Our book reader allows kids to follow along with recorded audio narration or read on their own across our fiction, non-fiction, and fiction leveled books. I wish you happiness and time to think for yourself. Kids can also learn independently in the Khan Academy Kids Librarya curated collection of activities, books, videos, and coloring pages. As hardware becomes less expensive due to robotic manufacturing, asking students to purchase "lab kits" seems reasonable. Expanding this into electronics using Arduino with emulators, FreeCAD for 3D parametric design, and creation/use of design slicing programs for the various forms of manufacturing technology might be a good thing as well. C and its offspring should be taught for the people who want to program the world around them. Java and similar programming languages are nice for people who love the screen. The information is out there, but to have Khan Academy put it all together in one virtual location would kick the tyrants butt down the hallway and out of the castle. I am learning about C by reading books available free from Google Books and Amazon, that I read on my phone and tablet. I am now learning to program Arduino devices, which are affordable. Some of the components I need are Arduino based, programmable in the C, C++, and Python Languages. I then wanted to design my own printable objects and discovered FreeCAD, which completely blew me away (that it is a free, open source program) having worked in the commercial construction industry for nearly a decade. I knew very little about Arduino and all its options/capabilities. It started when I purchased a RepRap design 3D printer. I am almost 50 years old and am mentally scrambling to cram as much of this information in my head as I can before my family is left behind the technological curve. I must point out that in the last 20 years (the last 10-15 specifically) the development and growth of the open source robotics, CNC, and 3D printing industry has begun to take hold. I haven't had extra money to help out the cause, but have spread the name and idea of KA through word of mouth for years. I have witnessed the growth of Khan Academy from a startup to its current form. As an old user of KA I am aware of the challenges with creating content for the C, C++, so on and so forth languages.
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