From Harvard EdCast‘s “The Celebrity Math Tutor” (transcript below) Buffy Cushman-Patz: What efforts do you take to ensure that your pedagogy is consistent with what education research shows about how people learn, especially how people learn math and science? Sal Khan: Um you know the reality is…when we’re going through the first pass of the ...

My first talk! Given at the STANYS 2011 Physics Breakfast on November 8th, 2011 in Rochester, New York Links to resources mentioned in the talk: Feynman’s blackboard at his death Hake’s “Interactive-engagement versus traditional methods: A six-thousand-student survey of mechanics test data for introductory physics courses“ Bowling Ball & ...

From Hacked Education: Khan Academy announced this morning that it has raised $5 million from the O’Sullivan Foundation (a foundation created by Irish engineer and investor Sean O’Sullivan). The money is earmarked for several initiatives: expanding the Khan Academy faculty, creating a content management system so that others can use the program’s ...

Exhibit A: Exhibit B: Download the high-quality video clips for each collision. Discuss. Tagged: demonstration, Khan Academy, physics, teaching, technology, video

What is the future of learning? Vision #1: Doing Old Things in New Ways Vision #2: Doing New Things in New Ways (Thanks to David Smith of the Da Vinci Discovery Center of Science & Technology for bringing the Cyberlearning video to my attention) Tagged: cyberlearning, Khan Academy, technology

Many people aren’t getting the nuances of my recent Khan Academy arguments. I’ll make my final remarks and then put this thread to rest. Khan Academy videos are nothing new. MIT OpenCourseWare has been around for TEN YEARS now. Walter Lewin’s awesome physics lectures have been available for most of those 10 years — despite the fact they are ...

1. On Motivation John Resig, rock-star programmer and creater of JQuery, recently announced he will be leaving his job at Mozilla to work for Khan Academy. Yesterday, Mr. Resig started an Ask Me Anything meme at Reddit [h/t to John Burk]. This exchange caught my attention: Mr. Resig is spot-on. And we need build those environments in our ...

The fact that TED, Bill Gates, and the media love Khan Academy shows the failure of education. Khan Academy looks great because our country has reduced teaching and learning to preparing students to bubble in answer sheets for multiple choice tests. But if we shift the purpose of education from consuming knowledge  and stating answers to creating ...