Matt Bateman

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I had high school students try to get a 5 on the English AP using CGPT. They couldn’t do it last year, and part of the point of the exercise was to show that it wasn’t so much a single prompt fire and forget type of tool. Might easier now with better tooling.

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Between now and Christmas is the equivalent of seventy years in toddler time but in principle sure! Something small that he helps pick out and wrap

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Just watched 4yo assertively confront another 4yo on the playground to defend her 1yo brother “You need to stop that right now. You cannot just take that toy from him.” Was instant. Unblinking eye contact, aggressive posture, all up in other child’s face Felt primal, atavistic

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Generally Montessori schools run pretty far ahead of the things that people care about (math, language arts). If that isn’t the case it is extremely hard. You’ll end up only with alt-ed die hards.

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I wouldn’t call myself a true founder but am just short of that for a Montessori school startup, happy to do an ama here if there’s interest

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1. If you’ve read AM and are curious about methods I would look at Montessori’s Own Handbook (early childhood curriculum) and the Advanced Montessori Method vol 2 (elementary curriculum) Comprehensive resources are lacking but The Montessori Baby and The Montessori Toddler are pretty good for those ages 2. Your #1 resource as a parent is patience. Figure out how to have patience abundance. 3. I have no idea how to fruitfully get children onchain. My oldest is 4yo and barely knows what the internet is. In my (fairly naive) conception of the promise of blockchain, I think it would be awesome if my children could start storing or at least referencing things they’ve done that are important to them on chain, on the premise that it’s a future proof way to represent digital identity. In practice I don’t know of any way to do that that a child would experience as worthwhile until much older.

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My fav Montessori book is Advanced Montessori Method vol 1, aka Spontaneous Activity in Education

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Not really. Dynamics probably a bit different in early childhood education which is our focus

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Sure The six essays that form the approach are public https://higherground.substack.com/p/friday-note-a-different-approach

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The only thing I really find truly triggering is when one of my children hurts another and when I feel in that in some sense the offending child could have known better

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My 4yo is quite difficult (IMO) and I need to sort of rethink/reset my relationship with her every 3 to 6 months. Some sort of power dynamic generally develops and it needs to be unwound. I need to rediscover and replenish my well of patience.

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As for Guidepost… it was awesome. And it’s still awesome. For me personally, I got to be a philosophy PhD founder whose historical and intellectual expertise was greatly valued for core product. Also: I got to write essays on DEI and covid and every culture war topic and then see the ideas implemented.

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I was on the founding team of Guidepost Montessori, now the largest Montessori school network in the world I think (150 schools). Wild 8 year ride. I moved to board last year to focus on writing a book (on education, in progress). Not sure what is next. Too many ideas. Been mulling them a lot.

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I’ve tried to evangelize it to my Twitter community and I failed to get a critical mass of them over—as I mentioned, I’m pretty adjacent to web3 community. But I’ve still been on and off here, especially since parenting channel was added. And I remain a fan and a believer: this is how things should be.

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@jasoncrawford.eth turned me on to Farcaster. I really love the product, or what is now the Warpcast part of the product. (I really love Twitter and this product is better than Twitter.)

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I greatly value that kind of decentralization/interoperability. I’ve always loved social media (even in its proto forms, like usenet and phpbb and what not). It seemed obvious to me that content steams should be blockchain-ified and SM feeds should interpolate from them.

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I’m not really “in” web3. I’m barely a technologist. Basically in 2021 I wanted to see what the fuss was about by getting my hands a bit dirty, as I do. One afternoon and $500 (lol) in gas later, I had my a ha moment: I made an OpenSea account and some NFTs I had minted *were just there*.

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Does channels vs main matter?

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