The AI-Augmented Learning Thesis
A conversation that started with a question about courses vs mentors vs AI, and ended somewhere unexpected. The Question That Started It Can you compare buying a course and following a traditional top-down program versus working directly with a mentor—and more specifically, compare that to using AI as that mentor? Part 1: What the Research Actually Says Bloom’s 2 Sigma Problem (1984) Students who received one-on-one tutoring performed two standard deviations better than students in conventional classrooms. The average tutored student outperformed roughly 98% of students learning in a traditional class setting. ...