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It feels like everyone’s talking about AI in homeschooling — but what if they’re asking the wrong questions?

At Science is WEIRD, we’re hopeful that AI could open a new kind of education for everyone... but we worry it could also scrape away the very purpose of learning.

This technology forces us to go back to a fundamental question: what is education really for?

Is memory still important?
Is “being creative” being transformed?
How can we cultivate what makes us human?

We’ll look at three possible directions AI could take society, and ask how we might prepare our kids for them now.

Sunday October 11 and Sunday October 18
3pm Eastern / 12pm Pacific
A cameras-off webinar
1 hour long (time for questions after)

You can choose either date, or both. We mean these to be the same presentation… but we wouldn’t be surprised if they’re different enough that you want to attend both. Links to both recordings will be sent to everyone who registers.

A fresh path between “classical” and “child-led.” These ten fast-paced summer workshops show you how to teach every subject by feeding your child’s deepest hungers — for awe, justice, mastery, belonging, and more. Based on Kieran Egan’s theory of education, this is homeschooling that re-enchants the world and helps your whole family become more fully human.

Dates: July 15 – August 14, 2025
Days: Tuesdays & Thursdays
Time: 3pm Eastern / 12pm Pacific

Workshop Schedule:

• July 15 – A new way to see education

• July 17 – Geography & history with memory and delight

• July 22 – Life & physical science as kinship and wonder

• July 24 – Arithmetic and deep problem-solving

• July 29 – Foreign language through sound, story, and structure

• July 31 – Vocabulary & writing through savoring great sentences

• August 5 – Literature as the key to powerful storytelling

• August 7 – Art & music as immersive, sensory love

• August 12 – Philosophy & world religions as big questions

• August 14 – Adulting: how even chores can matter

For more (so much more!) see the full description on the webpage.

How can you remember all the math you’ll ever learn?

We want our kids to feel the joy of hard math — to become friends with the problems they struggle with. This is hard to do, because math curriculums (even the best!) treat “forgetting” as an afterthought. What we know from cognitive science, however, is that minds are built to forget. Forgetting isn’t a bug, it’s a feature — a tool to help us learn more.

What if we could weaponize forgetting to learn math more fully — and to love the struggle?

You’ll get the recording right upon purchase. For teachers, parents, and kids. You can also check out Brandon’s substack post: “How to Build a Deep Practice Book”.

Watch the promo video!

You’ll get the recording immediately upon purchase.

ChatGPT is the free AI that’s become the most quickly-adopted technology in history. It’s easy to start using… but it takes expertise & imagination to unlock its powers.

It’s no fad — we think that the people who learn to use this now will be the people who are able to do the most innovative work in the future.

This is a fast-paced, two-hour-long workshop. In it, we’ll take you from noob to 90th-percentile user.

You’ll learn how to…

• make its answers fit your brain

• avoid some dangers for kids

• become more creative than ever

You’ll learn how to incorporate ChatGPT into your schooling or homeschooling. You’ll see how ChatGPT can be particularly useful to people with ADHD or on the autism spectrum.

And you’ll come to understand how it works (which isn’t how it looks like it works), which will help you know when you can trust the information it gives you, and when you can’t.

Most of all, you’ll learn how to make ChatGPT really fun! (We haven’t had this much fun on the internet since the start of the World Wide Web.)

For teachers, parents, and kids.