Group items tagged

Short videos that capture the math and science of real world jobs. Well done examples that are supported with small project based lessons. A subscription site that allows non-subscribers to view a limited number of videos.

This blog post links to some video lessons for AP calc classes. It also refers to Karl Fisch's youtube lessons and the increasingly popular Khan Academy app lessons. What is interesting is the idea of using the video lessons as assigned homework (watching taking notes- i.e. lecture) while the class time becomes strictly problem solving work and project based learning. I am really fond of this idea and would be interested to see what the rest of your thoughts and comments are.

Kodu is an icon-based development environment, requiring no programming skills but teaching some of the basics of computational thinking and used to build games for PC and Xbox