At Alyra Academy, our approach is based on the latest research in education science, which clearly demonstrates that students learn best through an iterative process of experiential elaboration. Simply put, students learn best by doing, and when they are having fun. This might sound obvious, but the vast majority of education simply doesn’t optimize for these things — it spends most class time on boring lectures where the students are idly listening and, at best, engaging in rote memorization. Imagine how different education would be if nearly 100% of class were spent actually doing things. 

Cody designs the curriculum for each class to accomplish exactly this. You’ll never hear a lecture in an Alyra class, or see students taking notes, or memorizing anything. Instead, our classes are filled with exercises and activities which prompt the students to do the thing they are learning about, right away, from the first moment of the first class meeting. This in turn encourages students to develop their own love for the subject matter by intrinsically infusing it with their own self-expression and unique perspective. By the time they are done with the class, whether it be animation, or game design, or drawing, or anything, students will have an intimate, hands on knowing (not just understanding) of how to do express themselves in that medium. 

Finally, this inspires a life-long love of not only the subject matter, but of learning itself.