th3MadPr0f @th3MadPr0f@qoto.org

if you want to know what tech startups think of education and teachers, this job ad on LinkedIn says it all. These companies exist to make money, educating students is not their first, second, or even third priority.
Some highlights: "Crossover is the world's #1 source of full-time remote jobs. Our clients offer top-tier pay for top-tier talent. We're recruiting this role for our client, gt.school. Have you got what it takes?
The most important thing you will do in this role (and maybe your entire career!) is be a part of building the future of education for your area of domain expertise. You will design a program to teach traditional school subjects but in a non-traditional way. We have a few core principles that guide our approach to learning:
Teaching is done through technology, not teachers. Why? Because learning apps take advantage of decades worth of learning science, including spaced repetition, forced recall, mastery-based progress, and adaptive algorithms which speed up and slow down to match the speed of each individual student. The science shows students can learn 2-5x faster and with better recall."...
"We believe technology can deliver an educational experience that engages and teaches kids 3-5x faster than the standard teacher-classroom model. By the end of our program, each student will be in the 95th to 99th percentile range in every school subject. If you are a passionate subject matter expert who believes that technology—not teachers—is the key to unlocking students’ full learning potential, then this job is for you."...
"About Gt.school
"gt.school is a stealth EdTech startup in Austin, Texas, the center of educational innovation in the US. Our unique approach leverages 50+ years of learning science, cutting-edge data analytics and high-performance life skills coaching. In doing so, we can help students learn 5x faster and unlock their full potential in both academics and in life. We are a remote-first company that hires globally via Crossover."
This company admits openly that it is attempting to avoid public notice. Likely because it offers no research citations to back up its claims and admits it is attempting to replace teachers with automated AI interaction. This, this is why my fellow educators are so resistant to jump on the bandwagon of every foolish idea and harmful edtech trend that shows up. Educating members of our societies requires time, money, and public investment of all types of resources. It cannot be automated and done well.

@siddarthious This is truly amazing and it will be interesting to see what new materials are possible to create and what can be made from them. Thank you for sharing this!

@JxckS He is a public figure. That doesn't apply to him.

@victorfattori The least they could do was be civil! 😆

@victorfattori Wow! I have gotten the
'we are disappointed that you aren't interested" treatment but never anything this aggressive.

@herid That seems like a lot of requests! I don’t typically see that many, although requests have increased recently. I do take the writing of these very seriously and will only write such letters if I believe the student has both the fortitude and dedication for graduate school.

@admitsWrongIfProven @toplesstopics @freemo
As a philosopher, I can think of many different ways to cash out the differences between nudity and pornography but perhaps one of the best ways centers around the idea of bodies as normalized aspects of human existence, rather than focusing on them for specific purposes that we might, as a server community, agree are not suited to the specific environment we wish to create here (on the server). For instance, pornography is the use of human nudity to create sexual excitement and gratification. If we all agreed that human nudity that is being used to create sexual excitement and gratification should not be permitted on this server, then other forms of nudity should not be prohibited unless we have other rules prohibiting the use of nudity for that purpose. Ultimately, we cannot control what people do with any nudity that might be shared here for other purposes, but we have created an express rule that should allow for moderation of nudity that appears to be shared for a purpose we have deemed in appropriate on the server.

Sent a very polite and respectful email asking them to reconsider.

@freemo @Gargron @trinsec @khird

I support the striking graduate student workers at UC/CSU.

@PawelK As a philosopher, I can empathize. Noone wants this.

@JensHannemann Welcome!

@CraigOfWaffes I feel like this is one of the kinds of things I was hoping to read here. I'm also looking for peer-reviewed articles, short bits of early drafts and research, etc.

@craigbaxter ❤️