Golan Tsdaff

[Golan Tsdaff @Golan_TJ]

Grab our exam survival guide:
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[Golan Tsdaff @Golan_TJ]

Don't ask for the answer.
Ask what to try first.

#betterlearning

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Share your portfolio here:
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We'll get back to you if it's a fit.

LinkedIn post:
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Hiring a freelance video editor at Yeda 🎬

SIDE GIG: 15–30 short-form talking-head clips/month. The workflow: We do the rough edit, you handle the final polish (pacing & captions). The pay: €15–€20 per finished clip.
Remote. No story-mining.
Link in first comment.

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More income at home. Higher expectations for the kids.

It's a repeated finding: parents with more income and more education tend to have higher academic expectations for their child.

Do such expectations become self-fulfilling prophecies? Or a realistic read of reality?

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One step closer to finally figuring out what 'X' actually equals 🔬
Learning is supposed to be fun, just like @efteling , and we're here to prove it!
Reach out to book a trial lesson and see how much your teen can enjoy the process.

#efteling
#mathfun
#yeda

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@flowidealism I work mostly with ages 14-18.
Some were great, some lacked determination. Well, we can’t expect uniform results. I do see great value in the Montessori approach.

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Effects of family socioeconomic status on the self-expectations of children under grandparenting in China" (CFPS data, PMC)

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Less money at home. Students having higher expectations of themselves. Kinda backwards from what we're used to in the West.

But a study in China found exactly that: kids from lower income homes expect more from themselves, academically.

Loved discovering this one.

*source in first comment

[Golan Tsdaff @Golan_TJ]

1986: Protesting calculators because they “make minds lazy.”
How do you think AI is affecting learning?

New technologies arrive with new fears. Some justified, some less.
My #1 rule for using AI is the same rule for learning with a teacher: Keep the heavy lifting to yourself.
When someone/something helps you too much, you don't grow your muscles.

(Image generated by AI. Excuse the irony.)

Follow for more.

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Are smartphones and social media the culprits?

Whatever it is, small steps of focus training bring big gains. Spice it up with some accountability for best results!

Report by the excellent @TheEconomist .

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@BillAckman Should Betty Rosa really be ashamed?
I fully agree with Bill’s point. Yet this does not mean she has malevolent motives. releasing such data rewards achievement but could also hinder challenged schools from improving.

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I have learned a lot from my students over the years.
Here is one of my favorite quotes from a student.

Does your teen show up at the last minute for lessons?
For 1:1 sessions, a short “I’m waiting for you” message from the teacher can go a long way.

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"He loves his teacher. He finds the lessons fun."

That student failed at the next exam.

Lessons should absolutely not be boring. They must be interactive, engaging, intriguing, fulfilling. Fun, too, but not instead of real learning.

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@FixingEducation Probably true but looking only at averages doesn’t show the whole picture.
I’d suspect that a good portion of the most brilliant pupils are still “made in the USA”

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@YvesMulkers Yet it has to be used with caution to support good learning

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Last day to apply!
Junior Developer, Gamified Learning Products (Contract)

Yeda is a premium 1:1 online math tutoring company for teens. Every student has their own board where their work lives. We're turning that board into something they actually want to open: upload a photo of the problem you just worked through, get a response, earn something for it, show it off.
Streaks, rewards, recognition, a practice timer that pays off. The mechanics you already know from the apps on your phone, applied to a fifteen year old finally getting a topic they thought they were bad at.
We're a small team. No office, no bureaucracy, and you'll see what you build land with real students within weeks.

What you'll build
Small, scoped features on top of the tools we already run (Miro boards, https://t.co/0Qr7Iv6ZF1): photo upload, achievements, progression, timers. We write the specs. You build it well and tell us when we've specified something that won't feel good to use.

Background & skills
Junior level (0-2 years professional, or strong personal and side projects)
Comfortable writing, testing, and maintaining scripts independently
API integration experience: documented REST APIs, JSON, basic auth
Comfortable in an IDE, using GitHub
Able to work from a written spec without needing everything re-explained

Nice to have
You've built something with points, levels, streaks, or rewards in it, at any scale, including for fun
Basic CI/CD familiarity (GitHub Actions or similar)

Worth knowing
This is web and API work inside existing tools, not game-engine development. If your background is Unity or Unreal, the game instincts are welcome, but the day-to-day is integrations and scripts.
Specs come from us. We're not asking you to own product direction, but we do want your instinct on what makes a mechanic land, and we'll ask for it.
Structure
Contract, project-based. Short paid test task first: a small scoped build, plus one mechanic you'd propose and why. Longer engagement after that.

Location & pay
Remote, Serbia-based. $15-22/hr.

Apply here: https://t.co/qZIViisZtk

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@NicholasFerroni @nypost They blame the unions, not the teachers themselves, there’s a difference.
I otherwise agree with your overall point. Student agency is important.

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@FixingEducation Where do you get this data?
Context matters. Where, what age, what type of teacher jobs etc