This is a tweetstorm about things that have surprised me having started a school, coming from a non-educational background
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1. Students’ brains are broken by our existing system. We’ve been reworked purely for extrinsic reward and forgotten how to learn entirely. The most frequently asked questions we get are “is this required?” and “donwe get a certificate for this?” It’s sad
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Most universities, surprisingly, have no way to measure their effectiveness, and most don’t try. If you can’t measure effectiveness you can’t fail.
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3. Many academics believe you can’t learn online. Not that you can only learn a subset of things or that the learning is worse because it misses x y and z if not in person. They literally don’t believe it’s possible to have an effective online education.
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4. Apparently I can’t spell or number things correctly
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5. We accept students from all sorts of backgrounds, including socioeconomic, educational, etc. Our top performers? The poorest students with no college education. Hypothesis? They have no other options
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Replying to @AustenAllred
That's interesting. Makes sense though, they know that opportunities for them are limited.
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Replying to @peterfraserbris @AustenAllred
What if they would have been the best no matter where they went because they are just fucking great performers? The assumption that socioeconomically poor people outperform those with better economic status due to pressure is discounting their intelligence
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It’s not a one person sample we’re talking about. We’re talking about a broad sampling of hundreds of people.
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