Dr Jared Cooney Horvath

Should I do all this?

And it's just killer.

But I think another interesting thing, if you drive learning,

There's a concept called empathy.

Everyone's heard of empathy.

Empathy is a key driver of learning.

So that's where a lot of people think, well, cool, we want teachers who are empathetic.

But the joke is empathy isn't a trait.

It's not an emotion.

It's not a thing that you have.

It's a resonance between two biologies.

If you and I start to empathize, it's a measurable thing.

What's going to happen is our heart rates are going to start to beat simultaneously.

We're going to breathe at the same rate.

We're going to blink at the same time.

empathy is resonance and when you're resonating now i'm in your head so that's why it's so easy to learn from you i'm making the same moves you are on a screen it is ridiculously difficult to get resonance so if i'm talking to someone on a phone with a screen versus in person it's real hard to sync up to them that's why zoom learning during covid was just didn't work as well and so then a lot of people said well get rid of the teacher just go right on to ai or something well look

If I need two pairs of biology to resonate, and it's hard to do it over a screen, getting rid of the other person and just having a tool, there is no more biology for me to resonate with.

That's why dropout rates online are about 85%.

As soon as a kid starts struggling online, there's no sense of momentum, no sense of connection.

They just drop out and go to the next thing.