Educational Technology: Crash Course Computer Science #39

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Today we’re going to go a little meta and talk about how computer science can support learning with educational technology. We here at Crash Course are big fans of interactive in-class learning and hands-on experiences, but we also believe in the additive power of educational technology inside and outside the classroom from the Internet itself and Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs to AI driven intelligent tutoring systems and virtual reality.

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  3. And yet, the majority of the world's education systems are stuck in the 1910's era, sometimes worse. This goes to show that its not enough to invent technology that brings the potential solution to a problem, you also have to implement the solution. I'm not sure why change is so slow, but this problem (education) is certainly slowing humanity's evolution overall.

  5. I never thought I’d enjoy computer stuff, but watching your series has made me excited to learn more. With this series, I watched each video twice. Some more than twice, if I wasn’t getting it. So far I’ve loved it. Will try some free code camp and code academy to learn some languages, watch that free Harvard intro to CS lecture series here on YouTube (it’s not opening up again to take on edX until next year) and then I think code academy’s Computer Science path. And then maybe full stack development through them or the Odin Project. It’s exciting.

  17. And with that I have to say Mastering (pick one) Engineering/Chemestry/Mathamatics from Pearsons is an example of how to NOT set up your education technology.
    One might even suggest it is designed more to sabotage Ed Tech in order to keep textbooks in demand.

  23. At 7:48 she uses ‘she’ as an impersonal pronoun. Ever since the English language evolved the impersonal pronoun has been ‘he’. As far as I am aware, this is also the case in all other languages. With feminism in the latter half of the last century, the unspontaneous sounding ‘she’ was adopted in academic circles, especially in the humanities. Thus, into a very simple, tiny word that is normally not even a stressed part of the sentence was insinuated an agenda. Whatever the topic, one’s mind had to be drawn to a gender issue. However, language was being made to reflect a welcome change in society, one where men and women should have equal rights and responsibilities. This necessarily involves shedding such former values governing inter-gender relations as ‘sail before steam’ (ladies first), and women taking care of the family, as no longer applicable. It involves sharing 50/50 the cooking and cleaning, the restaurant bills, women inviting out men as well as the reverse, providing equally the necessary finances for supporting the family and having 50/50 custody over children in the case of divorce. With this change, it has been common among male academics to use ‘she’ as an impersonal pronoun. This really does sound contrived, but might be acceptable if women used ’he’: after all, the best relationships are based on putting one’s partner before oneself. However, women, in the legitimate pursuit of such change as allows them to assume an equally active role in society use ‘she’. So perhaps it’s best to regard a word that is less than a four letter word as being as inoffensive as it is short, and those silly male academics who emasculate themselves by remaining stuck to such old world values as ‘ladies first in an age when women want to steam forwards should realise that it is at least as appropriate for men to use ‘he’ as it is for women to use ‘she’.

  25. The only complaint I have with this entire series is that the tips in this EdTech episode for writing notes and following examples yourself would have been really useful earlier on!

  31. carrie i have learned a lot from you… just love and thanx. For the wonderfull job you have done.. thank you thank you thanks a lot and lot.
    i have watched all videos of yours from abacus till robot… learned every bit from scratch. No doubt is in my mind . You have cleared all my doubt.. .thanx once again. Gain Knowledge . Be happy. God Bless You.

  33. When I was in high-school, I once wrote a paper about a new way to educate students by turning a curriculum into a sort of Roleplaying/Puzzle/Exploration game in terms of non-linear progression and teaching mechanics, only a bit more abstract. It was heavily inspired by my favorite MMO at the time, EVE Online. Unfortunately, I lost that paper a long time ago.

    You should look up the channel Extra Credits, as well as the show Digressing and Sidequesting (which is under the umbrella of The Game Theorists). The former is a channel dealing primarily with the principles of Game Design, but has an episode regarding "Gamifying Education" / "Gamification of Education". The latter, meanwhile, has an episode about Super Metroid, and how it is a shining example of how a well-designed game can effectively teach players through their design, and without using any words.

  39. I dealt with this type of tech in an accounting class. Wasn't very well developed. You had to put exact answers even if there was more than one way of entering your answer. These methods work well with scientific studies like algebra, but are total trash with fill in the blank type questions or essay answers.

  53. How can we use technology to learn if most schools, including mine, don't even allow the use of Kindles. Seriously, I'm pretty sure they're gonna ban even smart watches next! I literally can't use Khan Academy.

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