Mike Tikh - edu/acc

📈 Equities trader turned 👨‍💻 software engineer. Now fixing 📚 education. @Superbuilders | @gauntletai C3

[Mike Tikh - edu/acc @miketikh]

@PSkinnerTech Just give everyone food, then they're no longer hungry. Done.

[Mike Tikh - edu/acc @miketikh]

@gtmom *Find 5 terrible quality textbooks, or poorly written children's books

Article: "Studies show books are bad for knowledge!"

[Mike Tikh - edu/acc @miketikh]

@SenSanders It's not either/or. The best solution for students AND teachers is both.

Teachers can't personalize lessons and pace to individual students. AI can't replace the human element.

Tech for lessons/exercises, with teachers helping guide and motivate, makes everyone better off.

[Mike Tikh - edu/acc @miketikh]

@griswold When we last checked, many did parts well (curriculum design, assessments), but none were set up to be a standalone, student-guided app with dynamic assignments and AI grading.

Much has changed in the last year though, so worth reevaluating. Will post updates!

[Mike Tikh - edu/acc @miketikh]

Writing has to be the most overlooked skill in schools today.

It gets ignored because:
- It’s harder to grade and test
- It’s hard to separate from content

But at its core, how you write is how you think. It’s critical for communication and understanding.

We need to fix this.

[Mike Tikh - edu/acc @miketikh]

Great idea, but gamification for edtech is the easy part. Delivering real learning outcomes is hard.

Duolingo couldn't even get language right and that's its only focus. This would have to do better, for every subject type, on the fly.

Good luck, let's see how this progresses.

[Cheng-Wei Hu @HcwXd]

I left NotebookLM a few months ago to solve a bigger problem in learning.

Today, as the first step, we are launching @WonderingApp for early access.

It's Duolingo for anything — turning any topic into a guided path with bite-size visual lessons that can fit into your busy schedule.

But you don't sacrifice depth/effectiveness for convenience:

Total Control: You decide how deep you want to go, how difficult the material should be, and how personalized the experience feels.

Active Learning: We provide the tools you need to practice, test your understanding, and actually apply what you’ve learned.

Long-term Mastery: It’s built to help you truly remember and master any subject, not just skim the surface.

[Mike Tikh - edu/acc @miketikh]

@GergelyOrosz Can't understand why the UI/UX is still so poor and hasn't changed much in these multi billion dollar chat apps.

The closest ChatGPT has to organizing topics is still Projects, which are basically useless. Haven't even bothered to allow threads inside chats...

[Mike Tikh - edu/acc @miketikh]

Claude: I’ve solved coding
ChatGPT: I can do phd physics
Siri: I see you have a haircut coming up, do you want a link to call in?

[Mike Tikh - edu/acc @miketikh]

@redaction Writing is a fun one to try this for.

- Math, you have clear progressions from base skills to compound ones
- Writing, gaps could be due to grammar, vocab, reading comprehension, rhetorical tools, reasoning, etc

Worthwhile endeavor, and we're doing it, but it's tricky.

[Mike Tikh - edu/acc @miketikh]

Odd how hard it is for critics on here to grasp that "not all screen time for kids is equal."

- Watching "educational" Youtube Shorts - bad
- Unstructured iPad time in class on apps - bad
- A structured curriculum, supervised by guides = efficient personalized learning

[Mike Tikh - edu/acc @miketikh]

@nosilverv Very unexpected - a guy constantly pushing for trying to help the largest number of people actually cares about people irl?

[Mike Tikh - edu/acc @miketikh]

@KellyClaudeAI @KellyClaudeAI , I saw this video: https://t.co/vdiQrh3OK3 on using DNA results from services like 23andme and cross referencing them with sources to further personalize recommendations (ie. you metabolize _ poorly).

Is this something you think would be valuable to add?

[Mike Tikh - edu/acc @miketikh]

@adamboxer1 Time will tell, but hopefully that's a losing bet.

They're already launching the platform for home schooling using vouchers, which will make it much more accessible than the private schools.

Those of us building apps for them truly believe this is just the start.

[Mike Tikh - edu/acc @miketikh]

The fun part about building apps for students is that your clients are all hackers.

"Okay, made the lesson!

... Now what's every way they're going to try to pass this without actually learning? 🤔"

[Mike Tikh - edu/acc @miketikh]

AI isn’t wiping out every software job equally.
Edtech, for example.

- Anyone can spin up a “gamified learning app.”
- Very few can design one that actually drives mastery.

Good outcomes require real instructional expertise and judgment.

That's what we're working on.

[Nils @nilslang]

https://t.co/MmolF4lbSU

[Mike Tikh - edu/acc @miketikh]

@adam__isom @OriginalStacia very cool! And does look similar to the concept we'd talked about. I'll definitely have to try this out

[Mike Tikh - edu/acc @miketikh]

@roger_jgs404040 Supposedly anthropic is banning accounts that use their max token to power OpenClaw. The workaround would be getting your AP-key powered "brain" to use Claude Code for tasks.

But agreed, the engine definitely isn't running smoothly.

[Mike Tikh - edu/acc @miketikh]

Finally got OpenClaw running smoothly. Ask it to make a dashboard and it succeeded... in burning $50 worth of tokens.

It's been fun, I'm going back to the Claude Code Max plan. Y'all enjoy refining this one, I'll check up on it again in a month.

[Mike Tikh - edu/acc @miketikh]

@MrZachG Didn't take long to see that:

- AI without learning science != effective outcomes
- Effectively incorporating those is hard, and AI is far from being able to do that on its own

Education isn't solved yet, but we're working on it.