Hi... When I first saw the Khan Academy videos, I didn't like them. They just seemed to be the traditional "Sage on a Stage" style of teaching.... not at all collaborative or constructionist. But then, I watched his TED talk ( http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_reinvent_education.html ) and, now, I am a "convert." Taken alone... forget it! But combined with his program of practice exercises and "awards" ( http://www.khanacademy.org/exercisedashboard ), the Khan Academy material is excellent! Also, teachers who "flip" their classes and use a collaborative setting in their classrooms should find a lot more time for individual student attention where needed. Students who "get it" right away can also re-enforce their learning by helping others. Better understanding and achievement for all students should be a logical result. Caryl
> Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 15:12:56 -0400 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [IAEP] Khan academy content > > > You can download around 1000 of the Khan Academy videos in OGV format > (playable on XO laptops) from Archive.org Here's an English/Spanish > index of relevant categories http://mapmeld.com/khan_categories.html > > If you're skeptical or haven't seen his videos, his talk sparked a great > discussion about math education on Hacker News: > http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2307532 > > For more recent videos, including YouTube, there's this media guide: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/MediaGuide > > Regards, > Nick Doiron > > > On Mon, April 4, 2011 3:57 pm, Chris Leonard wrote: > > I haven't really looked into this, but I thought it might be of interest > > to some on the list. > > > > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/04/the-khan-academy-and-educ_n_8443 > > 90.html > > > > > > http://www.khanacademy.org/ > > > > > > One might imagine these videos being stored on the School Server for > > local access. According to the page below it is all cc-by-sa > > > > https://sites.google.com/a/khanacademy.org/forge/home/mission-principles- > > and-values > > > > I was very happy to see this statement "begin to translate the lessons > > into Arabic, Bengali, French, German, Hindi-Urdu, Indonesian, Mandarin, > > Portuguese, Russian and Spanish so they could be distributed globally. " > > > > > > This page covers their localization process: > > > > > > http://www.khanacademy.org/contribute > > > > > > cjl _______________________________________________ > > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > > [email protected] > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
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