#981 - MacKenzie Price - Alpha School: A New Approach To Education
MacKenzie Price is an entrepreneur, podcaster, and co-founder of Alpha Schools.
Just how broken is education? For fifty years, lofty promises in education have yielded dismal results. Now, with AI, infinite knowledge at our fingertips, and personalized one-on-one learning, how radically different could the school of the future look?
Expect to learn what is fundamentally broken about the current education and school system, what kills motivation to excel in school for kids the most, if the issue with addiction to screen time and technology is to blame for lack of performance, how AI will revolutionize the education sector and which schools are already ahead of the curve, How Alpha school convinces skeptical parents that this radically different system will benefit their child, and much more…
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Why is the School Model Broken?
(8:54) Why Has the Education System Resisted Innovation?
(11:23) Why We Need to Reinvent Our Education System
(18:58) How We Can Reimagine the School Day
(25:54) A Day in the Life at Alpha Schools
(35:08) Using AI in Education
(38:43) The Effectiveness of Using Technology in School
(43:29) How Learning is Measured at Alpha Schools
(51:20) Criticisms of Alpha Schools
(01:02:05) Where Will the Education System Be in 5 Years?
(01:06:28) Find Out More About Mackenzie
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