A tutor should teach from your last real attempt
grademy is being built to notice how a learner thinks, change the next teaching move and check that the idea holds in one continuing tutor relationship.
The prototype won the $10,000 prize.
A real Google hackathon result proved the idea could be made tangible. It did not prove a learning outcome.
One attempt should change what happens next
The product loop starts with the learner's work, changes the teaching move, then asks for fresh evidence before calling anything understood.
The learner goes first
The tutor begins with what the learner tried, not a guess based on age, course or a polished final answer.
What the tutor should remember
What they tried and where the reasoning changed direction.
The difficult work is proving it
A prize can validate a prototype. It cannot tell us whether a learner understands more, remembers longer or trusts the tutor with a difficult subject.
Public today
Public demonstrations are scripted examples of the intended experience, not measured learning outcomes.
Still to earn
We do not yet claim universal course quality, guaranteed grade gains or that every learner will benefit in the same way.
The standard is to make every claim about progress traceable to something the learner actually did.