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Introducing Koji, a personal tutor for every home
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Learn by doing. Math, computer science, and science.
- A great tutor is expressive! Thanks to our friends @rive_app for making it possible to break Koji out of the chatbox, and infuse him with joyful dynamic range.
00:00... and when the teaching's done, it's time to celebrate 🤩
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'@tbpn: “Do you feel like you have a duty to make learning addictive?” No. My goal is for our tutor Koji to work himself out of a job. Koji offers more help when you’re doing conceptual learning, then steps back as you reach mastery. A great tutor creates students who ask the
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Our household is a huuuuuuge fan of the @brilliantorg app Our 7yo is an avid DAU, deeply self-motivated to hit what Brilliant calls a “streak of the century” (smart naming) True story: The day the AI tutor showed up for him in the app, he ran to tell me “mama! mama! Brilliant - School conditioned generations of kids to ask: “Will this be on the test?” The next generation will ask: “How far can I go?”Just spent an hour with daughter learning CS 101 from @brilliantorg She doesn’t want to give up until she beats Joyce B 🔥
- Brilliant.org repostedPOV: Thinking is cool again Insane response to the launch! I tripled the # of gift invites and only have a few left, then wrapping the promo. But, Koji is generally available today on Brilliant’s website/apps! Thank you all so much for the support.
00:00 - Private tutoring has been the most effective form of instruction for millennia, but it has been reserved for an elite few. We built Koji for everyone else.Replying to @brilliantorgUltimately, the goal is for Koji to make himself unnecessary. Koji offers more help when you’re doing conceptual learning, and steps back as you reach mastery. His job is to gradually hand the thinking back to you, until you're the one asking yourself the questions he used to
00:00We spent a long time building a tutor we wished existed. Nobody could prepare us for the magic of how it makes people feel. Try Koji today: - Brilliant.org reposted
When we create novel connections We generate luck Helping people find important work is one such stroke Excited to see what you ship at Brilliant.org @OliviXu - Brilliant.org repostedLove this. Such an excellent description of what mathematical thinking is, and how it differs from ways you can computationally "do math".My daughter has very mathematical thinking, while her younger brother is naturally inclined toward computational thinking. I once gave them a problem: Divide the numbers 1 to 9 into three groups such that the sum of each group is the same. How many ways are there to do this?
- Brilliant.org repostedReal learning is hard. And it can feel “fun,” but not because of gamification. From teaching math at Brilliant, we’ve seen that classic gamification barely moves time-on-task. The real gains come from the content’s game design: clear goals ("Which quadrant is this in?"), variedthere's an epidemic of fake learning. duolingo, tiktok, youtube. it's all entertainment cleverly disguised as education. real learning is hard. it's uncomfortable. if it feels 'fun', you probably aren't learning anything.
