Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education
TED: Ideas worth spreading
Filmed and posted March 2011
count: 20 pages (20:27 video)
A natural follow-up to the previous post about flipping the classroom, this video records Kahn (originator of the original scope-and-sequence math videos) presenting at TED.
He shares the free, online Kahn Academy website and the opportunity and resources it offers to reinvent the way we do education.
Some cogent take-aways:
- videos let folks learn at their own pace and time
- use the game learning strategy: we'll generate as many questions as you need until you get that concept.
- Fundamental assessment: get 10 in a row and move on. Software automatically forwards you to more and more advanced modules. (Concepts are mapped.)
- Viewing the videos frees up time for the classroom, to make teacher-student interaction as productive as possible.
- Tremendous source of live data reflecting competencies and lacks thereof for the students.
- Goal is to humanize instruction.
- Not focusing on student to teacher ratio, but rather student to valuable-human-time-with-the-teacher ratio.
The moderator, Bill Gates, closed with these words: "I think you've just seen the future of education."
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