Let's use video to reinvent education - Salman Khan
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Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script -- give students video lectures to watch at home and do "homework" in the classroom with the teacher available to help.
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With a library of over 4,000 videos on everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and hundreds of skills to practice, the Khan Academy is on a mission to help people learn what they want, when they want, at their own pace.Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity in his 2006 TED Talk.Listen to the story on NPR about the YouTube Phenomenon, as it celebrated its five-year anniversary in 2010. Robert Siegel talks to Alex Pham, technology journalist for the Los Angeles Times, about its effect on the online world.In 2011, the World Bank launched a new Education Sector Strategy 2020, “Learning for All.” The strategy recognizes that the knowledge and skills that children and youth gain, through learning, help lift them out of poverty and drive development.Education is universally recognized as one of the most fundamental building blocks for human development and poverty reduction. It is key to attaining the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.
Share your reactions to and questions about being a teacher and/or a student in a flipped classroom.
If you have taught using a flipped classroom approach, what have you liked about this? Disliked? What questions and/or suggestions do you have for others about flipping classrooms? If you are a student, what have you liked about being a student in a flipped class? What questions and/or suggestions do you have for teachers about flipping their classrooms?
Here's to the future! Can you include languages? If not, how can I start a similar video learning...
In all my university classes, each student is developing an original service or product to be sim-developed and marketed. Your TED talk was inspiration for forming "infomercial" teams.
I am currently transitioning from a business career to teaching business at the high school level. I believe the flipped classroom IS the way to go; but there does not seem to be much video content in subjects like: accounting, entrepreneurship, financial literacy, etc...???
What could improve Khan Academy? And what subjects could be incorporated into this learning revol...
Things like math and accounting are insanely important to understand and conceptualize but what else could be included in this way of teaching and learning?
Ivalina Salabasheva
Would you consider delivering this lesson or similar video lessons online in a virtual classroom? My suggestion is myuktutor.com. We are now launching in the UK and the first 100 registered tutors will have the luck to use the platform for free. http://offer.jobisjob.co.uk/m/offer/eajqodkcc5kwnsujpqh5rr3vz4?availableSoon=true
Is the School Administration a heavy rock to move forward in the US, as we can observe sometimes ...
If we were talking about potatoes, not grabbing the marching train wouldn't be a disaster. But that's OUR kids we're talking about.
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