[IAEP] Khan Academy computer science

[Walter Bender]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Steve Thomas <sthomas1 at gosargon.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 3:42 AM, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > The Khan Academy web site (http://www.khanacademy.org/) is announcing
>> today
>> > a 'playlist' on computer science. It appears to be an introduction to
>> > programming based on Python!
>>
>> The funny thing is that many of the examples are also in the Turtle
>> Art examples list :)
>>
>
> Yes and also in Etoys, Scratch, etc.
>
>
> But they have one thing you haven't got ...
>
> Okay more than one:
>
>    - A nice set of short videos to walk you through using these tools to
>    learn/introduce/explain the concepts
>
> Agreed. Be nice to have some more videos.

>
>    - A tool to let you try to solve a problem and give you feedback as to
>    whether you got it right or wrong
>
> Isn't that exactly what TurltleArt, Etoys and Scratch are: tools that give
you feedback?

>
>    - Hints when you don't get the answer
>
> Turtle Confusion and Turtle Amazonas have hints. But in general, we don't
do this. In part, because in general, we don't present problems in that
have explicit answers.

>
>    - Social Network tools so a group of people can "learn together" and
>    support "collaboritve floundering" (as mentioned by Mark Guzdial here<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#inbox/1392a45cbc33615f>
>    )
>
> When you "share" Turtle Art, you can share code snippets, outputs, chats,
etc. But it is a peer-to-peer collaboration.

>
>    -
>
>
> The above might make good GSoC projects, sort of a Udacity using the
> excellent tools to learn with in Sugar.
>

For sure!!

>
> Stephen
>



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Walter Bender
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