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Re:Ask HN: How Do You Learn? by sitkack on Saturday September 11, 2021 @07:32PM (#28497100)
This is really cool, https://github.com/oppia/oppia

Reminds me a bit of HyperCard. What is your interest in Oppia? I dabble in these things, but was thinking of working on some shared "decks" with my kid.

Re:Ask HN: How Do You Learn? by rahimnathwani on Saturday September 11, 2021 @09:46PM (#28497875)
I'm interested in anything that has the potential to improve education, especially if it can do it at scale.

I'm not involved with the Oppia foundation, but I know Sean from my time at Google.

I started creating an exploration about accounting at https://www.oppia.org/explore/pepGU0qbyoUm but it's not complete and I haven't improved it since I created it.

Re:Ask HN: How Do You Learn? by sitkack on Monday September 13, 2021 @04:04PM (#28516098)
Following through your oppia quiz, it reminds me of interactive fiction. I could see one being used for the other here.

http://inform7.com/

https://blogs.bl.uk/english-and-drama/2020/04/writing-tools-...

Re:Ask HN: How Do You Learn? by rahimnathwani on Monday September 13, 2021 @04:56PM (#28516768)
In the exploration I linked, the only types of interaction offered to the learner were either ok/proceed, or 'answer this textual multiple choice question'. This may make it seem like Oppia doesn't do much more than software for interactive fiction.

BUT Oppia has lots of other interaction types: https://github.com/oppia/oppia/tree/develop/extensions/inter...

For example, you can input music notes: https://github.com/oppia/oppia/issues/4842

Or ask the learner to enter a fraction, or to sort some objects.

Re:Ask HN: How Do You Learn? by sitkack on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @09:42PM (#28534155)
There are more similarity between things like Oppia and interactive fiction, I don't see them at odds. It is is wonderful that Oppia has a musical notation interface.

If you zoom out far enough, everything could be considered a quiz.

This will all be on the test.