· 7 min read
What a parent sees, and what stays with the child
The parent screen is the easiest place to spoil this product. What it shows, what it does not show, and how to start the evening without an interrogation.
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Ideas about learning, practice and creating courses.
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Why a percent of you is the wrong number
A bar that says you are thirty seven percent ready counts pages turned, not learning. What EvoluteMe says in words instead, and where a percent is useful.
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· 7 min read
Why we count work instead of courses
A plan with twelve courses a month is unfair both to someone who built three and to someone who rebuilt one twenty times. What we count instead, and why.
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· 6 min read
Why voice works on top of the lesson
Our first voice mode was a separate screen, and it failed on a quiet train. What we changed, what voice will not do, and why it never switches itself on.
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How three words turn into forty tasks
You type three words and get forty tasks. Where each task comes from, and why the wrong answers in the children's mode are chosen with care.
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Why the workshop shows the outline before it builds the course
A program that extracts text from a forty page manual makes errors nobody notices. So we first lay your file out by topics and write nothing until you say so.
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· 6 min read
Why we keep courses and drills apart
A course has an end and a drill has a daily rhythm. Combining them breaks both. What went wrong when we tried, and how the two connect now.
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Why ten minutes beats a long evening
Two of us learned the same thing at the same time, one on Saturday mornings and one in ten minutes after lunch. What we saw, and what it changed in the product.
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How the check finds what you already know
The check is the one place in EvoluteMe where the mentor does not help. Why hints are off, what a confirmed skill gives you, and what the check cannot see.
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What happens in your first two minutes
Between "I want to move into development" and the first task there are two questions, a guess about you, and a check. What each of them is for.
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· 5 min read
Why we created EvoluteMe
Two everyday situations showed us that learning should begin with the person: their experience, knowledge and goal.
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