Earlier in the year we supported wikipedia. Thinking about what (who) is making the kind of difference that we believe in, we decided to support Khan Academy.
Later in the day I went back to Khan Academy. I had used their Javascipt lesson with students for the Computer Science Education week's "Hour of Code". The students really liked it.
The KA home screen had a one minute video of Sal Khan introducing KA. When I clicked done it put me into the math series.
I took a few lessons in the sequence the software suggested and then quit for a while. When I signed on again and looked at my dashboard, I felt good about the progress I had made.
I was given a choice of direction. This is the way I believe learning MUST be. Great on positive reinforcement that progress is being made. Badges for each success and a dashboard here I see what I've mastered, what I am still working on and what I have left to conquer. No penalty for not knowing or making a mistake.
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