I've seen the future of education, and here it is.
I've seen the future of education, and here it is.
agreed....first graders have to be taught how to learn....a video wont do that.
This is an incredible advancement though....I've signed up myself and am currently using the lessons.
They have an awesome math collection that will take someone through all the math I learned in college. Their computer science collection seems OK, but I'll have to watch a few to see. The organization on those seems a little weird, but there is a famous programmer that recently started working for Khan Academy and he's been talking about some new computer science lectures they are working on.
Yes, I am starting from square one on the math, just to see what I know and to learn some of the things that I didn't....the exercises are very cool....I can't wait to show this to my daughters...they both struggled with school so much....one of them has watched a few of the videos, and it was pretty amazing watching her face as the light bulbs were turning on in her head!
khan academy is amazing. I've linked to them before.
we have to be careful about using a very general term like "education". Education at the first grade level is very different than education at the college level.