Andrew Yang Podcast How Simple Tech Is Changing Education Forever
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Dec 1, 2025 Tinsley Galyean, Founder of Curious Learning and author of 'Reframe,' dives into how mobile technology is revolutionizing education. She shares insights from her groundbreaking work at MIT Media Lab and discusses a successful project in Ethiopia that taught nonliterate children to read. Tinsley emphasizes the broader impacts of literacy, including improved health and reduced poverty. She also highlights the importance of intentional tech design for learning and the intergenerational benefits of literacy on community development.
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Tablet Experiment In Remote Ethiopia
- Tinsley Galyean recounted giving tablets to children in remote Ethiopian villages with no schools or literate adults.
- After a year, those children reached literacy levels comparable to well-resourced kindergarteners.
High Reach On A Lean Budget
- Curious Learning has reached over 6 million households and a million in 2024 while operating on about a $2M annual budget.
- The model leverages existing inexpensive smartphones to scale literacy at very low marginal cost.
Use Parents' Smartphones First
- Activate parents to use existing smartphones at home rather than distributing new devices.
- Run low-cost awareness campaigns to prompt downloads and parent-led use for about $0.50 marginal cost per household.
