Carnegie Learning Assistment Interface

Matthew Easterday Santa Rosa, CA mwe@andrew.cmu.edu Psychology and Mathematics at Reed College, Computer Science at U. Washington and HCI with a focus on educational technology at Carnegie Mellon.

While Matthew often claims to be a robotics student, in real life he is actually a
dedicated practitioner of HCI process, especially as applied to education, systems
thinking and activism.

Before coming to Carngie Mellon Matt worked in Peace Corps Mongolia, where he
initiated a national network of after-school clubs to teach “Life Skills,” and his
book of lesson plans on critical thinking and debate is now being adopted by the
Mongolian Ministry of Education. At the local level, he taught Computers and
English at a Mongolian secondary school and helped start the school’s small dairy
business.

Psychology and Mathematics at Reed College, Computer Science at U. Washington
and HCI with a focus on educational technology at Carnegie Mellon.
While Matthew often claims to be a robotics student, in real life he is actually a
dedicated practitioner of HCI process, especially as applied to education, systems
thinking and activism.

More recently, he’s applied his HCI skills to the redesign of Carnegie Mellon’s
Technology Consulting in the Community class which leads computer science
undergraduate students through a semester-long technology consultation with
Pittsburgh-area non-profits. He’s also built a networked game for teaching
Systems Thinking and designed a wearable computer system and process for
allowing informed political discussion at outdoor protest rallies. Matt funds
his learning addiction by developing the “Causality Lab” software used to teach
causal and statistical learning to future social scientists at Carnegie Mellon and
other quality learning zones across the country.