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AI is reshaping education, Alpha Schools CEO breaks down the future

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We have a very high bar. If a tool doesn’t produce We have a very high bar. If a tool doesn’t produce top-tier results, we cut it. As a result, our students rank in the top 1% for academics in the country.

We design many of our own adaptive learning apps with a specialized learning science team, but there are also some publicly available AI tools that we also use across our 20+ school locations. 

These tools have been battle-tested by our own students, and I’ve shared them all in my last podcast episode. 

Comment TOOLS and I’ll send the episode your way! 🩵
We don’t have academic test requirements for admis We don’t have academic test requirements for admission (we are frequently accused of only admitting the academically advanced).

We do test all of our students upon entry, but it’s simply to have a starting point to measure and track growth. We test to identify knowledge gaps and mastery levels.

Many students come to us slightly behind, but they soon catch up with our AI-powered adaptive app learning. It acts as an individualized learning plan for every student. Couple that with caring, motivating, and amazing Guides (teachers) and you have the blueprint for success. 

We have a student dashboard that updates in realtime, every day, every minute. Parents can access it, students can access it, and of course Guides can, too. It’s super valuable to ensure students are on track and identify any problems.
Today’s kids are growing up with screens. But too Today’s kids are growing up with screens. But too often, the conversation around them remains binary and reductionist.

The real question isn’t screen or no screen, it’s whether technology is being used to numb, or to equip.

This post was written in part by @austinscholar, a former Alpha student and current @stanford student.
Our students learn with learning software powered Our students learn with learning software powered by AI. The learning apps aren’t generative AI, meaning it’s not a chatbot or open access. Our apps have pre-loaded curriculum, and the AI is behind the scenes assessing each student and giving them the exact level of material they need at the right pace as well. This is a student from our GT school (Gifted and Talented) and it’s awesome to hear his perspective as an 8th grader on AI and how it’s helping him learn. That is the academic portion of the day-the first 2 hours. The rest of the day is spent learning life skills in project-based workshops. Some are tech based and use AI, some are art projects or cooking challenges-but they are all collaborative and challenging.
Literally thousands of people have commented “I lo Literally thousands of people have commented “I love your school-except the AI part.” 

What they don’t understand is the learning software powered by AI is what makes the awesomeness possible. Our learning apps allow our students to complete their academics in only 2 hours a day, which leaves the rest of the day for fun, cool, amazing projects that the kids actually love doing! 

Don’t just take my word for it. Let’s ask the kids. We survey our students every 6 weeks and we ask them a simple question- “Do you love school?” These are the types of answers we get. Over 90% say they love school. 

By the way, this isn’t a knock on teachers or any of his previous teachers, we all know that teachers are doing their best in a broken system. And we are seeing changes in districts across the US and world, but ultimately the mass exodus out of traditional school will continue until it’s forced to reinvent. 
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Chromebooks have got to be the worst use of screen Chromebooks have got to be the worst use of screen time in education I can think of. 

Most American students in grades 6-12 are on a screen for 6+ hours, the majority of that coming at school.  K-5 would be slightly less depending on the school. And that’s not even counting homework which is most likely on a screen. Our schools don’t have homework by the way.

To be clear, I’m not anti-screen time. In fact, it’s the opposite: I believe strategic screen time via adaptive apps is the greatest equalizer of education yet. 

But the way Chromebooks are being used today at most schools is a giant red flag: 

🚩 Digital non-interactive worksheets (meaning the worksheet is identical to one teachers used to pass out in class, it’s now just been scanned or digitalized)
🚩 Digital textbooks 
🚩 Digital non-interactive homework 

A good rule of thumb is this: If the material on the screen could be printed on paper and nothing would change, it’s a poor use of screen time. Currently, 90% of Chromebook use at traditional schools falls into this category. 

Our schools use screens, but it looks nothing like the above. The truth is:

Alpha students do roughly two hours of academics a day on adaptive software in the morning. The software is designed similar to a video game- it’s interactive and fun. It also adjusts precisely to the level of difficulty a student needs. 

After just 2 hours, the screens close. The rest of the day is workshops, life skills, projects, public speaking, entrepreneurship, sports, and outdoor education. Total daily screen time at most Alpha campuses is lower than at a traditional school that nominally “limits tech.”

We need to be using screens in a strategic way with measurable outcomes that transform learning or not at all.

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