Salman Khan starts out by talking about Khan academy and how there are videos on their to learm basically anything!
The "About this talk states"
"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."
There are over 2200 videos on the Khan academy!!!!
How he got started- he was tutoring his cousins in New Orleans, from Boston via the internet, and pposted some youtube videos to help them... His cousins said they preferred him on youtube to in person, lol!!!
-They could now pause and repeat him, or review something with him, and they can re-watch him, they preferred doing this to working with him in person.
-He put his videos on youtube for the world, and then people started stumbling on it... and he got all sorts of feedback from around the world.
-Example "first time I smiled doing a derivative!" "same thing here I actually got a natural high and smiled for the rest of the day"
-after this the viewership kept growing!
-Someone's autistic son used his math videos to learn
-Since Salman Khan was an analyst at a hedge fund, this started out being weird for him - this social value, helping others learn.
-He never thought that these videos would penetrate the classroom - his videos were being used to "give" the lectures as homework and then what used to be homework was being done in the classroom - ASTOUNDING!!! :)
-Obvious benefit, students can enjoy the video at their own pace in their own time, by removing the one-size fits all lecture, and then letting the students do work together and interact, the teachers have used technology to humanize the classroom. The lecture is now not - one-size fits all and they're now interacting.
So- he quit his job and created the Khan Academy...
- an example is that you can go online and do 10 questions and if you understand you can move on, but if not it keeps giving you questions so that you can practice...
-Very different from what happens in the classroom.
Random thought! - this guy is really funny!
-I'd love to watch videos of him teaching, I bet his lectures are actually entertaining, and definitely better than some of my college professors lol
-His site is all free - non-profit
-Some schools aren't using math textbooks anymore - they are using Khan academy to teach math- how crazy is that! And cool!
-Every kids works at his own pace, the teacher looks at the dashboard, and can see where each student is at and depending on the color (blue, green, red) can see the level students are performing online, and then knows how to group the students.
-With this you can really see all the progress of the kids, and some who are labeled as underacheiving are moving to the "gifted" category as they are allowed to move at their own pace.
He still does all the videos, but they have a team working together to create them and the ideas behind them. They are now starting to use "badqes" to give the students motivation.
-He is collaborating with 2 schools of 5th grade math at Los Altos. Their programs allow them to track the students from grade level to grade level as well.
-The only concern/complain I have for this is what if the student doesn't have internet access or a computer at home? Then what do you do? How do you require your student to watch these videos at home? Especially if you are teaching in an low SES area? However, overall, this is a great concept and how cool - that technology is being used to "humanize" the actual classroom experience, instead of just old boring lectures. I loved it! :)
Here's why you should listen to him: http://www.ted.com/speakers/salman_kahn.html
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