Author: Charlie Gedeon
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How AI highlights the flaws in grading
AI is going to make teachers work much harder. Not because ChatGPT is killing student’s thinking, but because the grading system killed thinking already. However, a quirk in how grades are assigned is the reason things are going to get worse if we don’t change. For subjects with a high degree of nuance like writing,…
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I have been thinking about education for 15 years
The other day I was digging through some notebooks in my drawer, and I realized how many of them had notes about education. Each page I flipped through warped my sense of time passing. Though some of them were 10 years old, the notes felt like they were written yesterday. Not because the ideas themselves…
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Positive negatives
We need a word for experiences that are positive, but their undertones are negative. The situation that happened to me feels a little like this: I discovered a new song on Spotify that resonated super deeply with me through my Discover Weekly. Looking at the two collaborating artists, I thought to myself “Who are these…
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Sharing on social media sucks because we do it too much
I had a chilling thought yesterday about the effects of excessive exposure to everyone’s thoughts online: It’s easy to mock the excited posts of people celebrating new jobs and enjoying a small moment of victory in an otherwise difficult life. I used to dedicate my entire LinkedIn to laughing at these seemingly vapid posts. But…
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Improving marketplace UX by getting more users
Improving marketplace UX means getting more users You can improve marketplace UX with better search and helping users make offers. But the real secret? Having more people 📈. In our latest YouTube video, we did a UX comparison of Facebook Marketplace and Kijiji (a Canadian marketplace like Craigslist or eBay). Below we’ve summarized our learnings.…