Continuing with my new protocol, here I’m going to share content I consumed and learned from. This week, I spent time doing general learning about a variety of topics.

What I consumed this week and what I learned from it:

• The learning science on how to become an expert – YouTube interview with Joe Liemandt, founder of Trilogy Software and ESW Capital. Joe is reinventing K-12 education as the principal of Alpha School, an AI-driven teaching program and school. Joe shared that their students spend only two hours a day learning and the rest of the day engaging in other activities such as sports, yet they learn ten times faster than in traditional school. Learning science combined with generative AI allows kids to learn in two hours what normally takes six hours, plus homework. The first hour is spent reading to become an expert on a topic. The second hour is spent summarizing what they’ve read. This works because it leverages the learning science “depth of knowledge” concept, a hierarchy that Liemandt  described as follows:
  
  • Level 1 – Do you know facts
  • Level 2 – Can you summarize the facts
  • Level 3 – Can you look at summaries and facts to identify new insights
  • Level 4 – Creating new insights that other people don’t have

        Reading and summarizing help students reach levels 1–3, allowing them to learn much faster.

That’s what I learned from what I consumed last week.