The kids open dictionary has produced many interesting statistics to examine. The first stage of producing a word list led to a look at how many words are in a “good” dictionary, how many words have gone out of common
Can you improve these explanations of math problems?
This is a very interesting project that looks at the use of mass collaboration as a tool for education. Specifically, it is a study that takes various math problems using the Pythagorean Theorem and lets users rate and then improve
“What is open?” redux
We spent a lot of time thinking about the license for the Kids Open Dictionary. Ultimately, we decided on public domain license, because we want this to be as easily usable by as many people as possible. After announcing the
Big week for the open dictionary
We’ve had a lot of new activity at the Kids Open Dictionary this week, largely because of several posts others have written about it. New people have been coming to the site every day, adding words, creating glossaries, and helping
Reflections on language
The Kids Open Dictionary has given me many opportunities to reflect on our language. A hundred years ago, our world was much more male-centric. (I know this sounds obvious.) Here are some words that weren’t in the dictionary then: spokesperson,