Andy MatuschakVerified account

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Wonder, blunder, salve, solve! Exploring empowering future possibilities in education with team , where I lead early product development. Ex-.

San Francisco, CA
Joined November 2007

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    🔭 Help explore and create solutions to open problems in education! Seeking invention-oriented designers and technologists to join our future-facing product team! See some of our values in action:

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  2. I'm so thrilled that has synthesized many of his observations on serious use of Anki as part of his creative work: It's become a very powerful tool in my life, but I've only taken the first few steps here. Learning how to learn! 🔰

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  3. Jul 3

    I love the multiple levels of reading engagement this approach suggests: 1. Read examples of function execution 2. Change example inputs, see consequences 3. Read associated code, connect to example output 4. Modify code, see how output changes

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  4. Jul 3

    Wrestling with a draft of a research report, realized that I think it actually might want to be a mini comic book? Printed it out, cut it up, and it’s looking better than prose…

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  5. Jun 30

    I'm left wondering: how do the dynamics of *learning* relate to this hypothetical knowledge dynamics pipeline? How related are those dynamics to the problems of syntopic reading and thinking? I'd suggest atomized knowledge isn't understanding—and we ultimately want understanding.

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  6. Jun 30

    🤔 argues that the "knowledge dynamics" problems Atkinson et al pursued with HyperCard entail amplifying both creation ("tools for thought") as well as assessment/distribution—and that the latter are perhaps the more immediate bottleneck:

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  7. Jun 27

    I’m very excited about the challenge of creating support structures for researchers operating outside traditional institutions. Nadia’s been a thoughtful contributor in conversation on this topic; grateful she’s sharing more broadly!

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  8. Jun 24

    At work, we've already used this kind of ink markup in two neat ways: 1. Annotating quoted text inline with connections to the quoting document's line of reasoning (can't share example unfortunately). 2. Deliberately lo-fi metacommentary layer (e.g. see image)

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  9. Jun 24

    Digital ink is so much more expressive than the impoverished "highlight / add note" interactions available in all e-readers. Many let you draw on documents (though not books), but I've never seen any connect those scribbles meaningfully to the underlying text.

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  10. Jun 24

    Giddy at an experimental new feature in Pages: add annotations and marginalia in digital ink and they're anchored to the associated text regions. Textual edits preserve your marks! I'd love this kind of modality-crossing interaction in my reading software.

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  11. Jun 23

    Saturday afternoon vibes at the library. So hard to get one’s hands on a copy of Computer Lib / Dream Machines!

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  12. Jun 20

    Inspired by Fish a few years ago, wrote a designed-for-mobile mixed-media story about Goya. Today we figured out how to hack Keynote’s export feature so that he could finally publish it! (Psst Nick please do a metablog on this so others make more!)

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  13. Jun 20

    I’m thrilled this strange essay is back! I think about it routinely. Look at your fish. Look at your fish. Look at your fish.

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  14. Jun 19

    On co-constructing activities over artificially real-worldifying routine learning tasks, : "We tend to overrate student interest in doing fake work in the real world and to very much underrate student interest in doing real work in the fake world."

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  15. Jun 19

    Great video & wonderful folklore from , e.g. “You don’t have a clear idea of what it’s going to be when you start: you have an inkling, and then each step tells you what the next step is. You don’t know what the next step is until you’ve gotten to a certain point.”

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  16. Jun 18

    I found this “difficult parts” exercise really helpful for considering how to design systems to support specific values. Translating from values to specific difficult actions is surprisingly hard in many cases; attempting it seems to reliably generate insights.

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  17. Retweeted
    Jun 13

    ✏ Writing with forces you to write for 5 minutes straight. If you stop typing, it deletes everything. Great cure for writers block. I also use it to just dump my thoughts on a topic. Every time I'm surprised how clarifying it is.

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  18. Jun 13

    I was feeling pretty dispirited in the midst of a literature review on automatic essay scoring systems (👎), but this paper on an ✨ adversarial essay writing contest ✨ fooling the scoring system totally made my day.

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  19. Jun 13

    Astonishing and ominous—and inevitable given the apparently available signal. Culturally, it's fascinating that the paper has zero mention of the affective content of this work or its sociological implications. Is it just a norm? Or would reviewers balk?

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  20. Jun 11

    Marilyn’s approach to understanding student thought is really special. I especially love that she’s working to document and systematize the method: many in edu seem to view it as an ultra-expert technique now, which is limiting.

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  21. Retweeted
    Jun 9

    I wrote a sorting function that only works when you're looking at it:

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