Dan Meyer

This video is THE sign of the times for me, a loud alarm indicating that the arm’s race between teachers and students around AI is headed towards disaster. I explain why & offer a solution here: danmeyer.substack.com/p/updating-m... 📹: www.tiktok.com/@carterpcs/v...

youtube.comWashington students stage walkout over lack of AI guidelines for the classroomYouTube video by KGW News

High school kids in Vancouver, WA, walked out over AI. An organizer: > I don’t think it’s fair that teachers get to use AI in lesson planning and grading and that students can’t use it for anything. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4yR...

Teachers and students have different jobs, yes, but both exist in a social compact that says, "We will both bring the HEAT here. No weak stuff." And with AI lesson plans & grading, kids increasingly see their teachers as bringing weak stuff.

I’m a huge fan of the Super Wrong, Kinda Right routine. A meager math problem can nourish a bunch of kids when you ask them what the answer CAN’T be and how they know. practicedrivenpd.com/instructiona...

The headline: "AI tutors do just as good as humans at half the cost." The appendix: "We threw out a bunch of students who didn't use the AI tutor enough." Me: "You see how this looks right." Study: arxiv.org/pdf/2609.28470

I moderated a panel a week ago. First question: a man stood up & said, "I recorded this whole panel with Wispr Flow and asked AI what question I should ask you." Deeply unsettling behavior. Like what are we doing here?

18 Sept

People are NOT going for it. What's your hypothesis for this chart, bsky?

18 Sept

My hypothesis: these adults have internalized that the evidence in favor of AI in schools is wafer thin. Maybe also: the labor market seems utterly unpredictable right now so stick to learning about things that have mattered.

It's all over tech-adjacent Twitter. "Kids can learn 2x ... 5x ... 10x! ... faster than in regular schools." My question, always, is "... learn WHAT?"

When tech Twitter claims to have hacked learning, their one weird trick for saving time is often just to do LESS stuff — to teach math at shallower depth or to teach kids to negotiate their ideas with fewer other kids who differ from them in fewer ways.

So s/o to the teachers and schools and parents who are committed everyday to maintaining lofty goals for children's social and mathematical learning, doing a lot with what little they have, unbothered by people who believe it is a great accomplishment to do less with less.

It's all over tech-adjacent Twitter. "Kids can learn 2x ... 5x ... 10x! ... faster than in regular schools." My question, always, is "... learn WHAT?"

4️⃣ We learned how to negotiate ideas together—how to critique and support one another’s work, how to explore their own path while keeping the group’s needs in focus.

All of those goals are in addition to getting an answer and all of them takes time.

It's all over tech-adjacent Twitter. "Kids can learn 2x ... 5x ... 10x! ... faster than in regular schools." My question, always, is "... learn WHAT?"

2️⃣ We were developing our intuition. We first estimated our answer as a check on our later calculation.

3️⃣ We developed our understanding of place value. 4 isn’t two times as large as 2 in the problem above. It’s 200 times larger. It's easy to get the right answer and miss that fact about numbers.

It's all over tech-adjacent Twitter. "Kids can learn 2x ... 5x ... 10x! ... faster than in regular schools." My question, always, is "... learn WHAT?"

Last week, in fifth grade, the kids spent twenty minutes on two problems. If we only wanted kids to learn to get answers, yes, we could have done that MUCH faster. But here is what we learned BEYOND getting answers ...

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1️⃣ We were learning conceptual connections, solving the same problems in three different ways, connecting older methods like area models and newer methods like the standard algorithm.

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Tom Berger

@tfberger.bsky.social

3 Dec 2025

This discussion featuring @ddmeyer.bsky.social should be very interesting: www.aei.org/events/educa...

👋 Here is a zip file with all the handouts & slides people uploaded from the NCSM & NCTM annual conferences last month. Scraped the conference website. 400 files. 1GB. Who loves you? Me, that's who. limewire.com/d/nQXRY#AX97...

9 June 2025

Happy summer to all who celebrate! <3

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26 Mar 2025

Via Dylan Kane's recent post - thanks for the resource! Fun puzzles. 👇 bsky.app/profile/unso...

Matt Enlow@unsolvedmre.bsky.social

I'm pretty sure that Number Snake is from a set I "published" five years ago! (I'm not mad, I'm pleased that it found its way to you!) t.co/hKEb8ox3Ef

25 Mar 2025

I taught a seventh grade lesson on equivalent expressions last week and did something Not Very Nice on the warm-up.

25 Mar 2025

Big fan of the Beast Academy books. Can you spot the exact moment here where my kid had an epiphany?

chalkbeat.orgPennsylvania denies AI cyber charter school applicationUnbound Academy promised students would learn “twice as fast” with AI tutors instead of traditional teachers. The state of Pennsylvania said the school did not provide enough evidence to support that.

30 Jan 2025

Good. www.chalkbeat.org/philadelphia...

30 Jan 2025

"While a single deficiency would be grounds for denial, the Department has identified deficiencies in all five of the required criteria." Gotta apply some aloe after reading this denial letter.

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Tom Berger

@tfberger.bsky.social

29 Jan 2025

Great newsletter from @ddmeyer.bsky.social today. Asked about the choices edtech companies make, Meyer said, “You either bet on teachers or you bet on software, and if you bet on software, you eventually learn you have to build a teacher.” (Note: He does not believe that they can build a teacher.)

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Oh Kay

@ohkaypretty.bsky.social

29 Jan 2025

@ddmeyer.bsky.social is still one of the most thoughtful and interesting voices in edtech, even years after I've lost basically all interest in edtech

30 Jan 2025

I wrote about the difficulty of trying to make a better teacher out of AI like Khanmigo. (Also, 24 hours after I posted this, Khan Academy changed Khanmigo, but didn't fix it.) danmeyer.substack.com/p/in-edtech-...

@professorbrendan.bsky.social

28 Jan 2025

Something that makes me really sad is seeing the teachers who write the testimonials on AI edtech products having to get second jobs as stock photography models. Teachers like "Michelle (8th Grade Teacher)" deserve a living wage!

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Brendan W. Sullivan

9 Jan 2025

Apparently just responding with "idk" over and over can trick an AI tutor into solving a math problem for you... Good to know! @ddmeyer.bsky.social danmeyer.substack.com/p/these-tuto...

danmeyer.substack.comThe Tutors Are Too NiceReviewing predictions from 2024 and making new ones for 2025.

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Edtechification

@edtechification.bsky.social

8 Jan 2025

Excellent analysis of the 'AI' school that kept popping up on my feeds. #edtech #aiineducation #edusky

Dan Meyer@ddmeyer.bsky.social

Okay you might have heard about Unbound Academy & 2 Hour Learning. Ads all over social. Lots of press coverage because they got a virtual charter approved in AZ behind claims they've replaced teachers with AI. Things are more AND less than they seem here. 🧵

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Jeremy Roschelle

@jeremyr.blog

9 Jan 2025

Good read from @ddmeyer.bsky.social danmeyer.substack.com/p/the-truth-...

danmeyer.substack.comThe Truth About 2 Hour Learning & Unbound Academy a/k/a The School “Replacing Teachers with AI”They haven’t replaced teachers with AI. They have replaced poor kids with rich kids.

I’d love it if 2x the learning in 2hrs were possible in public school, but the only evidence we have is that it’s possible in private schools where parents generally have resources, where kids come to school fed and rested, where parents can afford backup tutoring.

8 Jan 2025

Unbound Academy hasn’t replaced teachers with AI, as they claim. Their 2x learning in 2hrs, as far as I can tell, comes from replacing poor kids with rich kids. Coming to a state near you. Keep an eye out. More here. 👇 danmeyer.substack.com/p/the-truth-...

But they’re also applying for charter licenses all over the US. Seeking access to public funds. So it’s important to note 1️⃣ their “2x learning in 2 hours” claim comes exclusively from private, not public schools ($40k / year in Austin!) …

8 Jan 2025

2️⃣ Their board in AZ are also their vendors. Important because the board approves vendor purchases. Software exec MacKenzie Price wants to charge Unbound $6500 / student for software. Who approves that fee? MacKenzie Price, Unbound board prez! Big conflict. Check out PA too! 👇

I read Unbound Academy’s charter application in AZ. They haven’t replaced teachers with AI. They’re hiring certificated teachers & more of them per student than typical schools.

7 Jan 2025

Unbound Academy, an AZ charter school claims to have replaced teachers with AI with students learning 2x more than usual. I read their application in AZ, but ALSO in UT, AR, NC, SC, and PA. It's wild. Sending out my report tomorrow. Subscribe here. 👇 danmeyer.substack.com

13 Dec 2024

🫡 Audrey Watters on the Khan Academy segment on 60 Minutes. 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/12-years-and...

13 Dec 2024

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