.

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Most students think math is boring. Here's a story that will change that forever. A dying man. A taxi. One number. 🧵

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Ramanujan said his goddess Namagiri Thayar of Namakkal, Tamil Nadu appeared in his dreams and gave him mathematical inspiration. Whether you believe that or not - What it tells us is this: Great learning doesn't always look like a classroom. It looks like obsession. Devotion.