I'm Ari Bader-Natal. I design, build, and operate online learning environments that help people gain access to new opportunities and create new futures.
Before this, I served as Chief Learning Scientist at Minerva Project. I joined Minerva as Employee #1 in 2012, and spent 7 years creating new tools to support learning and teaching, including Minerva's first Active Learning Forum, tools for formative assessment, and collaborative curriculum authoring system.
In 2010, I built Studio Sketchpad, a place for creative coders to collaboratively create interactive animations in Processing (and later P5.js.) In addition to serving as a venue for informal learning, Sketchpad has been used by 100+ universities, high schools, and coding workshops. Notably, this service has been operating and offered at no cost for 15 years.
You could describe my work as "learning engineering."
- Web: Sideways – Shift perspective. Unlock creativity.
- Repo: hotheadhacker/no-as-a-service
- Repo: github/spec-kit
- Repo: fiberplane/mcp-lite
- Repo: microsoft/amplifier
- Repo: obra/superpowers-skills
- Repo: obra/superpowers
- Repo: joseairosa/recall
- Repo: ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp
- Web: Vibe engineering
- Web: A cartoonist’s review of AI art – The Oatmeal
- Repo: learning-commons-org/knowledge-graph
- More: favorites.aribadernatal.com
September 2024
Bader-Natal, A.
Bader-Natal, A., Fost, J., and Genone, J.
Katzman, J., Regan, M., and Bader-Natal, A.
Levitt, R., Bader-Natal, A., and Chandler, V.
Bader-Natal, A., Lotze, T., and Furr, D.
Bader-Natal, A. and Lotze, T.
Patent pending
U.S. Patent 10,666,696
U.S. Patent 10,541,824
U.S. Patent 9,935,987
U.S. Patent 9,674,243
U.S. Patent 9,578,073
U.S. Patent 9,961,119
