What podcasts say about Niels Hoven
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What Niels Hoven has said on podcasts
53 statements · 35 positive · 9 negative · 3 mixed · 6 neutral
Mentava lets children learn at their individual capability rather than age-assigned pace.
“Mentava is software that is designed to let kids learn as fast as they're capable of learning instead of just at the pace assigned to their age.”
Open the episode · #882: How to Teach a 3-Year-Old to Read and Rethinking Education — Tim Coaches Niels Hoven of MentavaListen at 1:40
Mentava lets children learn at their capability rather than age-assigned pace.
“Mentava is software that is designed to let kids learn as fast as they're capable of learning instead of just at the pace assigned to their age.”
Open the episode · #882: Why Kids Can Learn 10x Faster Than We Think — Niels Hoven of Mentava (Tim Coaching Session)Listen at 1:40
Mentava’s early-literacy software can bring preschoolers to second-grade reading level.
“our early literacy software, which is designed for kids, preschoolers, as young as generally three to get to a second grade reading level.”
Open the episode · #882: How to Teach a 3-Year-Old to Read and Rethinking Education — Tim Coaches Niels Hoven of MentavaListen at 1:49
Mentava’s literacy software can bring preschoolers to second-grade reading level.
“our early literacy software, which is designed for kids, preschoolers, young as generally 2, 3 to get to a second-grade reading level”
Open the episode · #882: Why Kids Can Learn 10x Faster Than We Think — Niels Hoven of Mentava (Tim Coaching Session)Listen at 1:49
Two Mentava-using twins read early-reader books before turning three.
“We had a set of two-year-old twins who were reading Hop on Pop, Green Eggs and Ham. these early reader books before their third birthday.”
Open the episode · #882: How to Teach a 3-Year-Old to Read and Rethinking Education — Tim Coaches Niels Hoven of MentavaListen at 2:49
A three-year-old learned to read using Mentava in approximately three months.
“We had a three-year-old who learned to read in about three months.”
Open the episode · #882: How to Teach a 3-Year-Old to Read and Rethinking Education — Tim Coaches Niels Hoven of MentavaListen at 3:49
A three-year-old learned to read after using Mentava for about three months.
“We had a 3-year-old who learned to read in about 3 months.”
Open the episode · #882: Why Kids Can Learn 10x Faster Than We Think — Niels Hoven of Mentava (Tim Coaching Session)Listen at 3:49
Existing educational software is poorly designed for independent learning by preschoolers.
“the problem was in the design of the software. No one is designing software for 3- and 4-year-olds to be learning on their own.”
Open the episode · #882: Why Kids Can Learn 10x Faster Than We Think — Niels Hoven of Mentava (Tim Coaching Session)Listen at 8:07
Independent learning software for three- and four-year-olds is difficult to design.
“No one is designing software for three and four-year-olds to be learning on their own. It's not that it's impossible. It's just that it's really, really hard.”
Open the episode · #882: How to Teach a 3-Year-Old to Read and Rethinking Education — Tim Coaches Niels Hoven of MentavaListen at 8:09
Reading and math instruction are essentially solved problems.
“Reading and math are both basically solved problems.”
Open the episode · #882: How to Teach a 3-Year-Old to Read and Rethinking Education — Tim Coaches Niels Hoven of MentavaListen at 8:55
Teaching reading and math are essentially solved educational problems.
“reading and math are both basically solved problems. We know how to teach reading.”
Open the episode · #882: Why Kids Can Learn 10x Faster Than We Think — Niels Hoven of Mentava (Tim Coaching Session)Listen at 8:55
Mentava optimizes phonics instruction and makes it usable for very young children.
“We take phonics, we optimize it, we teach it really nicely, we make really good UX, we make it really easy for two, three, and four-year-olds to use.”
Open the episode · #882: How to Teach a 3-Year-Old to Read and Rethinking Education — Tim Coaches Niels Hoven of MentavaListen at 9:19
Mentava combines optimized phonics with UX usable by children aged two to four.
“we take phonics, we optimize it, we teach it really nicely, we make really good UX, we make it really easy for 2 and 2, 3 and 4-year-olds to use.”
Open the episode · #882: Why Kids Can Learn 10x Faster Than We Think — Niels Hoven of Mentava (Tim Coaching Session)Listen at 9:19
Human motivation can be reliably engineered through established design principles.
“human motivation is kind of a solved problem.”
Open the episode · #882: How to Teach a 3-Year-Old to Read and Rethinking Education — Tim Coaches Niels Hoven of MentavaListen at 10:29
Mentava uses motivation design to encourage phonics and sound blending practice.
“our goal with Mentava is, OK, the hoop we want kids to jump through is learning all of these phonic sounds and learning to blend them together.”
Open the episode · #882: Why Kids Can Learn 10x Faster Than We Think — Niels Hoven of Mentava (Tim Coaching Session)Listen at 11:20
Mentava customers frequently praise the product and recommend it to friends.
“we've built a product that we are really proud of, that when our customers use it, they rave about it and they tell their friends about it.”
Open the episode · #882: Why Kids Can Learn 10x Faster Than We Think — Niels Hoven of Mentava (Tim Coaching Session)Listen at 21:29
Independent, self-paced study enabled Niels to progress quickly without homework.
“those four years of being able to learn on my own, at my own pace, allowed me, I didn't have any homework, I got to go as fast as I wanted.”
Open the episode · #882: How to Teach a 3-Year-Old to Read and Rethinking Education — Tim Coaches Niels Hoven of MentavaListen at 27:04
Children can combine public school with one hour of daily Mentava study.
“the ideal case is let's let our kids go to public school with their peers from their neighborhood. And then, you know, for like an hour a day during math class, they study Mentava.”
Open the episode · #882: How to Teach a 3-Year-Old to Read and Rethinking Education — Tim Coaches Niels Hoven of MentavaListen at 27:41
Children should remain in public school while using Mentava during part of the school day.
“the ideal case is let's let our kids go to public school with their peers from their neighborhood. And then for an hour a day during math class, they study Mentava”
Open the episode · #882: Why Kids Can Learn 10x Faster Than We Think — Niels Hoven of Mentava (Tim Coaching Session)Listen at 27:41
Self-paced learning can compress a full school day into much less time.
“if you allow kids to learn at their own pace, you can pack the entire school day into a very small amount of time.”
Open the episode · #882: How to Teach a 3-Year-Old to Read and Rethinking Education — Tim Coaches Niels Hoven of MentavaListen at 28:31
Self-paced learning can compress a full school day into substantially less time.
“if you allow kids to learn at their own pace, you can pack the entire school day into a very small amount of time.”
Open the episode · #882: Why Kids Can Learn 10x Faster Than We Think — Niels Hoven of Mentava (Tim Coaching Session)Listen at 28:31
Niels’s son completed eighth-grade math while enrolled in third grade.
“he finished eighth grade math while he was in third grade.”
Open the episode · #882: How to Teach a 3-Year-Old to Read and Rethinking Education — Tim Coaches Niels Hoven of MentavaListen at 28:48
Niels’s son completed eighth-grade math while enrolled in third grade.
“he finished 8th grade math while he was in 3rd grade.”
Open the episode · #882: Why Kids Can Learn 10x Faster Than We Think — Niels Hoven of Mentava (Tim Coaching Session)Listen at 28:48
Children generally learn letters before they can blend sounds into words.
“kids are able to learn letters and letter sounds quite a bit earlier than... actually being able to blend those sounds together and be able to read.”
Open the episode · #882: How to Teach a 3-Year-Old to Read and Rethinking Education — Tim Coaches Niels Hoven of MentavaListen at 32:57
Children generally learn letters before they can blend sounds into reading.
“kids are able to learn letters and letter sounds quite a bit earlier than actually being able to blend those sounds together and be able to read.”
Open the episode · #882: Why Kids Can Learn 10x Faster Than We Think — Niels Hoven of Mentava (Tim Coaching Session)Listen at 32:57
Very young children may be unable to understand left-to-right reading order.
“for younger kids whose brains haven't connected those neurons or whatever, this is a nearly impossible question.”
Open the episode · #882: Why Kids Can Learn 10x Faster Than We Think — Niels Hoven of Mentava (Tim Coaching Session)Listen at 33:46
Mentava switches children to letter-sound instruction when they fail its reading-order test.
“if they can't, we boot them over to kind of, we'll just teach you letter sounds.”
Open the episode · #882: How to Teach a 3-Year-Old to Read and Rethinking Education — Tim Coaches Niels Hoven of MentavaListen at 34:01
Mentava intends premium pricing for private tutoring but low or no pricing for schools.
“Our philosophy is that if you want to use us as essentially a private tutor to accelerate your kid, that's going to be expensive. But if you're a school just using us as a tool to support your teacher, we'd like that to be cheap or free.”
Open the episode · #882: How to Teach a 3-Year-Old to Read and Rethinking Education — Tim Coaches Niels Hoven of MentavaListen at 35:25
Mentava intends to offer schools low-cost or free classroom access.
“if you're a school just using us as a tool to support your teacher, we'd like that to cheap or free.”
Open the episode · #882: Why Kids Can Learn 10x Faster Than We Think — Niels Hoven of Mentava (Tim Coaching Session)Listen at 35:31
Mentava costs $500 per month.
“This is a $500 a month product”
Open the episode · #882: Why Kids Can Learn 10x Faster Than We Think — Niels Hoven of Mentava (Tim Coaching Session)Listen at 36:19
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