Complementary Exercises and Local Knowledge

[mjptak]

I'm opening this up to foster discussion and ideas of how to promote/manage/inspire/coordinate local exercise development using the Khan Academy Exercise framework. The most creative examples off of the KA servers for the moment are at www.daveconservatoire.org based in Great Britain. There are a number of others on the web translating the math exercises. However, these exercises are specific to music and make use of things like png and sound files. These can enhance the experience and potentially lower the bar for initial exercise development but some basic organization of the content files should perhaps be formulated. Promoting participant exercise (and video) development will give local teachers both a voice in and a direct attachment to the KA and KA Lite effort.

More prototype examples are available at www.we4dkids.com and hopefully at other sites shared by participants in this issue. My own creations were sparked by a desire to guide my own teenagers in their applied learning....a definite work in progress.

This conversation was stared here:

learningequality/ka-lite#39

[mjptak]

This is an excerpt from the read.me file out at the Khan Academy Exercise Github Repository.

"This framework supports over 450 of our current math exercises including updated versions of many exercises Sal built for his cousins before he made his first video! New exercises on Khan Academy, however, are now written by many content experts using Perseus and stored in our datastore as individual questions."

This would appear to have some major ramifications for KA Lite and perhaps LEX as well.

[bcipolli]

Yup! We're looking for time/volunteers/funding to integrate that new framework!

[mjptak]

At this point it appears that access into that questions database on KA is
cut off from the world...probably inevitable but it was a good run.

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Ben Cipollini notifications@github.comwrote:

Yup! We're looking for time/volunteers/funding to integrate that new
framework!

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[bcipolli]

We'll see, but I don't believe so. They're committed to open license, and we have good connections with them. The framework is to simplify authoring of the individual questions. So, I believe it won't be a problem... hopefully we'll see soon!

[jamalex]

It looks like the api does support querying for Perseus question data; it's probably just not documented yet; e.g. https://www.khanacademy.org/api/v1/user/exercises/beginners-guide-to-medieval-art/problems/2/assessment_item

@spicyj -- any idea what the licensing is on Perseus question content?

[mjptak]

Thanx Jamie. I've been digging around in Perseus a bit inspired by all the
great CCSS stuff much of which includes image files. Exciting
possibilities for both Khan Academy and PhaseII of LearningEquality.

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Jamie Alexandre
notifications@github.comwrote:

It looks like the api does support querying for Perseus question data;
it's probably just not documented yet; e.g.
https://www.khanacademy.org/api/v1/user/exercises/beginners-guide-to-medieval-art/problems/2/assessment_item

@spicyj https://github.com/spicyj -- any idea what the licensing is on
Perseus question content?

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[sophiebits]

@jamalex Pretty sure all of our in-house content is still CC BY-NC-SA but we may have content from partners that isn't. Let me know when you guys are ready to bring the questions in and we can help you figure stuff out.

[mjptak]

The reported demise of OLPC got me thinking again about putting a subset of the exercises in a format that would read on something that is NOT going away in Africa....Cell phone screens. There are already a small subset of exercises that can be easily adapted to the phone but it might be nice to keep track of which ones and deliver that set as an option for long tuk tuk, matatu or dala dala rides....or even just the BART or CTA.