On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Walter Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 3:42 AM, Tony Anderson <<a href="mailto:tony_anderson@usa.net">tony_anderson@usa.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> The Khan Academy web site (<a href="http://www.khanacademy.org/" target="_blank">http://www.khanacademy.org/</a>) is announcing today<br>
> a 'playlist' on computer science. It appears to be an introduction to<br>
> programming based on Python!<br>
<br>
</div>The funny thing is that many of the examples are also in the Turtle<br>
Art examples list :)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes and also in Etoys, Scratch, etc.</div><div><br></div><div><img src="https://encrypted-tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS7b-P295QHLUHQeUoruVi8g_yQzrT7R1i7bZNL27sP4V5-gJET-A"> </div>
<div><font size="4">But they have one thing you haven't got ...</font></div><div><br></div><div>Okay more than one:</div><div><ul><li>A nice set of short videos to walk you through using these tools to learn/introduce/explain the concepts</li>
<li>A tool to let you try to solve a problem and give you feedback as to whether you got it right or wrong</li><li>Hints when you don't get the answer</li><li>Social Network tools so a group of people can "learn together" and support "collaboritve floundering" (as mentioned by Mark Guzdial <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#inbox/1392a45cbc33615f">here</a>)<br>
</li></ul><div><br></div></div><div>The above might make good GSoC projects, sort of a Udacity using the excellent tools to learn with in Sugar.</div><div><br></div><div>Stephen</div></div>