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by tdekken 3y ago
Thanks so much for your response Vanderson! I wish I had known about How to Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Lessons when I was teaching my daughter. I definitely fumbled my way through it :). > I think you have an up hill battle with g
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by tdekken 3y ago
Hi havercosine, I would love to (my contact info is in my profile).
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by tdekken 3y ago
Hi numeromancer, I am surprised to hear mention of Engelmann and Project Follow Through here on HN :). I would love to connect and learn more about how you discovered DI. FWIW, I am a former principal engineer at a FAANG company turned educ
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by tdekken 3y ago
Hi Vanderson, I am surprised to hear mention of Engelmann here on HN :). I would love to connect and learn more about how you discovered DI. FWIW, I am a former principal engineer at a FAANG company turned educational researcher / edte
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by tdekken 4y ago
In 2018, I took a year-long sabbatical from a FAANG company (FYI, I was principal level and it required VP approval). I had previously taken a few 1-3 month breaks between positions prior to the sabbatical. Although am I grateful for the ex
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by tdekken 4y ago
Thanks so much for your response @sirspacey! > Framing education as lessons presumes that lessons are how people learn To clarify, are you thinking of a lecture instead of a lesson? A lecture is "a speech read or delivered before
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by tdekken 4y ago
FWIW, this framing is the start of an essay I am writing about why the untold number of apps that purport to teach children to read fall far short and what can be done about it.
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Ask HN: Is EdTech Just Hype?
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by tdekken 4y ago
It depends how far down the rabbit hole you want to go :). I highly recommend checking out APM's documentaries on this issue ( https://features.apmreports.org/reading/ ). These are in-depth and accessible. If you wa
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by tdekken 4y ago
> surely the literacy crisis is a socio-economic problem not a technological one. Yes and no. It is, of course, not strictly a technological one, but the argument that it is a socio-economic one is, at best, an oversimplification. If you
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by tdekken 4y ago
> what have you done so far So far, I am a week into learning ML :). I have spent ~30 hours watching various ML courses and am in the process of testing the hypothesis that teaching reading with a shallower orthography (e.g., differentia
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by tdekken 4y ago
I would love to! My main goal is to use cognitive modeling to evaluate the efficacy of interventions and inform the personalized "minimum effective dose" for a particular learner. Academically, this is well-trodden territory [0-2]
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by tdekken 4y ago
Great question! I seem to be in a similar situation as an experienced software engineer who has jumped into the deep end of ML. It seems most resources either abstract away too much detail or too little. For example, building a toy example
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by tdekken 4y ago
Congratulations on launching! I love the combination of an app coupled with physical books. It really demonstrates your understanding of your customers. * I would love to know more about your phonics instruction. From what I can see, Ello e
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by tdekken 4y ago
We are building an early childhood literacy app focused on explicitly and systematically teaching the skills of reading (e.g., phonological awareness, decoding, and sight recognition.) The mission is to democratize access to evidence-based
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by tdekken 4y ago
I truly struggled with writing for the longest time, but three practices helped tremendously. The practices are 1) writing with a piecemeal approach, 2) accumulating notes as fuel for tomorrow’s writing, and 3) rewriting with keyword outlin
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by tdekken 4y ago
I have built a proof of concept that demonstrates the core mechanics of the approach. The challenge is that my background is in backend development, and so the UX doesn't make a good first impression. I am building a more polished demo
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by tdekken 4y ago
I can so relate :). I left my position as a principal engineer at a FAANG/MAAMA/etc. company in 2020 with a general direction to try to make a difference in the education space. It has been maddening trying to live up to my own ex
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by tdekken 4y ago
Hi ultra_nick, >> trying to automate tutoring. >> what's the best way to statistically guage a student's knowledge level? As you have probably already discovered, there is quite a bit of research in this area :). If an
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by tdekken 4y ago
According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, only 35% of U.S. fourth graders in 2019 could read proficiently [0]. The pandemic has only made this worse [1] [2]. Once students start to fall behind in reading, they fall furth
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by tdekken 5y ago
Is there a whitepaper that documents how PrepScholar "automatically learns the strengths and weaknesses of each student and creates an individualized learning program through machine learning"? For example, ALEKS [0] is based on t
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by tdekken 5y ago
It seems you would be far better served by something like Beast Academy [0] or Singapore Math [1]. A gifted and talented program generally just accelerates the core curriculum (i.e. teaches a grade ahead). Art of Problem Solving [2] has a c
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by tdekken 5y ago
No, not yet. In brief, some of the key challenges seem to be: 1) Each person's internal representation of knowledge differs (see [0]). Therefore it is difficult to take someone else's questions and answers and expect them to make
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by tdekken 5y ago
Hi nhatcher, You might be interested in https://github.com/google/mathsteps which is a CAS designed to automatically explain step-by-step a problem so that humans can learn from it. There is a presentation ( https:&#x2
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by tdekken 5y ago
LOL, I suppose "fiery email domain" could mean outlook/exchange if we think in terms of reliability. I updated it to "Microsoft's not cold email domain acquired in 1997".
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by tdekken 5y ago
I am a former principal software engineer at a MAMAA company turned independent educational researcher. My primary interest is in deliberate practice and how to use spaced repetition (i.e., Anki) to develop expertise. I have three primary a
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by tdekken 5y ago
I have done this 3 times previously (~1.5 years) and am 7 months into my current stint. It can be very monotonous and requires a great deal of self-discipline. I am fortunate that my spouse earns enough for our needs. -- My Story -- For my