I do believe the idea behind this teaching style isn't the content of the videos, which are only as good as the lecturer, but instead its the change in pedagogy. This style embraces several elements that I find excellent:
A) Lectures as homework, class time as tutorial - When it comes down to it, lecturers are impersonal. A lecturer, highly skilled in teaching, can produce a video that explains topics better than a great number of teachers could in class. By assigning the lecture as homework, teachers can spend their class time answering questions, helping students with tricky problems, and spending more personalized time with students. Motivated students can also watch further into the course receiving instruction from both lecture and textbook. B) Pre-requisite flow and metrics - In the same way a college restricts someone from enrolling in Calc 2 before demonstrating proficiency Calc 1, this program does this on a granular level for individual course topics. This identifies where a child has weaknesses, and does not progress them to a compound idea including the weakness until the weakness is addressed. This style also allows excellent students to move at a quicker pace, and helps the teacher identity students who are having trouble using built in metrics. **************************** Greg Sonnenfeld "Junior programmers create simple solutions to simple problems. Senior programmers create complex solutions to complex problems. Great programmers find simple solutions to complex problems. The code written by topnotch programmers may appear obvious, once it is finished, but it is vastly more difficult to create." On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Bruce Sherwood <bruce.sherw...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't think I get it. > > I looked at one of the videos, the second of two on work and energy in > the physics section, and 1) I don't see how this is somehow better > than a textbook treatment, and 2) it's not very good physics. I read > that all of the 2400 short videos have been produced by one person, > the head of the organization. This surely doesn't guarantee quality. > > How is this progress? > > Bruce > > On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Victoria Hughes <victo...@toryhughes.com> > wrote: >> Great teaching style, use of simple accessible graphics, and what, over 2400 >> topics about math, science, finances, and more. Video format. >> http://www.khanacademy.org/ >> >> >> Tory Hughes >> www.toryhughes.com >> Milagro Hacienda creativity retreat >> The Creative Development manual >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >> > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
