What KidsTeachingKids Looks Like
Imagine that your daughter, in London, is having a problem understanding how to divide fractions. She needs help, but you are not home.
Opening her Internet browser, she links to KidsTeachingKids, she clicks on “Math,” then “Division,” then “Fractions.”
A video window opens showing a student your daughter’s age in Australia with a multimedia video explaining the unique strategy she developed for dividing fractions, along with a chart, mind-map and explanation. Hyperlinks to other explanations and other valuable tools are also on the web page.
KTK is a portal to educational videos, organized taxonomically. It will have a method for "Liking" particular videos and voting on the best in category. The videos will be stored on a video server. KTK will provide links into stored videos and index the videos to make them easy to find by kids looking for help on specific problems, whether academic or social.
KidsTeachingKids is an intercultural educational program empowering children to share their unique learning strategies, academic skills, and life’s lessons with their peers through Internet-delivered video, as an example, tutoring in science and mathematics.
KidsTeachingKids will:
Opening her Internet browser, she links to KidsTeachingKids, she clicks on “Math,” then “Division,” then “Fractions.”
A video window opens showing a student your daughter’s age in Australia with a multimedia video explaining the unique strategy she developed for dividing fractions, along with a chart, mind-map and explanation. Hyperlinks to other explanations and other valuable tools are also on the web page.
KTK is a portal to educational videos, organized taxonomically. It will have a method for "Liking" particular videos and voting on the best in category. The videos will be stored on a video server. KTK will provide links into stored videos and index the videos to make them easy to find by kids looking for help on specific problems, whether academic or social.
KidsTeachingKids is an intercultural educational program empowering children to share their unique learning strategies, academic skills, and life’s lessons with their peers through Internet-delivered video, as an example, tutoring in science and mathematics.
KidsTeachingKids will:
- Build a web-based video platform that empowers kids to teach other kids educational subjects via compelling video content.
- Provide access to a vast selection of indexed free videos for kids at home and for teachers to use in classrooms, covering all topics and standards being studied (Math, Science, Reading, Music, Arts, etc.).
- Design a unique, elegant, and intuitive user experience targeted for K-12 engagement and learning.
- Provide parental safeguards to ensure that parents are made aware of site registration and posts.
- Build in community features, such as a ratings system, so kids can select the most useful videos for a given subject or problem.
- Promote competitions and incentives for students to create, share, view, and rate videos.
- Enable tracking and monitoring to track certain site activity and to evaluate how kids are making progress towards learning goals and mastering subject matter.
- Cross-reference videos back to specific topics and problems in major textbooks and curricula.
- Connect educational institutions and students throughout the world.
- Integrate the site’s content with other digitial platforms, such as mobile phones and Facebook.