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Kids Will Start Reading At Two-Years Old | Mike Maples | Floodgate | firstminute capital

Sep 4, 2022

Children as young as two-years-old may soon start reading thanks to education apps accelerating the learning process. Bureaucracy and old teaching methods are the main obstacles to a better education system. The podcast discusses personalized learning, challenges in the K-12 system, creating superior products, and the shift to a computational economy.

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Mike Maples

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Educational apps enable children as young as 2 to read in 50 hours, challenging traditional learning methods.

Resistance to app-based personalized learning in schools hinders educational innovation and disrupts traditional teaching approaches.

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Empowering Kids to Read Early Through Tech

Advancements in applications and computer-aided learning allow children to learn at their own pace, revolutionizing the way young people learn. Evidence suggests that two-year-olds can learn to read in about 50 hours, transitioning to advanced math and computer science levels by fifth and seventh grade. This shift is driven by new technology capabilities and the inefficiencies of the current K-12 education system that underestimate empowering capabilities and overestimate traditional education's effectiveness.

The Shift to Mass Computation and Connectivity from Industrial Economy

03:43

China Awakening U.S. Need for Progress and stopping engaging in fakery

01:19

Exit, Voice, and Loyalty in Organizational Dynamics

01:57

Introduction

2min

Redefining Education Through Personalized Learning and Technology

22min

Creating Unambiguously Superior Alternative Products in the Face of Opposition

2min

The Shift to a Computational Economy

9min

Exploring China's Influence on Western Innovation and Education

5min

Disruptive Innovation in Ed Tech

6min

Soon kids as young as two-years-old will be reading.

That is the big bold prediction of Mike Maples, the co-founder and partner at Floodgate (and the host of the excellent Starting Greatness podcast).

How? Well, education apps have made it possible to ultra-accelerate the learning process. It's possible to do all the core bits of learning (reading, writing and arithmetic) in just a few hours a day.

This means that kids as young as 2 years old can be taught to read. It also means that older children can do all their core learning in just a few hours, and then spend the rest of the school day doing something more exciting (e.g building drones!)

So what is stopping this from happening? What is really standing in the way of a better education system for the whole of K–12 (from kindergarten to 12th grade) is actually bureaucracy and old ways of thinking.

For schools and teachers, they are incentivised to keep teaching in the old style, focusing on keeping everyone the same and learning at the same level. They don't want apps that adjust to every kid's pace.

That's just part of what I discuss with Mike on this podcast. Let us know what you think of this idea and this podcast at michael@firstminute.capital

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Crazy Until It's Not: Startups, Venture Capital & Big Ideas

Kids Will Start Reading At Two-Years Old | Mike Maples | Floodgate | firstminute capital

Episode guests

Podcast summary created with Snipd AI

Quick takeaways

Deep dives

Empowering Kids to Read Early Through Tech

Challenges in Adopting Educational Apps

Restructuring Education Paradigms

Venturing Beyond Existing Educational Systems

The Shift to Mass Computation and Connectivity from Industrial Economy

China Awakening U.S. Need for Progress and stopping engaging in fakery

Exit, Voice, and Loyalty in Organizational Dynamics

Remember Everything You Learn from Podcasts