Khan Academy Computer Science Launch. Khan Academy Enters Next Era With iPad App. Khan Academy, the wildly popular YouTube lecture series, has launched its free, new iPad app in Apple's store.
The enhanced version of Khan Academy includes time-syncing between devices--no Internet connection required--an interactive transcript of the lectures for easy searching, and a handy scrubber for moving between parts of the lectures. Perhaps more importantly, now that more schools have begun adopting Khan's lectures for their own classrooms, the iPad app could possibly replace or supplement textbooks, saving cash-strapped schools and students a lot of money. The major benefit of the app is offline learning. "If you're going on a road trip or if you're taking mass transit and you don't have cell service, or whatever, you can get the content," says Khan Academy Lead Designer Jason Rosoff.
The iPad frees Khan Academy from the constraints of a laptop and Internet connection. Last, just like a textbook, users flip back and forth between different parts of the content. Khan Academy Launches The Future of Computer Science Education. As educators struggle to motivate more students to take up technology-related majors, breakout online education startup, Khan Academy, has a novel approach.
“Computer Science is an intensely creative field,” says Shantanu Sinha, President of Khan Academy, which gave TechCrunch an exclusive look at their brand new education portal that teaches Computer Science fundamentals through interactive drawing. “We really wanted to focus on creating something that could inspire young children, and get them excited and motivated to explore CS further.” The portal’s interactive design is a major evolutionary step for a website that has since been almost entirely based on YouTube lectures (with over 178 million views). I rarely get excited about online education, which often just recycles our antiquated education system into a digital format, but the new Khan Academy Computer Science project is beyond impressive.
The Scope Design and Pedagogy. Curious as to how many people use QR codes in education...how are you using them? Google Input Tools Offers Language Onscreen Keyboards. If you ever had to work on a PC in a foreign country that is not your own, you may have noticed that the keyboard layout is not identical to keyboards that you are used to working with.
This can be resolved rather quickly if you have enough rights on the PC to change the keyboard layout. If you cannot, you are stuck with the default layout that may not provide access to all the keys that you require for your work. And while you can use Alt-Num codes to print the keys you need on the screen, it is something that slows down the work flow considerable. Google Input Tools for the Chrome web browser offer an alternative for users of the Internet browser.
The extension provides access to more than 90 different onscreen keyboards right in the browser. Chrome users who have installed the extension need to first add languages that they want access to in the extension options. Just select a language first and then one of the available keyboard layouts for that language. Teachers' Quick Guide on The Use of Games in Education. Online gaming plays a major part in most of young people's lives.
The gaming trend that started off as a sole leisure activity a couple of years ago is now integrated into the mainstream and more and more people are using them on everyday basis.Game developers and business corporations are generating billions of revenues out of their sales .In March 2008, a government-funded report from DCSF indicated that sales of games for the under 12 age group represented nearly three quarters of the total UK games market. 87 % of 5-16 year old have a game's console at home, and the enormous success of the Nintendo Wii has shown that new technologies can reach and hold audiences never expected to enjoy playing online or computer games. Regardless of the negative features associated with gaming such as frivolity, violence and mindlessness, games do have a growing potential in education. The main Factors behind the raise of Digital Game-Based Learning What makes a learning game ? Sign In.