PL
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Drew B
Series Details
About
🔥Should we colonize Mars or not? 🔥What if we had one language for the world? 🔥Is your vote in a large election pointless? 🔥Should finance be decentralized? 🔥
These are some of the varied topics we'll discuss in this series. Get ready for lively conversations and debates. Each session has its own unique topic. The sessions are highly participatory 🗣️ and require your full engagement. As much as the sessions are about the content, they are the people 👨👨👧and the unique perspectives you all bring to the Zoom 📺room.
Note: this series is indefinite ♾️. I'll keep adding new sessions. Join if you're interested in getting updates every time we host a new session. You can choose which ones to attend.
Tutor Qualifications
I've been hosting Discussion & Debates since the start of Schoolhouse.
✋ ATTENDANCE POLICY
You can choose which ones to attend. The one requirement is that when you attend, you must be ready to engage! (It's more than OK if English is not your first language.)
Dates
November 30 - December 1
Learners
408 / 500
Total Sessions
23
About the Tutor
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I taught math at Khan Lab School and studied physics & CS at MIT. Excited to be a tutor at Schoolhouse.world.
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Upcoming Sessions
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1
Dec
CE
Session 23
Community Events
Prompt: Should finance be decentralized? How does crypto work, and what are the inherent tradeoffs at play?
Past Sessions
22
30
Nov
CE
Session 1
Community Events
Prompt: Should we colonize Mars or not? Is it better for us to get ourselves an "insurance policy" by spreading life to Mars, or to focus on improving our home here on Earth? (Thanks @Woody and @Jane for the idea!)
27
Dec
CE
Session 2
Community Events
Prompt: If Artificial Intelligence gets as smart as a human, would it deserve rights? (h/t Ramiz)
30
Dec
CE
Session 3
Community Events
Prompt: What if we had one language for the world? How would we go about making it a reality, and how would such a thing play out? Is there anything we can learn from the story of Esperanto?
9
Jan
CE
Session 4
Community Events
Prompt: What is the ideal world population? Right now, it is about 7,753,000,000. Is that too high? Too low?
13
Jan
CE
Session 5
Community Events
Prompt: What is something big that is acceptable today that future generations may find morally unacceptable?
20
Jan
CE
Session 6
Community Events
Prompt: Is homeschooling good or bad? Should we try to expand it, or no?
4
Feb
CE
Session 7
Community Events
Prompt: What is the value of a university education today?
24
Feb
CE
Session 8
Community Events
Prompt: Why should we study history? Is it just so that we don't repeat the past, or is there more at stake?
10
Mar
CE
Session 9
Community Events
Prompt: Why should we study math?
25
Mar
CE
Session 10
Community Events
Prompt: What does good parenting look like to you? Please come with an open mind, ready to share your personal perspectives and to learn from others.
13
Apr
CE
Session 11
Community Events
Prompt: How do you manage stress? Please come with an open mind, ready to share your personal perspectives and to learn from others.
4
May
CE
Session 12
Community Events
Prompt: How can you stand up for what you believe in, especially when others may be against you? (thanks for the idea, Najeeb!)
23
May
CE
Session 13
Community Events
Prompt: Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? What is the appropriate mindset and in what circumstances?
16
Jun
CE
Session 14
Community Events
Prompt: What is the value of art? And how does that change in a world of AI like DALL•E 2 (https://openai.com/dall-e-2/)?
12
Aug
CE
Session 15
Community Events
Prompt: Should we allow self-driving cars on the road? What if it turns out that everyone is positively benefited by them...except for one group — bikers?
2
Nov
CE
Session 16
Community Events
Prompt: How do we prevent a nuclear war?
8
Mar
CE
Session 17
Community Events
Prompt: What should schools teach once AI can read and write (and reason) as well as humans? Yes, this is about ChatGPT (chat.openai.com/)!
12
Apr
CE
Session 18
Community Events
Prompt: How can we best assess students in K-12 schools? Imagine we could start from scratch and design the ideal assessment system...
26
May
CE
Session 19
Community Events
[Special Session] Ask Me Anything (AMA) with Drew. Come prepared with questions. Happy to chat about anything and everything.
29
Jun
CE
Session 20
Community Events
Prompt: Is Apple's Vision Pro and Apple's vision for the future of technology a positive or negative development for humanity? What would you do if you were Tim Cook? (More details: https://www.apple.com/apple-vision-pro/)
29
Dec
CE
Session 21
Community Events
Prompt: Universal Basic Income (UBI) — In a future with increased automation and AI, is UBI a viable solution to address unemployment and inequality?
14
Aug
CE
Session 22
Community Events
Prompt: What is brain drain, how is it bad (or good) for a country, and what should we do about it?