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Name: Dr Ken Kahn
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 Ken Kahn, earned his doctorate in computer science from MIT. He has spent over 30 years as a researcher in programming languages, computer animation, and programming systems for children. He has been a faculty member at MIT, University of Stockholm, and Uppsala University. For over eight years he was a researcher at Xerox PARC. In 1992, Ken founded Animated Programs whose mission is to make computer programming child's play. He received a patent covering the underlying technology of ToonTalk (US Patent Number 5,517,663). At the London Knowledge Lab he worked on WebLabs and the BBC Digitial Curriculum projects. At Oxford University he recently led the Constructing2Learn project. He is currently participating in the ReMath and MiGen projects. He is also leading a project called Modelling4All at Oxford University.
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LKL News

Ken Kahn is featured in the following news items:
 
DateTitle
Tuesday, 01 July 2008Open Evening 2008
Wednesday, 05 March 2008Darren Pearce
Tuesday, 13 March 2007TLRP Research Award

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LKL Events

List of events at the London Knowledge Lab with Ken Kahn:
 
DateTitle
Wednesday, 16 November 2011A bottom-up distributed way of planting a laptop seed in West Papua
Tuesday, 04 July 2006LAMS V2 Beta Launch and Workshop
Monday, 24 April 2006Learning by Programming Games Without Knowing How to Program
Wednesday, 25 January 2006From ICT to TRICC: culture and representation: the missing link(s)
Wednesday, 13 July 2005Making infinity concrete by programming never-ending processes

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LKL Research

Ken Kahn is participating in the following LKL research projects:
(bold = current)
Title
A space travel games construction kit
Metafora: Learning to learn together
MiGen: Intelligent Support for Mathematical Generalisation
ReMATH: Representing mathematics with digital media
WebLabs: new representational infrastructures for e-learning

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Profiles

  • Alumni of Excellence
    Dr Sergio Gutiérrez-Santos has received an Alumni of Excellence Award from his alma mater University Carlos III of Madrid. This recognition is awarded to the recent alumnus (graduated in the ...
  • The Unteachable
    LKL's Co-Director Professor Richard Noss delivered his public lecture Learning the Unlearnable: Teaching the Unteachable at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education on 21st February to an audience of 450 ...
  • Live online debate between Diana Laurillard and Stephen Downes
    LKL's Diana Laurillard and Canadian researcher Stephen Downes presented contrasting responses to the question: To what extent should learning design be supported computationally? Organised by the Association for Learning Technology, ...
  • Miegunyah Fellowship for Prof Richard Noss
    Richard Noss, co-director of the London Knowledge Lab, has been awarded a 2012 Miegunyah Fellowship by the University of Melbourne. Richard will disseminate the findings of the Technology ...
  • Presentation Award for Tim Neumann
    LKL's Tim Neumann won a best short presentation award at the Association for Learning Technology Conference 2011 at the University of Leeds for his Pecha-Kucha-style presentation Matchmaking Learning Technologists and ...