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TED Talks:
Salman Khan: Let’s use video to reinvent education (3/9/11)
This lecture was absolutely fascinating. I’d heard about the Khan Academy (I think on an episode of The Daily Show?) and it’s goal of “flipping” the classroom, reinventing the paradigm of how students learn. However, I had never actually heard Khan discuss his online institution at length. Having students watch lectures at home, on their own time, and at their own pace before doing “homework” on the those previous days’ lectures in class with teacher and peer assistance is a bold and imaginative concept. As a current student teacher and future educator I would love to implement this program, even if only for a trial run, when given the opportunity. His analogy of riding a unicycle if you hadn’t yet mastered riding a bicycle was right on the money; a mastery approach to education, as opposed to one-size-fits-all approach that teaches only to the test while limiting creativity, might be the jolt America’s education system needs to get back on track. Or maybe I’m being too idealistic. Hmm.
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