What podcasts say about Joe Liemandt
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What Joe Liemandt has said on podcasts
29 statements · 23 positive · 4 negative · 1 mixed · 1 neutral
Education will change radically within five to ten years.
“How we educate kids is gonna be radically different in 5 years and 10 years than the last 50 and 100 years.”
Open the episode · How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe LiemandtListen at 5:09
Motivation accounts for most learning effectiveness.
“We believe motivation is 90% of learning these days.”
Open the episode · How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe LiemandtListen at 12:43
Most Alpha School students report loving school.
“90-some percent of our students, we survey them, right, say, I love school.”
Open the episode · How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe LiemandtListen at 15:34
Children need opportunities to undertake difficult tasks.
“Kids want to do hard things. Kids have to do hard things”
Open the episode · How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe LiemandtListen at 16:10
High standards improve children's happiness.
“the key to your child's happiness is high standards.”
Open the episode · How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe LiemandtListen at 16:45
Supported struggle and failure are central to child development.
“Child development experts will sit and explain The key to developing a child is that they struggle and fail on their road to success, supported by a caring adult.”
Open the episode · How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe LiemandtListen at 19:27
One-to-one tutoring and mentorship are the best educational models.
“individualized tutoring, think back Plato and Socrates, Aristotle, Alexander the Great. Individualized tutoring is the best model. A one-on-one model is the best model. A mentorship model, an apprentice mentor, that is the best model.”
Open the episode · How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe LiemandtListen at 28:21
Homeschooling outcomes vary sharply with academic standards.
“Homeschooling is totally bimodal, which is, are they homeschooling them for high standards or not?”
Open the episode · How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe LiemandtListen at 29:09
AI tutors can provide mastery-level personalized lessons and accelerate learning tenfold.
“And now with AI tutors at cost-effectively, you can give every kid perfectly tailored lessons at their level for them at a mastery level. And that is the magic that then allows kids to learn 10 times faster.”
Open the episode · How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe LiemandtListen at 31:05
Alpha students learned over twice as much in 121 daily app minutes.
“The average kid spent 121 minutes last year in the apps and learned more than 2x they— what they would've in sitting in class for 6 and doing homework.”
Open the episode · How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe LiemandtListen at 31:39
Chatbots used in standard schools mostly enable cheating.
“If you take a chatbot and put it into a standard school, 90% of the kids use it to cheat.”
Open the episode · How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe LiemandtListen at 32:27
AI-generated learning data enables five- to tenfold educational improvements.
“That magical data loop is what's allowing us to get the 5 to 10 times improvements in education because it's our microscope, it's our telescope.”
Open the episode · How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe LiemandtListen at 45:03
Worked examples with fading scaffolds teach faster than unsupported problem solving.
“The better way to learn, the faster way to learn, is to give them a worked example where you show them, and then you progressively remove the parts of the example where they're having to progressively go up, and then by the end they can solve the problem with no scaffolding.”
Open the episode · How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe LiemandtListen at 47:38
Memorizing multiplication tables raised one student's math SAT score from 710 to 790.
“So she went back, memorized her multiplication tables, and she got a 790 on that SAT.”
Open the episode · How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe LiemandtListen at 55:08
Alpha aims to make 100,000 students academically MIT-eligible by middle school.
“Our goal is to get these 100,000 kids academically MIT eligible by middle school.”
Open the episode · How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe LiemandtListen at 59:55
Advancing students without foundational mastery slows later learning.
“if you don't have the foundation and you just keep pushing kids higher, that's— the learning curves in this country slow down.”
Open the episode · How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe LiemandtListen at 1:02:04
Incoming Alpha students averaged 2.2 grade levels below expected achievement.
“The average student, when they transferred into Alpha and took our assessment test, were 2.2 grade levels behind.”
Open the episode · How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe LiemandtListen at 1:03:52
Alpha students can complete one subject grade level in 20–30 hours.
“Our average student can do an entire grade level, one subject, between 20 and 30 hours in K through 8.”
Open the episode · How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe LiemandtListen at 1:04:32
Schools should be evaluated by student growth rates, not achievement levels alone.
“You should measure a school based on the rate of learning and the slope of the line, the growth rate, not its achievement.”
Open the episode · How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe LiemandtListen at 1:11:36
Alpha offers students $1,000 for reaching the top one percent academically.
“We'll give you $1,000 to get to top 1%.”
Open the episode · How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe LiemandtListen at 1:15:17
Average public-school spending is $20,000 per student annually.
“the average public school spends $20,000 per kid per year.”
Open the episode · How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe LiemandtListen at 1:19:59
Founder School guarantees tuition refunds if students fail to earn $1 million profit.
“You'll start a business, earn $1 million of profit, or you get all your tuition back.”
Open the episode · How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe LiemandtListen at 1:32:27
Alpha's top-percentile students reportedly learn twice as much in two hours.
“our top 1 percentile kids are learning twice as much in only 2 hours day as other top 1 percentile kids are learning all day”
Open the episode · How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe LiemandtListen at 2:11:03
Family income is the strongest predictor of student test scores.
“the single biggest indicator of your performance is your family income. You can predict somebody's test scores basically off of that.”
Open the episode · How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe LiemandtListen at 2:11:44
Students can learn when instruction matches their current level.
“If I give you a lesson that's at your level, you can learn it.”
Open the episode · How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe LiemandtListen at 2:13:52
Peer demonstrations are the strongest motivator of students' perceived capability.
“the number one thing that convinces kids they can do something is watching their classmate do it.”
Open the episode · How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe LiemandtListen at 2:17:55
Lower-income Sports Academy students will receive Alpha academics and learn twice as much in two hours.
“These are all families who are under $65,000 income, and their kids love sports. Those kids are going to be on the same academic system at Alpha super high-end private school, and they will be learning 2x in 2 hours.”
Open the episode · How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe LiemandtListen at 2:22:47
Alpha's learning system will be deployed in public schools.
“there will be public schools where this is released, where if you're in those public schools in the 2 hours, you will be on the Alpha system”
Open the episode · How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe LiemandtListen at 2:23:28
A free educational game will eventually let American children learn at elite-private-school speed.
“any kid in America after school is going to be able to use this and learn as fast as if you were in the best private school in the country.”
Open the episode · How to Accelerate Learning & Improve Education | Joe LiemandtListen at 2:27:07
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