How this term shows up in the material In this channel's captured material, mastery-based learning appears through the firsthand account of a 17-year-old student at an AI-powered school, where it describes how the school organizes learning around demonstrating mastery rather than moving through a fixed schedule. The student's account is the sole source for how the term is used here: it names the model of his school and frames how he actually uses AI day to day while progressing through it. In the related topic discussion, the term is paired with the phrase “an AI-native school,” signaling that in this material mastery-based learning and AI-native schooling are presented together as a single way of organizing education. Keep that framing in mind when you explore the video: the term refers to the school's model as the student describes living inside it — not to any general educational theory imported from outside the source.