Public Relations Specialist

NOTE: This is a work for stock only position now. We have a cure for education and we are looking for a PR specialist who can help us bring this to the world. This is a chance to bid for greatness and to take on a cause greater than yourself. If that fits who you are, please read the story of METY Technology's founder, Dr. John Leddo. I was raised by a single mom in a one-bedroom apartment in New York City. She had never been to college, so there was no reason to believe that my future would be anything special. I was told that education was a path to a better life, so I did my best in school. When I was ready for high school, I received a full scholarship to Phillips Exeter Academy, the number one private high school in America. There, I was exposed to the nation's elite. I ran track with a boy whose grandfather was emperor of Thailand. I was friends with a boy whose father was our UN Ambassador. The valedictorian of my year ran for President in 2020 (spoiler alert: he didn't get the nomination). Though I received a tremendous education, what impressed me most about Exeter was that the students believed they were destined to be very successful. Not because they felt they were better than everyone else, but because that was the world they came from, so they naturally assumed that would be the world the would live in. I graduated Exeter wanting to ensure that every child in the world had that same sense of empowerment: believing that they could achieve anything they set their minds to and had the education to enable them to. That was 50 years ago. I decided to change my focus from math and physics to educational psychology. I wound up getting a PhD from Yale and joining the workforce. My first major project was to study what made someone an expert, a project I sought because experts were the best in any field and it was natural that education should turn students into experts. The project taught me two powerful lessons. Expertise wasn't about time on the job (not everyone who put in a lot of years was an expert); it was how experts thought and approached problem solving. Equally importantly, to a one, every expert I worked with told me that they didn't learn to become experts from their schooling but from their on the job experience. I thought this was tragic. It was up to people to figure out on their own how to be the best. They weren't learning it at school. Since I had learned what makes someone an expert, I next asked the question of whether I could turn it around and create a blueprint for teaching people to become experts. I needed to become an architect. An architect takes a vision of a house and turns it into a blueprint that, if followed, makes that vision a reality. What's more, the blueprint is something that doesn't require an architect to follow. It could be handed to bricklayers, electricians, and plumber, and they could build the house. I needed a framework that didn't require a Yale PhD to implement but could be handed to everyday teachers. I create the framework and started testing it in schools, each time achieving amazing results. The first test was at an alternative school where I taught at-risk 9th graders the scientific method. After a 25 hour program, the at-risk 9th graders were performing at a mainstream 12th grade level. Next, we had 8th graders in math showing a 50% improvement in problem solving performance compared to students taught using their school district's standard methods. The biggest test came in New Jersey when a school district that was failing and in danger of being taken over and run by the state asked me to help them improve student performance. I taught their teachers my framework and within a couple of years, that district was top performing in the state and invite to a state conference as a model of success. At this point, I had shown that my framework worked at scale and when turned over to others to implement. My challenge was that education was still a bureaucracy and highly resistant to change. I wasn't scalable. I couldn't go to every school district in the world and teach my methodology. I needed a scalable solution. Serendipity smiled upon me. Fortunately, by then, the Internet had taken off and everyone was online. Equally fortunately, when I was at Yale, my thesis advisor happened to be one of the pioneers of AI, and so I learned a lot of AI along the way. The combination of AI and the Internet would be my answer. AI would help personalize education to make each student an expert and the Internet would deliver the solution. To gain more experience working with individual students and to learn how to sell to parents (since those are the ones who care most about a child's education), I started the tutoring company MyEdMaster. At MyEdMaster, I taught students 1-1 but also continued my research, this time involving the students as co-researchers. We did experiments to see how much expert knowledge students already have and how they respond to educational methods designed to increase that expert knowledge. And then things got interested. You see, education has always been about what we do to students. We decide what to teach them, we do the teaching and then we assess them to see what they what they learned. I wondered whether it was possible to teach students to assess their own level of expert knowledge using the methods I had created 40 years earlier. I turns out the answer is yes. Students can learn to reliably assess their own degree of expert knowledge and it takes only 10 minutes to teach them. All you have to do is show them a transcript of someone self-assessing and say "do this on yourself". Even elementary school students can be taught to do this. But that answered only half the question. The other half is whether, once students self-assess their knowledge, can they fill in the gaps and improve their performance. Not only is the answer yes, but emphatically so. We've now published 15 papers in scientific journals that show that after 10 minutes of training, students ranging from second grade to college can improve performance in subjects of math, science, reading, history and foreign language by an average of 1.5 to 2.5 letter grades. This means that after 10 minutes of training, C students become A students. We've done this with students in the US, Scotland, China and India and we're currently putting together programs in Africa. Think about it. A method that is free to implement, takes only 10 minutes, works for all students, all subjects, all grades, in every country tested. It puts the power in the hands of the student and doesn't require bureaucratic approval. For every child who has ever struggled and doubted his or her abilities, there is now a proven solution. If we didn't have 15 published papers across so many grades and subjects and countries, I would agree that this sounds too good to be true. But then again, if you told people 150 years ago that they could walk into a dark room and touch a button on the wall and the room would become instantly lit, you would have been laughed at. Now we take it for granted. Why? Because Edison doggedly tried 10,000 times to make a light bulb that works. I spent 50 years on my solution. That's how solving societal problems work. Someone has to persist for a long time against the odds. When that person succeeds, the solution winds up becoming easy. Your job, as our PR specialist is to help spread the word to the world of our solution to education. In the process, you can also publicize our cutting edge technologies that are also built on this lifetime of work: the only AI instructional software I know with a published scientific paper that shows that it teaches way better than human teachers do; chatbot technology with a published paper that shows it works twice as well as Chat GPT; interactive, AI-based TV technology that makes kids part of the show and lets them interact with the TV characters while learning, thereby improving learning by a factor of 4; textbooks that learn how each student learns and writes themselves to optimize each student's learning. We believe we are a multi-billion dollar company in the making and this is your chance to get in on the ground floor. This is a chance to be part of something that is bigger than yourself. To make a difference in the lives of children all over the world. Since we are starting to bring these products to market (we have two products that are being released within the next month), you will initially work for stock only. As revenues come in, we can shift this gradually to paid work. Because this is a work for stock position, you can work part time and set your own hours. This way you can still earn a living elsewhere. Since this represents my life's work and I'm inviting you to be my business partner and co-owner of the company, I'm looking for serious and qualified candidates only. If this is just a placeholder for you while you look for another job or you're in it only for the money, please don't apply. If you've always wanted to make a difference, then this could be your opportunity. Seniority level Entry level Employment type Other Job function Marketing, Public Relations, and Writing/Editing Technology, Information and Internet Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at METY Technology by 2x #J-18808-Ljbffr