Austin Way
@Austin_Way • 5,624 subscribers
17y/o @AlphaSchoolATX Building the next generation of Ed-tech that will reach 1 billion kids.
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I've been teaching 100,000 fake students for 2 weeks. and used them to build the best AP prep system in the world. I took Qwen 3 8B models and gave them simulated human memory. Now every night thousands of simulated students start with zero knowledge of the social sciences. Their only training is our adaptive curriculum. They work through it, then take a full AP (advanced placement) practice exam. The first batch averaged a 3 on their exam. (~45th percentile) Then the agents looked at where they failed, and improved the algorithm. Again, and again, and again. Two weeks later, the average is 4.43 (~80th percentile) This is such an insane number because the curriculum they worked through is ONLY basic knowledge and comprehension. They were never taught how to build an argument, contextualize evidence, or even shown the exam rubric. ...And yet they're averaging 80th percentile on an exam that requires all of it. Basically built a machine learning feedback loop for edtech. Spoke about this at ClawCon & SXSW last week. This is just the beginning.
Austin Way286,017 views • 4 months ago
Our history students spend 45 minutes a day voluntarily learning geography. Every break, Every lunch... Same thing... GeoGuesser. So we asked the obvious question: Why doesn't this exist for history? We built it. You watch AI footage from a time and place in history. Then you guess where and when it happened. They love it.
Austin Way197,190 views • 3 months ago
A week ago I noticed our AP History students couldn't match world leaders to what they actually did. So we built a tier list game. Students rank leaders, then argue against a (somewhat sassy) AI to justify their placement. A week later, the knowledge gap is gone.
Austin Way37,021 views • 3 months ago
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