Inlet

Theory

Two ideas.

That's the whole company. The products are just places to use them.

First: a mind can do more than remember.

Bloom named six verbs. Remember. Understand. Apply. Analyze. Evaluate. Create.

School often stops at the first. Software usually does too.

Second: difficulty has a middle. Too easy, you leave. Too hard, you leave.

A computer can hold you in the gap.

Language is where we started. It is not where we stop.

  • Six objects in a row: a pebble, a seed, a tool, a cut fruit, a scale, a brush.

    Bloom's six verbs

    A map of what you can ask a person to do. Not a trophy case.

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  • A person walking teal stepping stones between an empty field and a cliff.

    The sweet spot of difficulty

    Right-size the next step. That is what the computer is for.

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