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Thanks for this question! It's a fair and valid one, and I'm sorry to see that you got a snarky reply (that seems to now have been deleted).

Since we're specifically building for traditionally under-served teachers/students, one example of what we're looking for with that question is an awareness of how technical decisions can impact equity. For example, in education technology, there's often a "Matthew effect" (https://www.allancho.com/2022/02/the-matthew-effect-and-digi...) where students who start with advantages tend to benefit more from new interventions. We want to ensure our product does't inadvertently widen this gap, and instead truly helps underserved students. Hope that's helpful!

Teaching Lab | Senior Software Engineer | REMOTE (US) | Full-Time | $125,000 - $164,889

We're a nonprofit on a mission to make research-backed learning strategies (such as spaced repetition) accessible in K-12 classrooms through our web app, Podsie. You'll have significant ownership and impact on our product.

Ideal candidates:

- Are passionate about improving education (bonus if you're a former teacher!)

- Have a strong bias for action and entrepreneurial spirit

- Are technically strong across the full-stack

- Have experience in smaller startups or roles with significant product ownership

We're research-driven (eg. currently part of an NSF-funded project with CMU and Memphis), teacher-focused, and committed to measurable learning outcomes in under-resourced classrooms.

Read more about our work here: https://podsie.notion.site/The-case-for-spaced-repetition-in...

JD + Application here: https://jobs.lever.co/teachinglab/6b64797d-cb45-4d46-a777-22...

Please also feel free to email me at josh@podsie.org for more info!

Teaching Lab | Software Developer | REMOTE | Full-Time | $82k - $153k

Teaching Lab, a growing education non-profit, is hiring a Software Developer to help scale our web platform, Podsie. Podsie makes it easy for teachers to utilize personalized spaced repetition in their classrooms to help their students retain what they've learned throughout the school year.

We're using Rails/React/TypeScript/GraphQL/Postgres to improve K-12 education nationally and looking for someone with 2+ years of experience to join our fully remote team. Join us on our mission to empower teachers and improve student learning outcomes! Apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/teachinglab/5a5dbaac-da5d-4490-801e-17...

Thanks, and good question!

Ideologically, I think Anki and Podsie are pretty aligned in our beliefs that personalized spaced retrieval (often referred to as spaced repetition) is a much more efficient and effective way to learn and retain information compared to other traditional review practices (eg. reading textbooks or going over notes).

Learning-wise, perhaps the key difference is that while Anki is very focused on the individual-learner, we're much more focused on empowering each teacher. This means that we've needed to build features like having different autogradable question types (eg. short answer and multiple choice), ensuring that teachers have easy-to-follow data reports on how students and classes are doing, and also providing teachers with tools to incentivize their students to regularly review on Podsie.

As a former middle school teacher, I found that the evidence-based techniques that the author mentioned, such as "spacing" and "retrieval", were underutilized in classrooms due to teachers not knowing about them, as well as how tedious it can be to implement them. I founded a nonprofit called Podsie (https://www.podsie.org) to help with this problem, and we created a free tool that's essentially like "Anki for classrooms" so that teachers can help their students study more effectively in their classes.