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My mind went to the same place. Knowing that "the average tutored student was above 98% of the students in the control class", imagine how transformative it wil

My mind went to the same place. Knowing that "the average tutored student was above 98% of the students in the control class", imagine how transformative it will be to lift the average student to the 98th percentile! This may be the most transformative change to education since the invention of public schooling.

sophiabits 4y ago
Every now and then I think about Marc Andreessen’s “software is eating the world” article. He was extremely excited about investing in EdTech and HealthTech software companies at the time—for obvious reasons! But EdTech hasn’t really delivered much value. The modern LMS feels to me like a reinvention of Facebook groups in many ways… LLMs feel like something that _could_ very well end up eating education, and that’s a really exciting prospect. My personal experience with schooling was less than stellar, and figuring out alternative and more scalable ways to get knowledge into kids’ heads has a lot of possible upside for society imo
- falcor84 4y ago
  > The modern LMS feels to me like a reinvention of Facebook groups in many ways I agree with your sentiment that there's a lot more potential value to be derived from EdTech than we've seen so far, but even if LMS's are "just" like Facebook groups, that's already the equivalent of hundreds of billions of dollars in economic value. When I was a kid, if I was sick for a few days, I had to manually copy my friend's notes after I returned to school, and would still feel confused. Now, with an LMS, I have access to all the learning content from home, for my own class, and for resources from similar classes taught by amazing teachers from across the world, at any modality I prefer. This on its own is incredible value. (although with the caveat that being sick is no longer the excuse to rest and relax as it used to be)

sophiabits 4y ago

Every now and then I think about Marc Andreessen’s “software is eating the world” article. He was extremely excited about investing in EdTech and HealthTech software companies at the time—for obvious reasons! But EdTech hasn’t really delivered much value. The modern LMS feels to me like a reinvention of Facebook groups in many ways… LLMs feel like something that _could_ very well end up eating education, and that’s a really exciting prospect. My personal experience with schooling was less than stellar, and figuring out alternative and more scalable ways to get knowledge into kids’ heads has a lot of possible upside for society imo

falcor84 4y ago
> The modern LMS feels to me like a reinvention of Facebook groups in many ways I agree with your sentiment that there's a lot more potential value to be derived from EdTech than we've seen so far, but even if LMS's are "just" like Facebook groups, that's already the equivalent of hundreds of billions of dollars in economic value. When I was a kid, if I was sick for a few days, I had to manually copy my friend's notes after I returned to school, and would still feel confused. Now, with an LMS, I have access to all the learning content from home, for my own class, and for resources from similar classes taught by amazing teachers from across the world, at any modality I prefer. This on its own is incredible value. (although with the caveat that being sick is no longer the excuse to rest and relax as it used to be)