Education Bookcast Goodbye :)
Dec 31, 2024
A developer updates listeners about founding Panglot Labs and building language-learning apps for endangered languages in Taiwan. He recounts three big lessons from years of educational work: politics in education research, the complexity of motivation, and how teacher pride shapes practice. He highlights practical frameworks like direct instruction and cognitive science–based design.
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Stash Wore Every Hat While Building Language Apps
- Stash personally handled most roles at Panglot Labs in 2024: coding, content, curriculum, recordings, travel and stakeholder engagement.
- He used his own voice in demos and visited Formosan communities to co-design materials with local teachers.
Contact Panglot Labs If You Need Language Apps
- If you represent an endangered or minority language community, contact Panglot Labs to explore creating high-quality learning apps.
- Stash offers demos and collaboration and will expand company contact channels in 2025 beyond LinkedIn.
Education Advice Is Distorted By Politics And Marketing
- The education information landscape is politically shaped and noisy, so online search alone won't reliably surface best practices.
- Stash compared this to his scientific background where experiments more often speak plainly, unlike education where ideology and marketing cloud findings.
