WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:11.200 --> 00:00:17.260 Welcome to Transformative Principal, where I help you stop putting out fires and start leading. 00:00:17.770 --> 00:00:19.270 I'm your host, Jethro Jones. 00:00:19.270 --> 00:00:21.970 You can follow me on Twitter at Jethro Jones. 00:00:21.970 --> 00:00:22.030 Okay. 00:00:35.117 --> 00:00:37.067 Welcome to Transformative Principal. 00:00:37.067 --> 00:00:41.147 I am very excited to have Benny. 00:00:41.672 --> 00:00:47.042 I didn't even ask you how to say your last name, but I'm not even gonna use your last name because I don't when it's students. 00:00:47.432 --> 00:00:57.092 This is one of my favorite things about the podcast is when I can have a student on the show and talk about their learning experience because it is so stinking powerful. 00:00:57.092 --> 00:01:08.102 So, uh, Benny is a 16-year-old student sophomore who's at Alpha School, which is something that I have talked about before and they're doing really cool stuff. 00:01:08.427 --> 00:01:12.687 And he likes playing video games, playing instruments, and debating a variety of topics. 00:01:13.227 --> 00:01:23.127 He's been, uh, in Austin his whole life and been at Alpha for three years, and the Alpha students complete an Alpha X project, which is an individual project based on their passions. 00:01:23.127 --> 00:01:28.317 When he was in middle school, during his first year at Alpha High, Benny's project was based on music therapy. 00:01:28.527 --> 00:01:36.207 However, as he progressed through high school, he began to change his project to a YouTube channel that explains how video games are educational. 00:01:36.512 --> 00:01:42.812 And this change was inspired by the first thing he does when he gets home from school, which is naturally playing video games. 00:01:42.842 --> 00:01:45.692 So Benny, welcome to Transformative Principal. 00:01:45.692 --> 00:01:46.772 Great to have you here. 00:01:48.016 --> 00:01:48.731 I'm glad to be here. 00:01:49.832 --> 00:01:50.372 Excellent. 00:01:50.372 --> 00:01:58.622 So first, let's talk about what Alpha School is for people who don't know and tell us about what it is and what your experience there is. 00:01:59.981 --> 00:02:02.916 So Alpha School is a private school. 00:02:03.346 --> 00:02:09.491 It's, um, located in a variety of places Alpha School is a school where. 00:02:09.956 --> 00:02:19.496 It's all, it's mostly AI based, but you spend three hours in the three to two hours in the day learning about, um, academics. 00:02:19.496 --> 00:02:38.631 And then the rest of your time is spent on things like workshops which help you build your real world life skills that, uh, help you grow as a person and an Alpha X project, which is where find their passions and turn that into a business that they believe can be successful. 00:02:41.637 --> 00:02:43.497 I'm getting a little bit of plosives from you. 00:02:43.752 --> 00:02:50.592 So if you just move your, uh, microphone on your headset up so it's more aligned with your nose than with your mouth. 00:02:50.652 --> 00:02:51.642 That should be good. 00:02:52.212 --> 00:02:53.382 Alright, how's that sounding 00:02:54.851 --> 00:02:55.031 Good. 00:02:55.392 --> 00:02:56.022 say? 00:02:56.126 --> 00:02:56.416 Yeah. 00:02:57.342 --> 00:02:57.702 Okay. 00:02:57.732 --> 00:02:58.242 Very good. 00:02:58.302 --> 00:03:02.652 When you get excited, then your voice comes up quite a bit more, so I'm excited about that. 00:03:02.742 --> 00:03:04.632 Um, don't worry, we'll cut that part out. 00:03:05.142 --> 00:03:09.522 Um, so, so, uh, why. 00:03:10.682 --> 00:03:13.592 First, why did your parents send you to Alpha School? 00:03:13.652 --> 00:03:17.157 What was their idea there and why do you, did you wanna stay going there? 00:03:18.581 --> 00:03:31.816 Uh, my parents sent me to Alpha School because I've been homeschooled my whole life, and they saw a school that had like a lot of skills in AI-based learning, and my parents aren't like huge on academics. 00:03:32.591 --> 00:03:45.596 They believe that, like that's one of the least important things that schools teach, and they put me into Alpha School because they saw that I could learn passions and learn life skills that I struggled with before. 00:03:48.247 --> 00:03:48.757 Awesome. 00:03:48.787 --> 00:03:49.567 Very good. 00:03:49.747 --> 00:03:57.882 Uh, and so tell me about, uh, other Alpha X projects and some something that you've seen somebody else do. 00:03:59.591 --> 00:04:01.661 So there's a lot of other Alta X projects. 00:04:01.661 --> 00:04:19.181 I think the best ones that have been like the most well developed are from the Because, uh, they have projects like building a safe teen dating app and building a therapy stuffed animal that, gives that listens to you. 00:04:20.111 --> 00:04:35.531 I think those projects are really incredible because they show how people have, like a passion and a drive that they need deal with and use it to create a business that they, that's. 00:04:36.386 --> 00:04:37.796 Being extremely successful. 00:04:38.757 --> 00:04:41.797 Yeah, so, uh, I think that's really cool too. 00:04:41.797 --> 00:04:48.727 When I was a principal, one of the things that I focused on was giving kids opportunities to, to do these kinds of projects. 00:04:48.847 --> 00:04:53.497 And what I saw from the kids doing these kind of projects was that they're, 00:04:53.786 --> 00:04:54.386 Oh, you. 00:04:54.457 --> 00:04:59.797 the things they learned were so much more than, that's all right. 00:05:00.157 --> 00:05:10.477 So what I learned is that the things that the kids learned through doing these projects were so much more than they could've learned if we would've taught them those things directly. 00:05:10.837 --> 00:05:12.397 Are you seeing anything like that? 00:05:12.397 --> 00:05:13.567 What does that look like for you? 00:05:15.221 --> 00:05:26.831 I think that like not only does like building a project help them become like a better or find a good business strategy for that they could do for their their entire life. 00:05:27.221 --> 00:05:29.981 But I also think that it's, um, a good way to. 00:05:31.676 --> 00:05:36.356 Their speaking skills because have to talk about and present it. 00:05:36.776 --> 00:05:38.516 Um, we have a lot people who go to. 00:05:43.912 --> 00:05:45.682 Yeah, that's, that's very cool. 00:05:46.102 --> 00:05:51.142 Um, so public speaking is one of those things, but there are so many other things as well. 00:05:51.172 --> 00:05:58.397 Like you are doing stuff around, uh, YouTube channel and, and you're learning how to create content that get. 00:05:58.702 --> 00:06:00.652 Its attention and gets people to watch it. 00:06:00.922 --> 00:06:03.592 How to market yourself, how to write effectively. 00:06:03.592 --> 00:06:14.062 Like you wrote to me and said, I want to come on your podcast, and like you've gotta figure those things out and you maybe use some AI tools to help with that. 00:06:14.062 --> 00:06:14.692 Maybe not. 00:06:14.692 --> 00:06:19.882 Did you use AI to help you find podcasts or write emails to hosts to get on their shows? 00:06:21.731 --> 00:06:23.231 Uh, we were told to. 00:06:23.621 --> 00:06:31.331 I, I didn't really want to though because it, it kind of just felt automated, so, uh, I changed up a little bit, but, uh. 00:06:31.886 --> 00:06:43.651 In terms of my actual project, I'm, I'm not gonna use AI as much because people, uh, especially on like social media and YouTube, don't enjoy when people use AI in their content. 00:06:45.092 --> 00:06:45.452 Yep. 00:06:45.992 --> 00:06:46.892 Yeah, that's very true. 00:06:46.892 --> 00:06:52.802 I get, I get a lot of pitches for people to come on my show because I've been doing it for 13 years and so. 00:06:53.507 --> 00:07:14.162 There's a lot of people who email me and your email stood out mostly because it looked genuine and it looked like you were a real person writing me instead of trying to like cleverly tie in somebody else that I recently interviewed, which, you know, because I get so many, uh, I can see those very quickly. 00:07:14.947 --> 00:07:19.987 And they just go in the junk because that person obviously didn't put in the time and effort to do that. 00:07:19.987 --> 00:07:32.257 So these are, these are other skills that you're learning as well of how to relate to people, how to reach out to them and, and get, uh, get action from them when, when you're trying to get something from them. 00:07:32.257 --> 00:07:33.607 And I think that's really valuable. 00:07:36.577 --> 00:07:39.542 So tell me, uh, what is the name of your YouTube channel? 00:07:41.366 --> 00:07:44.741 Uh, I haven't actually uploaded any, uh, videos 00:07:44.912 --> 00:07:45.692 interesting. 00:07:47.216 --> 00:07:52.946 I've been like hard researching on how to perfect, like an entire roster of videos. 00:07:53.156 --> 00:07:53.606 I've 00:07:53.642 --> 00:07:53.762 Ah, 00:07:54.056 --> 00:07:55.826 like started editing my first video. 00:07:55.826 --> 00:07:57.446 I'm almost done with it. 00:07:57.446 --> 00:07:59.186 It'll probably be out in December. 00:07:59.867 --> 00:08:00.157 okay. 00:08:00.497 --> 00:08:00.797 All right. 00:08:00.857 --> 00:08:03.752 And this, this podcast is not gonna come out until. 00:08:04.172 --> 00:08:05.192 January. 00:08:05.312 --> 00:08:08.432 So, uh, so you'll have, it will be out. 00:08:08.492 --> 00:08:09.962 Your video will hopefully be up. 00:08:09.962 --> 00:08:12.812 So do you have the YouTube channel already or are you still building it? 00:08:12.866 --> 00:08:14.246 I haven't, I, I'm 00:08:14.462 --> 00:08:14.942 Okay. 00:08:15.056 --> 00:08:15.266 Yeah. 00:08:15.482 --> 00:08:18.332 Okay, so it, can I give you a little feedback? 00:08:18.332 --> 00:08:18.962 Is that all right? 00:08:20.882 --> 00:08:30.032 All right, let me, the first thing, this is why I tell everybody who, 'cause I help people start podcasts also in the beginning, nobody's gonna see your early stuff. 00:08:30.976 --> 00:08:31.266 Yeah. 00:08:31.442 --> 00:08:43.262 So the thing that is the best source of feedback for you is actually putting stuff out there, and if you don't put something out there, then you don't know how well it performs. 00:08:43.472 --> 00:08:48.962 So my challenge to you, Benny, would be to upload something by the end of this week. 00:08:50.411 --> 00:08:50.736 Got it. 00:08:51.437 --> 00:08:54.887 Don't worry about it being perfect and you don't have to take my advice. 00:08:54.887 --> 00:09:08.657 It's fine, but get something out there so that you see how it performs and you can share it with people and they can give you feedback about it, and that is gonna be your best way to move forward and grow. 00:09:09.197 --> 00:09:10.847 So let me, let me ask you a question. 00:09:11.567 --> 00:09:14.507 Uh, have you ever done ceramics or pottery or anything like that? 00:09:15.371 --> 00:09:15.701 No. 00:09:16.517 --> 00:09:19.547 Have you ever done any painting or drawing or anything like that? 00:09:19.661 --> 00:09:20.021 Yeah. 00:09:20.471 --> 00:09:20.801 Yeah. 00:09:20.837 --> 00:09:24.167 Okay, so how many paintings have you painted? 00:09:26.051 --> 00:09:28.451 Like not a lot, like seven. 00:09:29.147 --> 00:09:32.752 Alright, so did you improve from the first one to the seventh one, 00:09:33.956 --> 00:09:34.766 Yes. 00:09:35.022 --> 00:09:35.912 obviously, right? 00:09:36.852 --> 00:09:38.752 If you're doing something that you. 00:09:39.497 --> 00:09:46.457 Uh, like painting or videos or whatever, you get better as you practice more often, right? 00:09:47.477 --> 00:09:47.927 Like 00:09:48.026 --> 00:09:48.266 Yeah. 00:09:48.497 --> 00:09:50.717 if you draw the same thing, you're gonna draw it better. 00:09:50.717 --> 00:09:53.857 If you draw something different, you're gonna learn different skills and different styles and all that. 00:09:54.482 --> 00:10:01.532 So doing something and getting it done is, there's a real value to that. 00:10:02.102 --> 00:10:05.912 The same thing goes with creating videos and a YouTube channel and all that kind of stuff. 00:10:06.212 --> 00:10:16.982 You can spend hours researching, but there is nothing as good as actually getting the thing out there and making it live for people to see. 00:10:17.402 --> 00:10:22.172 So, so imagine that you spent, uh. 00:10:22.622 --> 00:10:37.652 You spent a year and every day you researched how to make the best painting and, and that was one path you took, and then say you took another path and you painted something every single day, who do you think would be better? 00:10:37.952 --> 00:10:47.462 The better painter, the one who researched everything and did one masterpiece, or someone who created 365 pieces of artwork. 00:10:51.112 --> 00:10:52.532 Yeah, absolutely. 00:10:52.652 --> 00:10:57.962 And, and that's not just like wishful thinking that is very real. 00:10:58.052 --> 00:10:59.402 You can demonstrate that. 00:11:00.362 --> 00:11:06.137 So I would actually encourage you to, instead of, uh, researching anymore. 00:11:07.232 --> 00:11:09.242 Just start publishing stuff. 00:11:09.542 --> 00:11:15.122 And I would challenge you Benny to, to publish so much that it's kind of crazy. 00:11:15.632 --> 00:11:23.012 Like get out a video every single day for an entire year and just see what happens. 00:11:23.732 --> 00:11:33.152 And, and I say that Benny, because I know somebody who did that and he ended up getting millions of views on TikTok. 00:11:33.557 --> 00:11:36.947 And he had no idea what TikTok was before he started doing it. 00:11:37.607 --> 00:11:43.877 And, and he just every day put out a video no matter what, whether it was good or bad. 00:11:44.147 --> 00:11:49.817 And then he started to see, because he had so much information, what was working and what was not. 00:11:50.777 --> 00:11:55.037 So how does that idea resonate with you to just get something out by the end of the week? 00:11:55.907 --> 00:11:56.687 Is that scary? 00:11:56.696 --> 00:11:58.676 like that idea that, that's good feedback. 00:11:58.676 --> 00:11:59.576 I, I, thank you. 00:12:00.467 --> 00:12:00.977 All right. 00:12:01.487 --> 00:12:08.087 So, so what you're arguing for with your videos is that video games can teach you stuff. 00:12:08.087 --> 00:12:08.717 Is that right? 00:12:09.326 --> 00:12:10.076 Yes. 00:12:10.397 --> 00:12:10.697 Okay. 00:12:10.697 --> 00:12:12.227 So, so walk me through that. 00:12:12.227 --> 00:12:13.637 What do you, why? 00:12:13.667 --> 00:12:15.617 Why do you believe that and how do you know that? 00:12:16.946 --> 00:12:26.606 So, um, video games actually teach important things because like people are placed into situations where learning is put like. 00:12:27.566 --> 00:12:33.146 Into an active world and thinking critically has a meaning. 00:12:34.226 --> 00:12:38.606 like when you're playing a game, you're constantly being asked to solve problems. 00:12:40.736 --> 00:12:45.326 um, these problems like matter towards how you progress. 00:12:45.716 --> 00:12:49.826 And you have to adjust them if they fail and like consistently try them again. 00:12:50.306 --> 00:12:51.836 Um, and this like. 00:12:52.466 --> 00:12:54.386 Cycle of experimentation. 00:12:54.626 --> 00:12:58.166 It helps like build problem solving skills and resilience. 00:12:59.006 --> 00:13:08.336 And it's good to like normalize failure and because like school's like it's a bad thing if you fail in school. 00:13:08.516 --> 00:13:14.276 But if you fail in the game, you're like constantly learning and trying something new to like push that forward. 00:13:15.146 --> 00:13:19.766 Um, I found a study like a couple of weeks ago that shows that. 00:13:20.741 --> 00:13:35.921 people who are put into active worlds they, or into like active worlds where they can learn, do 1.5 times better on tests than students who, uh, are put into like traditional learning situations. 00:13:36.401 --> 00:13:40.841 And this is beneficial in things like math and science games. 00:13:41.261 --> 00:13:42.431 But, uh, 00:13:46.781 --> 00:13:48.941 I think that this can also be used for like. 00:13:49.361 --> 00:13:51.161 Proper life skill teaching. 00:13:51.881 --> 00:14:15.581 Um, I think that some games that like require communication such as or Rocket League or any team-based game can like teach you how to talk with people and work together with one another and stay calm when like things get stressful and like you'll quickly learn how to give instructions to others while like supporting your teammates. 00:14:16.631 --> 00:14:20.081 These skills are like used in everyday situations, like in. 00:14:22.162 --> 00:14:23.392 Yeah, they definitely are. 00:14:23.662 --> 00:14:37.702 So, uh, you talked about life skills a little bit and that's a area that I'm really interested in because, um, so I call those life skills organic skills, and I call the academic skills mechanistic skills. 00:14:38.272 --> 00:14:45.007 So life skills are organic because they grow over time and they can be different depending on the needs that you have. 00:14:45.782 --> 00:14:52.802 And depending on the circumstances you're in, you may need a skill more than a other times and, and that kind of thing. 00:14:53.072 --> 00:15:04.472 And then the mechanistic skills are, we have a right answer and we know that two plus two equals four, for example, we know that the Pythagorean theorem is A squared plus B squared equals C square. 00:15:04.937 --> 00:15:09.347 And so we can deal with and handle that, all that kind of stuff. 00:15:09.737 --> 00:15:19.217 That's all mechanistic and it's very clear what the outcome is, but the organic skills, the life skills, uh, that's not quite as clear and it's a little bit more difficult to measure. 00:15:19.975 --> 00:15:29.755 What other skills do they teach and how do they teach that instead of, 'cause they're not, they're not saying, here's a life skill and here's how you actually do it. 00:15:30.085 --> 00:15:34.105 They're, you're learning through experimenting and, and the experience of it. 00:15:35.299 --> 00:15:38.539 Yeah, so like I would like to categorize them into like. 00:15:39.379 --> 00:16:03.559 Different, uh, skills and categories in what, in what games teach, what skills, like for Logic games, I think Portal one and two are great because they teach, uh, logic and experimenting with things over and over again, and more obscure, uh, puzzle games like the Professor Laton franchise, they include puzzles that. 00:16:03.964 --> 00:16:08.374 Really get your brain to get to think because they get harder and harder as you go. 00:16:08.764 --> 00:16:14.374 And it puts a story in there that makes it more engaging to want to continue solving those puzzles. 00:16:16.054 --> 00:16:16.654 I think there. 00:16:23.005 --> 00:16:23.425 That's okay. 00:16:23.425 --> 00:16:23.935 All good. 00:16:24.145 --> 00:16:37.235 So what, what, um, when you come up to a point of failure in a video game, what makes you give up and walk away instead of persevering and sticking through it? 00:16:39.574 --> 00:16:48.269 In video games, people usually, usually takes longer for them to like give up on a thing than it would in real life because. 00:16:49.564 --> 00:17:01.384 People like feel motivated to get to like a task in a video game or complete some side quest, but like this benefits the player for completing the side quest 'cause they get something from it. 00:17:02.314 --> 00:17:09.634 like, I think this could be put into real world situations because they'll learn how to constantly try and try. 00:17:11.845 --> 00:17:25.345 The, the, the, uh, the consequences for failure in real life seem much heavier than the consequences for failure in a video game. 00:17:25.885 --> 00:17:41.155 So, so it it, it's important to develop that skill of, of having resilience and stuff, but it's not quite the same because if you die, you just start over and you know you can get back to that point. 00:17:41.635 --> 00:17:44.065 Or if you can't figure out the puzzle. 00:17:44.425 --> 00:17:47.965 You can just restart it and, and start fresh and try again. 00:17:48.445 --> 00:17:57.535 So how does that translate though to the real world where, you know, you, you run into an obstacle and you can't overcome it? 00:17:58.639 --> 00:18:03.079 So let's say you're like stuck on a let's, yeah. 00:18:03.079 --> 00:18:04.579 Let's say you're stuck on a math problem. 00:18:05.329 --> 00:18:12.559 You can either like continue trying to find a solution to that math problem or you can just give up. 00:18:12.949 --> 00:18:24.529 And the, the benefit of continuing is like the satisfaction of knowing that you did a good job 'cause you continued trying and, uh, the. 00:18:25.504 --> 00:18:46.294 This ties like directly to video games, or not directly to video games, but this ties into video games because if you feel like you achieve something, you're, if you feel like you're going to achieve something from doing it properly or professionally, then you're gonna feel more rewarded if that, if that, uh, answers your question. 00:18:47.075 --> 00:19:00.565 Yeah, so you, if you, what you're talking about then is the benefit of video games is that they, uh, give you opportunities for some sort of reward for the efforts that you're putting into it. 00:19:01.459 --> 00:19:01.679 Yes. 00:19:01.690 --> 00:19:07.810 And, and sometimes those are intrinsic, which is, I feel good about accomplishing something. 00:19:08.080 --> 00:19:15.820 And sometimes those are extrinsic, like solving the puzzle or getting, uh, first place or whatever the case may be, or being the last band standing. 00:19:16.825 --> 00:19:19.585 And so, so those things are real. 00:19:20.095 --> 00:19:25.015 But the challenge is, is when you're doing a math problem and you just can't get it, you feel dumb. 00:19:25.285 --> 00:19:27.475 You feel like you can't ever figure it out. 00:19:27.475 --> 00:19:33.145 And those are, those are tough things to overcome, especially if you don't figure it out. 00:19:33.145 --> 00:19:35.485 And there's, there's a hard. 00:19:36.070 --> 00:19:39.310 There's a hard lesson to learn there about how to overcome that. 00:19:39.370 --> 00:19:47.980 And, and so what advice would you give to somebody if they're, if they're struggling with that and they just want to give up and think they're dumb and can't do math, for example? 00:19:48.859 --> 00:20:08.089 They should continue trying because if they don't think that they can do math, they should at least try a little harder to go into the tools and resources they have to solve that problem because there's like multiple sources online that they can use to find formulas and solutions to the problem. 00:20:08.509 --> 00:20:13.249 So they should just continue trying, but with like adding on knowledge over time. 00:20:14.635 --> 00:20:15.025 Yep. 00:20:15.595 --> 00:20:25.825 So, uh, so what are some of the things that, uh, in your Alpha X project that Alpha School is doing to help you, uh, be successful with it? 00:20:25.855 --> 00:20:31.005 What resources or supports or what, what things are there to help you keep going when things are tough? 00:20:32.179 --> 00:20:38.449 Um, we're given a lot of AI tools and, uh, guide our guides. 00:20:38.449 --> 00:20:38.779 I like. 00:20:39.604 --> 00:20:42.244 Essentially teachers, but they're not exactly teachers. 00:20:42.634 --> 00:20:46.504 They're more of like support, uh, emotional and moral supports. 00:20:46.954 --> 00:20:50.614 And we also have a thing called a mo, things called motivational models. 00:20:51.064 --> 00:20:56.284 And these are like motivating a student for doing a certain amount of task or achievement. 00:20:56.284 --> 00:21:04.744 Like if I said, Hey, can I have a motivational model of having whatever new headphones I want? 00:21:05.164 --> 00:21:14.989 I could say, Hey, can I have a. new headphones if I achieve this goal, like uploading my video within the next few weeks, 00:21:15.540 --> 00:21:15.880 Yeah. 00:21:16.210 --> 00:21:16.510 Yeah. 00:21:16.540 --> 00:21:18.130 Not the next few weeks, Benny. 00:21:18.700 --> 00:21:19.900 The end of this week. 00:21:20.149 --> 00:21:20.389 this 00:21:20.470 --> 00:21:20.920 Yeah. 00:21:20.950 --> 00:21:22.690 So like you got four days, man. 00:21:23.320 --> 00:21:34.270 I'm serious be because you don't need any other outside motivation to do that, except that you're gonna get much better the more videos you upload. 00:21:34.720 --> 00:21:47.890 And if you want to create a YouTube channel that actually explains how it, how video games are educational and makes an impact with anybody, then nobody's gonna be able to watch it if you don't upload something. 00:21:47.895 --> 00:21:48.015 Right. 00:21:49.039 --> 00:21:49.639 Yes. 00:21:49.810 --> 00:22:03.910 So, so you gotta get out there and start doing it, and your first one is really gonna suck, and you have to be okay with that because no matter how hard you work on it, your 10th video is gonna be better than your first video. 00:22:05.014 --> 00:22:05.704 Hundred percent. 00:22:06.145 --> 00:22:09.955 Yeah, so, so like, you just gotta get out there and do it. 00:22:09.955 --> 00:22:12.355 And, and, and I believe in you, man. 00:22:12.355 --> 00:22:18.715 And once you do get out there, I'll, I'll share it and I'll let people know and they're gonna say, this sucks at first. 00:22:18.715 --> 00:22:25.255 And then later you're gonna get better and you can always go delete whatever stuff you put up and redo it. 00:22:25.285 --> 00:22:26.575 There's nothing wrong with that. 00:22:27.334 --> 00:22:27.544 Yeah. 00:22:28.495 --> 00:22:31.495 So, uh, so what videos are you. 00:22:32.110 --> 00:22:38.500 Uh, what's the framework and, and how do you want to create the videos and what do you want the videos to be about and stuff like that. 00:22:39.184 --> 00:22:49.204 So I'm gonna create, uh, long commentary videos, which are just like videos explaining how certain things work and like, I'm gonna go like topic at a time. 00:22:49.204 --> 00:22:56.164 My first video is gonna be how Minecraft raised us better than, uh, better than our schools. 00:22:56.554 --> 00:22:56.974 And. 00:22:57.405 --> 00:22:57.895 Correct. 00:22:59.824 --> 00:23:04.864 And, uh, I'm just gonna go, like, go in depth on certain topics for each video. 00:23:05.725 --> 00:23:06.235 Okay. 00:23:07.165 --> 00:23:10.465 So, uh, so I would say, is that your first video? 00:23:10.465 --> 00:23:11.395 How Minecraft raise us. 00:23:11.395 --> 00:23:12.445 Better than our schools. 00:23:12.895 --> 00:23:13.495 Awesome. 00:23:13.645 --> 00:23:15.295 Very provocative title. 00:23:15.535 --> 00:23:16.315 That's good. 00:23:16.435 --> 00:23:17.995 That'll get people interested. 00:23:18.355 --> 00:23:22.225 Um, but, uh, how long are you expecting that to be? 00:23:23.089 --> 00:23:23.829 10 minutes, 10. 00:23:24.625 --> 00:23:25.465 10 minutes. 00:23:25.585 --> 00:23:26.005 Okay. 00:23:26.104 --> 00:23:30.844 then after I upload that, I'm gonna like upload shorts of the clips in the same video. 00:23:31.780 --> 00:23:32.350 For sure. 00:23:32.410 --> 00:23:33.610 Definitely wanna do that. 00:23:34.120 --> 00:23:37.540 Um, so that, that sounds really good. 00:23:37.540 --> 00:23:39.850 And how, have you recorded that yet? 00:23:39.850 --> 00:23:41.050 Are you writing a script? 00:23:41.230 --> 00:23:43.480 What's your process for creating the videos? 00:23:44.229 --> 00:23:52.534 Uh, I usually write my scripts first and then record the audio and then edit the video after I record the audio so I can put the. 00:23:53.449 --> 00:23:55.129 The visuals over the audio, 00:23:55.855 --> 00:23:56.365 Gotcha. 00:23:56.545 --> 00:23:59.485 And what are you using to edit the videos? 00:24:00.019 --> 00:24:00.889 uh, premiere Pro. 00:24:01.510 --> 00:24:02.140 Premier Pro. 00:24:02.200 --> 00:24:02.650 Okay. 00:24:02.740 --> 00:24:03.340 Very good. 00:24:03.940 --> 00:24:05.470 Um, very cool. 00:24:05.500 --> 00:24:06.340 That's exciting. 00:24:06.400 --> 00:24:11.680 I'm looking forward to seeing how Minecraft's Minecraft raised us better than our schools this weekend. 00:24:11.740 --> 00:24:14.140 That's gonna be really fun to watch on Monday. 00:24:17.590 --> 00:24:20.710 So, uh, so how do you write the scripts? 00:24:20.710 --> 00:24:25.660 Do you use AI to help you or do you write all yourself or you, do you have friends that you write with or? 00:24:27.499 --> 00:24:45.829 Um, so at Alpha we have a thing called a brain lift, is like, like a bigger Google doc that stores all our, uh, researching information and to go, add stuff to my brain, lift every like 30 minutes in the morning, and. 00:24:46.699 --> 00:24:52.519 With like the new knowledge that I gain, I write my scripts using the, the knowledge that I gained 00:24:54.649 --> 00:24:54.769 I 00:24:55.110 --> 00:24:55.330 Hey. 00:24:56.029 --> 00:24:57.709 write it in a convincing way. 00:24:57.874 --> 00:24:58.164 Yeah. 00:24:58.885 --> 00:25:00.475 Could you, could you start that over? 00:25:00.475 --> 00:25:01.885 I lost your audio for a second. 00:25:01.885 --> 00:25:03.385 I just wanna make sure I get your answer. 00:25:04.794 --> 00:25:05.084 Okay. 00:25:05.084 --> 00:25:06.429 Uh, can you ask the. 00:25:06.805 --> 00:25:07.135 Yeah. 00:25:07.165 --> 00:25:13.615 So go ahead and go through your process of how you write the scripts and whether using AI and or friends or whatever. 00:25:15.259 --> 00:25:25.309 So when I create my scripts, I look at something that Alpha has called a brain lift, which is essentially like a big Google doc that stores all of the knowledge that we research. 00:25:25.729 --> 00:25:32.029 And I take, uh, what I learn from like the every 30 minutes in the morning that we use for our brain lift. 00:25:32.329 --> 00:25:35.419 And I use that to write our scripts or to write my scripts. 00:25:36.169 --> 00:25:41.509 I use that to write my scripts and, I try to write everything in a convincing way That's. 00:25:42.784 --> 00:25:48.634 Appeals to like a modern generation while still being listened to, while still being 00:25:50.734 --> 00:25:51.874 sorry, while 00:25:51.985 --> 00:25:52.435 It's okay. 00:25:53.104 --> 00:25:54.784 easy to listen to for older people. 00:25:56.275 --> 00:25:56.785 Gotcha. 00:25:56.905 --> 00:25:57.325 Okay. 00:25:57.775 --> 00:26:09.115 So, um, so how much are you, uh, as you go through this, um, you're creating this brain lift and how much are you, uh, using AI in the research or the writing? 00:26:12.124 --> 00:26:22.954 Uh, I use AI for the research, like finding, uh, different websites and sources for me to find like good, proper knowledge. 00:26:23.284 --> 00:26:33.364 And then, uh, I also use AI for experts and like experts are the people who we look to for like new knowledge and information and the insights that they share. 00:26:34.525 --> 00:26:38.170 Okay, so who are some of the experts that you're looking at for this kind of stuff? 00:26:40.369 --> 00:26:46.669 Um, I, I have a, like around 30 excerpts, but uh, one of my favorites is named Scott Novice. 00:26:47.149 --> 00:26:51.624 He uploads videos on YouTube and he shares like really good insights about. 00:26:52.609 --> 00:27:04.699 How video games should be given to kids, and that parents should allow every kid to play games as long as they're monitor, monitored properly, and they talk with their kid about like what they're playing. 00:27:05.899 --> 00:27:09.379 another, uh, expert I follow is they success. 00:27:09.739 --> 00:27:16.369 He explains how to create content without showing, uh, your base and still being successful. 00:27:17.359 --> 00:27:20.389 I'd highly recommend checking them out, but, um. 00:27:21.109 --> 00:27:29.029 Every Alpha student has around like 20 to 50 experts that allow them to research and and their insights. 00:27:29.980 --> 00:27:30.760 Fascinating. 00:27:31.210 --> 00:27:45.375 So, um, so tell me a little bit more about the Alpha School model, how its academics with AI in the morning and or rather, what I heard Mackenzie Price say about that is that. 00:27:46.255 --> 00:27:52.555 You probably shouldn't be using AI to help you in the morning, but you should be using it in the afternoon. 00:27:52.735 --> 00:27:56.185 And if you're not using it in the afternoon, you're probably not living up to your potential. 00:27:56.515 --> 00:28:02.635 And if you are using it in the morning, then you're probably using it to cheat because those two areas are, are separated, right? 00:28:02.635 --> 00:28:12.655 So the morning is about the, the way the AI helps is that it tells you the areas where you need to work and the skills you need to focus on. 00:28:13.150 --> 00:28:15.040 And, and that's the extent of it. 00:28:15.040 --> 00:28:29.290 And then you're practicing and learning, and then the afternoon you should be using it to, uh, to help you, um, like figure out how to do research effectively and, and find things and stuff like that. 00:28:29.590 --> 00:28:33.940 And then go ahead and explain that in, in your own words and what your experience is. 00:28:35.044 --> 00:28:37.624 Well, I like the way that Alpha is structured a lot. 00:28:37.924 --> 00:28:49.399 I like how majority of mine is spent towards our Alpha X projects and the way that I think that the, the way we use AI in the morning and, uh, it. 00:28:50.209 --> 00:29:13.489 We use, the way we use AI in the afternoon and then we're, we shouldn't be using AI in the morning is like a really powerful thing to say it shows that while you can be smart on your own, you should use the resources you have to increase your brain power, but when you need more. 00:29:13.984 --> 00:29:15.214 Facts and research. 00:29:15.214 --> 00:29:20.824 You should be using AI to help grow your brain and find facts that have already been shared. 00:29:22.330 --> 00:29:23.470 Yeah, absolutely. 00:29:23.495 --> 00:29:28.360 I, I think that's a really powerful way to look at it and having that information. 00:29:28.690 --> 00:29:34.990 Uh, at your fingertips is, is really good when you need it to accomplish a task. 00:29:35.230 --> 00:29:43.720 But if you're trying to learn something specific, you just need to do the actual work to learn it, because your brain doesn't learn it from looking it up. 00:29:43.960 --> 00:29:52.150 Your brain learns it from taking action with it, which goes back to what we were saying about the video games and the learning and video games being so much higher. 00:29:52.510 --> 00:30:02.110 The value and your, uh, ability to do good with with your videos is going to be so much better when you are producing lots of videos all the time. 00:30:02.470 --> 00:30:07.600 Much better than if you just tried to do one great one, you know, every couple weeks. 00:30:07.870 --> 00:30:17.440 But you know, 10 crappy ones over a week is much better for your learning than one great one over two weeks. 00:30:17.590 --> 00:30:18.520 Does that make sense Benny? 00:30:18.769 --> 00:30:20.059 Yes, yes. 00:30:20.740 --> 00:30:21.190 Okay. 00:30:21.520 --> 00:30:23.110 Uh, so this was awesome. 00:30:23.170 --> 00:30:32.650 Uh, I really appreciate your time and, and what you are doing and your, your desire to get out and share what you're doing with the world. 00:30:32.950 --> 00:30:39.795 Uh, like I said, this is gonna come out in January, and so when it comes out, how can people find your YouTube channel? 00:30:41.314 --> 00:30:43.594 Uh, I think you could just put a link in the description. 00:30:44.185 --> 00:30:48.085 Great, so I'll have a link at the show notes at Transformative Principal dot org. 00:30:48.415 --> 00:31:01.645 I encourage everybody to go check it out and give Benny feedback because hopefully by the time you hear this, Benny has like 10 videos up on his YouTube channel and I'll have a link to it in in the show notes, so you can check it out. 00:31:01.645 --> 00:31:02.875 Benny, this was awesome. 00:31:02.875 --> 00:31:04.435 I wish you nothing but success. 00:31:04.765 --> 00:31:06.265 Thanks so much for being here today. 00:31:08.179 --> 00:31:08.719 Having me.