Karthik Chandrasekariah

CTO @zinclearning
@[email protected]

[Karthik Chandrasekariah @karthikc]

I'm coding again, so I'm blogging again.

I started digging into Ruby profilers and got overwhelmed by all the options out there. Once I got a sense of the landscape, I decided to write about it - https://t.co/JRPoswdEYG.

Hope this is useful!

[Karthik Chandrasekariah @karthikc]

Are any of you English teachers or know someone who is? These mini lessons are incredible!

[Zinc Learning Labs @ZincLearning]

Join the reading revolution with Zinc’s FREE resources. Mini-lessons bring Zinc’s four discrete reading skills to life for students and can be applied to any text you’re reading in class. Check them out today! https://t.co/qOegPFj93V
#lovetoread #elaresources #teacherresources

[Karthik Chandrasekariah @karthikc]

Love all the great apps and writing by @goodenoughllc and @bjhess. It truly is one of the good parts of the internet!

[Karthik Chandrasekariah @karthikc]

so, how long before we have "paste without formatting but with links"?

[Zinc Learning Labs @ZincLearning]

Did you know?
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Interested in learning more? Click here: https://t.co/iGTPqBeTT9

[Karthik Chandrasekariah @karthikc]

Couldn’t agree more!

We switched from “estimates” to “appetite” two years ago and haven’t looked back. https://t.co/ZErpicXCIr

#shapeup

[Sidu Ponnappa @ponnappa]

We're extremely bad at estimation, and routinely overcommit and undeliver.

This cannot be fixed, only worked around.

[Karthik Chandrasekariah @karthikc]

❤️❤️

[Sukhada @appadappajappa]

Sometimes it’s so hard to believe we live in a society where increasingly, the sole source of authority is wealth.

[Karthik Chandrasekariah @karthikc]

😎

[Karthik Chandrasekariah @karthikc]

I wonder if this was just my experience though? Did anyone have teachers that gave you good techniques to deal with higher level text?

Being able to read books at higher levels requires a different set of skills and the best part is that it's totally teachable.

[Karthik Chandrasekariah @karthikc]

Were you taught reading in high school?

Growing up in Bangalore, English class was mostly about the teacher reading the text aloud and explaining parts that they felt were difficult to understand. They gave us almost no instruction on how we could become better readers!

[Zinc Learning Labs @ZincLearning]

There are many ways to improve the K-12 reading crisis. Here's one of them: start literacy instruction earlier and continue it later. Read more on this strategy in Zinc's founder @MattBardin's op-ed in @hechingerreport #literacy #k12 https://t.co/BaH2XuDAai

[Gail Cornwall @gailcornwall]

“Teachers need to create environments where they model the normalcy of struggling with sounding out big words & instruct kids on how to do so successfully” well after the early grades. One gem of many from @MattBardin of @ZincLearning for @hechingerreport https://t.co/SHwrKMRU9Z

[Kent Beck 🌻 @KentBeck]

What's the alternative? Start by observing the rate of change in the world. If stuff changes once a week, tune the software development system to handle that rate of change. If stuff changes once a day, tune for that.

[Karthik Chandrasekariah @karthikc]

+1

@amodm articulating the difference between concepts and frameworks reminded me of this great article by @b0rk - https://t.co/Ej6XsQnONg

[Yogi @YogiKulkarni]

This is a must-watch. Lots of insights... diving deep, focusing on fundamental ideas, and characterizing systems so that behaviour can be predicted.

Thanks @amodm for your generosity and @championswimmer for being a great host. You've set the benchmark for "talk geeky to me"😄.

[Zinc Learning Labs @ZincLearning]

Happy #TeacherAppreciationWeek! Dear teachers, THANK YOU for all that you do. Former teacher @ColetteXColeman, our Head of Strategy, wrote this @EdSurge article on the dos and don'ts of celebrating. Non-teachers, take note! (And then call your reps!) https://t.co/G4uKD0y90N

[Karthik Chandrasekariah @karthikc]

We spent more than 7 years iterating on one goal - Reading Growth. We’re finally there! ✌️🎉

[Zinc Learning Labs @ZincLearning]

Building Reading Ignition, we envisioned a tool that would give students the advanced literacy skills needed to grow dramatically as readers. Guess what? It worked! We're thrilled to share the College Board's efficacy study, which found just that. https://t.co/p9zVLSMpLW #edtech

[Karthik Chandrasekariah @karthikc]

@_mekin @erikphoel Looking ahead though, I believe the next big change will come from high quality teaching. Of course, this time around it has to be done at scale.
I think you're doing this awesomely at Udhyam! and we are on our way to doing this with reading at @ZincLearning too! 🤞🏽

[Karthik Chandrasekariah @karthikc]

@_mekin @erikphoel Great read! Thanks for sharing this @_mekin.
I completely agree with @erikphoel that the Internet and the information revolution didn't do much to improve education...

[Zinc Learning Labs @ZincLearning]

YESSS!!! This is exactly why we built Ignition. #edtech

[Karthik Chandrasekariah @karthikc]

@tdinkar If you’re willing to go one step further into budgeting, @ynab is awesome!

I last used it with Indian banks about 4 years ago and they did support auto import from the banks then. Not sure if they still do.