Activity 3 - Khan Academy
Khan Academy is a self-learning academic platform. It allows students to learn anywhere and anytime on the web. It is a kind of MOOC (Massive Open Online Course). Khan Academy is a free platform, students do not have to pay. Khan Academy can even be used in the classroom.
Every student is given a series of accomplishment on the interface. It includes badgets activity, focus and Skill Progress. Students can monitor their learning progress through it. Skill Progress shows in details what sub-topic or specific subject area a student has completed.
Khan Academy offers subjects like Maths, Science, Humanities, Economics and Finance. Use Maths as an example, basically it follows the curriculum of US, from Grade 3 to 8. Also students can select different specific topic to learn, e.g. Algebra, geometry, etc. It would be started by a placement test to examine students’’ initial standard, so that the learning progress can be track accurately.
Khan Academy uses a lot of videos in online tutorial. These videos are being stored in YouTube. For a specific learning topic, students will go through a series of steps. It begins with introduction of the topic which is being delivered in video storytelling basis. With the video student would be more easy to understand the topic and be able to carryon working with the practices exercise.
Khan Academy not only provide you the game to play but also encourage you to mess up the code of the game and to write your own game. It is a very good practice of programming and you can also learn from the online videos.
Every student is given a series of accomplishment on the interface. It includes badgets activity, focus and Skill Progress. Students can monitor their learning progress through it. Skill Progress shows in details what sub-topic or specific subject area a student has completed.
Khan Academy offers subjects like Maths, Science, Humanities, Economics and Finance. Use Maths as an example, basically it follows the curriculum of US, from Grade 3 to 8. Also students can select different specific topic to learn, e.g. Algebra, geometry, etc. It would be started by a placement test to examine students’’ initial standard, so that the learning progress can be track accurately.
Khan Academy uses a lot of videos in online tutorial. These videos are being stored in YouTube. For a specific learning topic, students will go through a series of steps. It begins with introduction of the topic which is being delivered in video storytelling basis. With the video student would be more easy to understand the topic and be able to carryon working with the practices exercise.
Khan Academy not only provide you the game to play but also encourage you to mess up the code of the game and to write your own game. It is a very good practice of programming and you can also learn from the online videos.