Our second run on our Khan Academy Program was different in many ways
from the Pilot. To start with, we would be dealing with around 50
children, which is about half the students we had last time around.
Whoever, we would be starting with only two volunteer tutors, Eduardo
and myself. (Although we eventually did have another part-time
volunteer called Gabriela).
After having some ordeals with the children who came to us for the
very first time or the ones who were returning who had forgotten their
account names or passwords (or both!) we introduced them to some
things they had never seen: The Learning Dashboard and the Spanish
Beta Site.
I feel both of them were great tools, the Spanish Beta site, while
very far from Perfect just yet, was much better than the Google
Translate that we used before. Since there were only two tutors,
having the site in the children's native language was extremely
helpful. The Dashboard, including the Pre-Test and the Grade division
of learning modules, were also very convenient tools for us to find
and work on the holes in all of the students' knowledge. However, we
found it very interesting that most if not all of the children were
pointed towards practicing the Line Chart modules.
The program this time proceeded smoothly, not to mention we received a
donation from a local Software business for 5 new computers which make
us very excited for the future.
