Joe Liemandt

How do you get better educational outcomes and less time?

So there's a little revisionist history since I've only been here the three years.

But fundamentally, the design goal that our team uses is when we put in new software or new anything, does it increase their academic knowledge or reduce the time that it takes to learn it?

How do I get knowledge into a kid's head and not crammed where they're going to forget it, where it truly is, back to learning science, can change the scheme of their brain.

It's going to change it and it's going to be there forever.

And how do I do that and create thinking and create knowledge acquisition?

And how do I do that in the most efficient way possible?

And there's lots of the learning science that says, here's how you do that.

And so what we've been doing is saying, great, since I took over, became principal and started building out this product was, what are the principles of learning science that are the foundations of this that now can have a kid learn and learn well?

But when you come in, so how does it work?

So let's take a new kid.

If you're going to come in, the first thing that apps are really good at is figuring out what you know and what you don't know.

it's going to be able to ask you some questions.

So just think of any kind of assessment test.

A MAPS test would be a good example.

It's figuring out what do you know and what you don't know.

And then once we figure that out, we give you lessons to build up your knowledge from wherever you are.

The first thing you have to do in this that's very different is age grade and knowledge grade are very different things.

Just because you're in sixth grade age-wise doesn't mean you actually should be in sixth grade content.

And this is one of the big things that's different for a teacher in front of a classroom model, where a teacher has to deliver sixth grade material.