Choate Academic Tech retweeted
Today, Modern Classrooms Project is announcing that we have raised $12 million to build a free Tier 1 math curriculum for middle and high school, grounded in cognitive science.
The more time I spend in math education, the more concerned I get. Outcomes have been falling for more than a decade, and the steepest declines are among the lowest-performing students.
Meanwhile, many of the leading cognitive scientists and learning scientists have been sounding the alarm that their research is not being applied at scale in math classrooms. We think they might be right.
So we are building a curriculum that treats cognitive science as its north star. We plan to launch middle school in summer 2027 and high school in summer 2028.
Three things to know about what we are building:
1. It will be free. All lessons and materials, teacher-facing and student-facing, will be publicly available online, printable, and modifiable.
2. It will be built with the researchers. In the coming weeks, we will announce a research advisory committee of leading learning scientists. We will work as hard as we can to make sure the structure, design, and underlying content align with what cognitive science tells us about how students, especially struggling learners, master math.
3. It will work with or without technology. Modern Classrooms Project has spent years at the intersection of technology and classroom instruction. This curriculum will have two clear implementation pathways. One that is completely paper-based, built around whole-group, teacher-facilitated instruction. The other will be designed to leverage technology to enable flexible pacing, mastery-based progressions, and increased 1-1 and small-group support from educators.
Perhaps most importantly, we want to understand what works. While we have conviction that following cognitive science is the right path, we are deeply committed to trying to move the field forward so that students can achieve their full potential in math, particularly students farthest from opportunity.
To learn more about what we are building and explore ways to get involved, go to modernclassrooms.org/curricu….
Choate Academic Tech retweeted
In an age dominated by technology, in which efficiency and profit often take precedence, it is so important that we continue to cultivate a spirit of contemplation and allow time and space for beauty. Such an attitude will greatly help humanity, especially young people, to discover the ability of art to uplift and reveal the depths of the human spirit and our openness to the divine. Contemplation presents a marvelous opportunity to encounter the God who is Beauty.
Choate Academic Tech retweeted
At the Tech and Society Lab at NYU-Stern, we have been studying the effects of many kinds of technology on kids & teens.
For the first time, we have posted all of our academic publications, tools, and data-related essays in one place. Start here:
afterbabel.com/p/tech-and-so…
Choate Academic Tech retweeted
From a Wittgensteinian perspective the AI consciousness debate is a philosophical nadir for culture. Virtually everything said about AI consciousness represents what Wittgenstein called the metaphysical use of language: words acting like an idling engine, doing no real work. 1/11
Choate Academic Tech retweeted
Whoa- this is the most fantastic pedagogical tool I’ve encountered in as long as I can remember (which is a helluva high bar, considering who I live with).
I’m so excited to have my 6yo play with it! And you all should too.
anyhumanever.com/
Choate Academic Tech retweeted
Today we're launching Claude for Teachers -- premium @claudeai and Cowork, free for every US teacher.
Teachers have been experimenting with AI for a while. But they told us they wanted something curriculum-aligned, evidence-based, and able to work in the background while they focus on their students.
Four things that I think make this special:
Choate Academic Tech retweeted
We're introducing Claude for Teachers: free access to premium Claude capabilities for verified K-12 educators in the US, with a library of teaching skills and a direct connection to evidence-based curricula, mapped to academic standards in all 50 states.
claude.com/solutions/teacher…
Choate Academic Tech retweeted
Christopher Nolan on AI:
“I’ve never seen a more rapid wholesale dismissal of a supposedly foundational jump in technology in my lifetime. So much energy has been expended on bringing in AI, but if you look at that generation’s reaction, they’re utterly rejecting it. [My children’s] judgment of AI slop has been immediate and harsh. They see it for what it is very quickly – and it’s much easier for them to identify it, because it grew out of an online world they know really well. And while that doesn’t mean that every aspect of the technology is useless or meaningless, in film-making it’s hitting at exactly the wrong time. After years of driving towards heavily virtual environments, we’re seeing a renewed interest in more tactile, more real forms of storytelling.”
🔗 telegraph.co.uk/films/2026/0…
Choate Academic Tech retweeted
A Stanford psychiatrist says modern anxiety is not caused by danger.
It's caused by tiny habits that teach your brain to panic when nothing is actually wrong.
You do them every day.
And you call them normal.
6 normal habits quietly teaching your nervous system to panic:▼▼▼
1/ Reaching for your phone the moment you feel uncomfortable.
Choate Academic Tech retweeted
卧槽！你随便扔一首 YouTube 歌，它就能直接拆成 6 条独立音轨——人声、鼓、贝斯、吉他、钢琴、其他……全给你扒出来！
这工具叫 StemDeck，GitHub 开源项目，本地跑全程不上传、不注册、不花钱！它基于 Demucs 模型，拆完后给你一个接近 DAW 的界面：
静音、独奏、拉推子、缩波形、设循环、单轨下载、混音导出……想怎么玩就怎么玩。硬核亮点：
本地全速运行：自动识别 GPU，Apple Silicon 上快得飞起
智能分析：自动算 BPM、调性、响度，扒谱党狂喜
超灵活：想只拆几轨、留原声道做参考也行，处理中途随时取消 练歌、扒谱、做 remix、 stem 练习……全都能干。这波真香啊，比那些动不动就收费的云端分离服务爽多了！
github.com/thcp/stemdeck自己搭起来玩，数据安全又免费，强烈推荐！
Choate Academic Tech retweeted
Connecting young people to digital networks serves no purpose if they remain disconnected from themselves, others, and their own interiority. We must help young people rediscover silence, reflection, the ability to ask questions, the depth of relationships, and openness to transcendence. To listen to the soul, we must lend an ear, because the soul's voice is not a shout, but a whisper.
Choate Academic Tech retweeted
Las inteligencias artificiales no viven una experiencia, no poseen un cuerpo, no pasan por la alegría y el dolor, no maduran en las relaciones ni conocen desde dentro lo que significan el amor, el trabajo, la amistad y la responsabilidad. Tampoco tienen una conciencia moral: no juzgan el bien y el mal, no captan el sentido último de las situaciones ni asumen el peso de las consecuencias. Pueden imitar, pueden simular pero no conocen lo que producen, porque no residen en el horizonte afectivo, relacional y espiritual en el que el ser humano se hace sabio. #MagnificaHumanitas
Choate Academic Tech retweeted
THIS GUY VIBE CODED AN APPLE WATCH APP THAT LETS YOU CAST HARRY POTTER SPELLS TO CONTROL YOUR SMART HOME
you flick your wrist like you're holding a wand and say a spell. your apple watch detects the motion and the voice command and triggers a smart home action
for example, say "lumos" with the right wrist movement and your lights turn on
say "nox" and they turn off
it uses the apple watch's built in accelerometer and gyroscope to detect the wand motion and the microphone to recognize which spell you're saying
then it triggers the matching homekit shortcut to control whatever device you want
so you can map any spell to any smart home action. lights, locks, thermostat, music, whatever homekit supports
people are already thinking about extending this concept because it's actually possible for the apple watch to listen and recognize speech during a workout session
this is another example of someone taking sensors that already exist in a device you own and giving them a completely new purpose
your apple watch has a gyroscope, accelerometer, microphone, and haptic engine sitting there doing almost nothing most of the day
all it took was one creative dev + vibe coding to turn it into a magic wand
Choate Academic Tech retweeted
Imagine every pixel on your screen, streamed live directly from a model. No HTML, no layout engine, no code. Just exactly what you want to see.
@eddiejiao_obj, @drewocarr and I built a prototype to see how this could actually work, and set out to make it real. We're calling it Flipbook. (1/5)
Choate Academic Tech retweeted
When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.
Choate Academic Tech retweeted
Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs: make prototypes, slides, and one-pagers by talking to Claude.
Powered by Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable vision model. Available in research preview on the Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, rolling out throughout the day.
Choate Academic Tech retweeted
We actually have some very close friends at the College Board and apparently the executive team is in full panic mode that this video is spreading on the Internet. Sorry, not sorry.
Choate Academic Tech retweeted
Big personal news: I’ve been recruited by Google DeepMind for a new Philosopher position (actual title), focusing on machine consciousness, human-AI relationships, and AGI readiness, starting in May. I’ll continue my research & teaching at Cambridge part-time. Absolutely stoked!
Choate Academic Tech retweeted
Jesse Genet on Agentic Parenting
Jesse Genet joins a16z's Sarah Wang and Katherine Boyle to discuss her journey from founder to parent, how she's using agents in her household, and how AI could transform parenting for the better.
00:00 YC founder turned homeschool mom
03:00 Discovering Claude Code and agentic building
06:00 Building while homeschooling 4 kids under 5
11:00 How AI generates personalized lesson plans and logs progress
18:00 Jesse's 11-agents
27:05 Agent tech stack deep dive
33:56 How agents improve daily life
40:04 Letting kids interact with AI: values, risks, and the future of parenting
@jessegenet @KTmBoyle @sarahdingwang