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.
I am co-founder and CTO at Sparkwise. Sparkwise radically scales engaging live group learning by letting people connect, solve challenges, and practice skills together in tech-powered small groups. Check us out at sparkwise.co.
From 2019-2021, I served as the founding CTO at Calbright College.
Calbright is a fully-online competency-based college in the California Community Colleges system designed for working adults who lack easy access to traditional forms of higher education.
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 for over 14 years.
You could describe my work as "learning engineering."
- Web: Request an eSignature on PDF files
- Repo: cloudflare/workers-mcp
- Liked video: “- YouTube”
- Web: Just a moment…
- Liked video: “Ken Stanley’s talk on Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned”
- Repo: bluesky-social/pds
- Repo: threepointone/durable-scheduler
- Web: 5-Day Gen AI Intensive Course with Google Learn Guide
- Web: Technology Quotes Activity — Civics of Technology
- Web: Building Bluesky: a Distributed Social Network (Real-World Engineering Challenges)
- Web: Introducing Extendable Articles
- Web: 40 questions to ask yourself every year
- More: favorites.aribadernatal.com
2021-now
2019-2021
2012-2019
2010-2015
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2012
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March 2024
February 2016
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