John Resig: Redefining the Introduction to Computer Science at Khan Academy
I sat my 5-year-old daughter down in front of the first drawing tutorial today (Introduction to Drawing). I let her watch the video, then asked her some questions to test her comprehension. Before I could too many questions out she blurted "I want to build a house," and off we went.<p>I learned a few things:<p>1. We seriously need to work on her typing skills. We practice typing once a week but I think I need to increase that.<p>2. I need to go out and buy a smaller mouse to fit her hand.<p>3. She immediately understood functions and parameters, which, honestly, was all I really wanted her to get out of this.<p>4. The sliders are <i>critical</i>. She has never seen a coordinate system, but the sliders allow her to play around with location without completely understanding what the numbers represent.<p>5. At this age, she was engaged because she could draw things (she had a house worked out in about 15 minutes, which was also the limit of her attention span). I'm not always a fan of gaming things up to make them more palatable, but it definitely worked here.