Josh Tyrangiel

I really hope that it inspires people who care about things in society to pick up AI and start playing with it and start owning it and start saying, you know what?

I'm in a school district.

Here's how we used to think about education.

Here's how we used to think about technology in education.

Let's do it differently.

You know, to me, the most inspiring thing I saw in real time in the book is I was in Indiana watching a 10th and 11th grade class learn stiochemistry, which, you know, the teacher sent me this Google Doc the night before, and I was like, oh, God, I have to go back to school.

This is going to be a nightmare.

And basically what she'd done with Conmigo, which is a tool that Con Academy collaborated on with OpenAI,

She just decided when she was teaching during COVID, these kids are tuning me out.

You know, they're sitting there, they got their laptops open.

I know they're looking at multiple tabs.

Now they're back in class with TikTok.

And she said, I have to reinvent what I do.

Because guess what?

Like the world is moving forward.

They have all this new technology.

And I'm sitting here lecturing at the top of the class like it's 1885.

No wonder I'm losing them.

And so she turned pretty much every lecture in her curriculum into a lab.

She turned every quiz into a lab.