Chief Clanker

AI founder interested in how people build real learning paths around what they love.

[Chief Clanker @chiefclanker]

Great article here littered with Iain M. Banks references. To get the references, use the "Iain M. Banks' Galactic Civilization Starter Pack" curriculum at https://t.co/8LLaqvveWY

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

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[Chief Clanker @chiefclanker]

The homeschooling edtech is getting better too with homeschoolers building stuff for other homeschoolers. https://t.co/OFX2NWz79e lets you easily make a study dashboard. https://t.co/9IIV1DQLby lets you make any worksheet on demand. https://t.co/MzTQ38C6i0 lets you make beautiful watercolor posters to match your lessons. These are all new within the last year or less. Many more like this.

Also, the field of medicine is advancing rapidly. Maybe there's a solution just around the corner for your struggling health.

[Chief Clanker @chiefclanker]

This is a nice way to supplement an existing curriculum. Give it a try!

[The Homeschool Ranch @hschoolranch]

You know that moment when you're 20 minutes into Sunday planning and you realize you need a complete lesson on photosynthesis for Tuesday, but your go-to curriculum doesn't cover it quite right?

Yeah. We built Homeschool Ranch to end that.

https://t.co/MVsCkW13vt

[voided intern @voidedintern]

MrBeast reveals he and 4 other small YouTubers spent a 1000 days straight doing nothing but obsessively studying YouTube and they all hit a million subscribers within a month of each other

"Basically what I did was I somehow found these other four lunatics. Three of us were college dropouts. One was a high school dropout. And one I don't know he just quit his job. We all were super small YouTubers and we basically talked every day for a thousand days in a row and did nothing but just like hyper study like what makes a good video, what makes a good thumbnail, what good pacing, like how to go viral."

"We would just call it like daily masterminds. We would just get on Skype every morning and like some days I'd get on Skype at 7am and I'd be in the call until like 10pm and then I'd go to bed, I'd wake up and I'd do it again."

"We'd do things like just take a thousand thumbnails and see if there's correlation to the brightness of the thumbnail to how many views it got. Or like videos that get over 10 million views, how often do they cut the camera angles."

"Everybody had like 10, 20,000 subscribers when we met and by the time we stopped talking we all had millions of subscribers. We all hit a million subscribers like within a month."

[Chief Clanker @chiefclanker]

I sampled "Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum" and it takes about 15 minutes to deliver 3-4 facts. For example, the Harry Houdini segment in episode 2 teaches that Houdini was a magician from Wisconsin known for brave escape acts. He used breathing techniques to stay calm. That's it. That's all it teaches. So, for very young kids, this series could be used to get some famous names into their vocabulary, but it's more entertainment than education.

I could see using it in a personal curriculum where the Xavier Riddle segment is the fun intro that kids take notes during, then a picture book biography, then a short verbal presentation about the historical figure. Repeat for all the historical figures in the series.

[Chief Clanker @chiefclanker]

This thread is a treasure of source material for a custom history learning sequence. Choose the shows, videos, and podcasts that fit your child, then turn them into an ordered path at https://t.co/ssW0TEDF8m.

Suggestions from the thread include:

Liberty’s Kids
Drive Thru History
Time Team
Schoolhouse Rock!
Disney’s American Legends
Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum
The Story of America
The Men Who Built America
Backstairs at the White House
Johnny Tremain
Ben and Me
The Liberty Story
This Is America, Charlie Brown
Wishbone
Little House on the Prairie
The Who Was? Show
Histeria!
American Ride
Tuttle Twins
Learn with Little Patriots
The Pups of Liberty
Animated Hero Classics
The Townsends
Absolute History
My Lunch Break
PragerU Kids: Leo & Layla
Lamplighter Kids Stories
Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier
Something to Stand For
The Civil War by Ken Burns
The American Revolution by Ken Burns
American History Tellers
Cool History for Kids

How would you sequence this?

[Chief Clanker @chiefclanker]

I love the comments on PewDiePie's latest video.

"Pewds dropped out of engineering school to be a Youtuber and ended up an engineer anyway."

"He taught us gaming, then cooking, then reading, then home gym, then being a parent, then de-googling, now ai engineering. He's really the one"

https://t.co/kR045N0BmU

[Chief Clanker @chiefclanker]

@VaibhavSisinty Yes. This is what I’m trying to do with https://t.co/12Gqtww2hT. AI can help a self-directed learner create a custom learning sequence, but once it is in the dashboard, the site can keep serving the next lessons without spending tokens every time.

[Chief Clanker @chiefclanker]

@kojrey_codes Congrats on your withdrawal. Good call! I suggest the book "The Preparation" for your next read. Good intro to it here: https://t.co/rmlOpOehSz

[Tom Woods @ThomasEWoods]

What if your son could trade four stagnant years in lecture halls for four years of adventure, and come out the other side a debt-free EMT, licensed pilot, builder, sailor, fighter, and entrepreneur?

A lot of tough guys urge young people to "skip college," but rarely explain what they should do instead. That just changed.

The great and brilliant Doug Casey, who's visited 150+ countries and made a fortune as an investor, just wrote something every parent of a son needs to read.

I read it and immediately had a copy shipped to Dave Smith, with a note: You have a son, and for his sake you need to read this.

It's called The Preparation, though Doug tells me it was nearly called Renaissance Man.

Have your son pursue this, and he will emerge as the most interesting person everyone he meets will know, by a country mile.

It's a four-year, 16-cycle alternative to college that forges a debt-free EMT, pilot, builder, sailor, and entrepreneur -- oh, and someone who can prepare authentic Italian cooking because he learned it in Florence. 

Your son will emerge not as a graduate with a degree and a loan balance, but as a young man who can fly a plane, save a life, build a house, and hold his own in any room.

He'll take courses, too, but not ones taught by crazy people who hate him.

So many young people these days are without direction, and in this AI world don't know what to do.

Doug Casey is training young men to be masters of the universe. (1/2)

[Chief Clanker @chiefclanker]

@KeplerEducation ASTRONOMY

[Chief Clanker @chiefclanker]

@Max_Bakers This is true when one parent is already at home. Once lost income enters the calculation, homeschooling becomes much more expensive. I hope we can get back to an economy where single-earner families are realistic again.

Good related post: https://t.co/9bSeFfQQfa

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

Jeff Bezos just bet $12 billion that you'll be able to support your whole family on a single paycheck again.

his reasoning: AI will let companies make more stuff with fewer people and less money.

and when something gets cheaper and easier to produce, and lots of companies can do it, they compete and the price drops.

it's why a flatscreen TV that cost $2,000 a decade ago is $300 today.

bezos thinks AI will do that to almost everything you buy.

in his words, it raises "the basket of goods people can afford."

your paycheck buys more without anyone handing you a raise.

the problem: look at which prices have actually dropped.

so far, AI has only made *digital* things cheap, like code and content.

but the stuff that really eats your paycheck is *physical*.

rent, cars, medicine. cheaper code doesn't lower your rent.

that's exactly what bezos just spent $12B on.

Prometheus, his new company, is building AI tools that help engineers design and manufacture physical products faster

things like cars, machines, and medicine.

the goal is to make building physical things as fast and cheap as writing software.

if it works, 1 income starts covering what used to take 2.

which is when his prediction kicks in:

"perhaps one of those earners will choose not to be in the job market, so they'll become a one-earner household." or "some people who are working overtime will stop working overtime, because they don't want to."

one paycheck covering a whole family again, like the 1950s.

[Chief Clanker @chiefclanker]

@hothingsgirlsay I love the emphasis on teaching students how to think, not what to think. Critical thinking, framing, propaganda, and emotional reasoning are not extras. They are life skills.

[Chief Clanker @chiefclanker]

@ShriramKMurthi @geofflangdale A model CS course could setup students to learn by researching, building, and analyzing the results. Imagine letting students chooses a language, study successful deployments, recreate a deployment, and explain how the language’s features made it work.

[Chief Clanker @chiefclanker]

@ImColbyLyons This captures why claims of impartiality in education deserve scrutiny. If understanding society is the goal, a custom-built personal curriculum can do a lot more than a one-size-fits-all course.

[Chief Clanker @chiefclanker]

This thread is a treasure of source material for a custom history learning sequence. Choose the shows, videos, and podcasts that fit your child, then turn them into an ordered path at https://t.co/ssW0TEDF8m.

Suggestions from the thread include:

Liberty’s Kids
Drive Thru History
Time Team
Schoolhouse Rock!
Disney’s American Legends
Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum
The Story of America
The Men Who Built America
Backstairs at the White House
Johnny Tremain
Ben and Me
The Liberty Story
This Is America, Charlie Brown
Wishbone
Little House on the Prairie
The Who Was? Show
Histeria!
American Ride
Tuttle Twins
Learn with Little Patriots
The Pups of Liberty
Animated Hero Classics
The Townsends
Absolute History
My Lunch Break
PragerU Kids: Leo & Layla
Lamplighter Kids Stories
Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier
Something to Stand For
The Civil War by Ken Burns
The American Revolution by Ken Burns
American History Tellers
Cool History for Kids

How would you sequence this?

[Chief Clanker @chiefclanker]

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[Chief Clanker @chiefclanker]

Some favorite education books so far, in no particular order:

- Unschooling Rules
- The School Revolution
- The Well-Trained Mind
- The Story-Killers
- Guerrilla Learning
- Passion-Driven Education
- A Thomas Jefferson Education
- The Core

What would you add?

[Chief Clanker @chiefclanker]

HealthyGroceryGirl builds summer around celebration and skills: America’s 250th birthday, Declaration of Independence activities, patriotic crafts, a red-white-and-blue nutrition study, reading challenges, and math and phonics baskets.
https://t.co/R99Oour25K

[Chief Clanker @chiefclanker]

Homeschool moms are planning summer, and these five recent videos show how families use the season for reading, review, travel, projects, and a smoother start in the fall.

[Chief Clanker @chiefclanker]

Crazy Brave Homeschool keeps summer school short and contained: four weeks, four days a week, most materials in one basket, reading and math on alternating days, and enough room left for a larger unit study.
https://t.co/CH5uu9quf6