This video that I watched with Salman Khan was really good. Salman is the founder of an online educational site called the Khan Academy. This website provides students and teachers all over the world with educational videos explaining things from basic math to the most difficult level of calculus and various other subjects also. Mr. Khan got started making these videos when he was tutoring his cousins. He would make videos for them and post them on Youtube. After looking at a lot of encouraging comments that he had received he thought he might be onto something and launched the Khan Academy.
The great thing about these videos is that the students can pause and replay any sections that they need to. They can work at their own pace and review videos as many times as they need to in order to understand that material. Many teachers have caught onto this website and are now utilizing it in their classrooms. Teachers said that they now give the online lectures as homework for students and then what used to be your traditional "homework" is done in the classroom. I think this is so awesome because how many times have we wanted our teachers assistance on our homework but haven't had that available. Now students do. Mr. Khan said it is a very humanizing experience and allows students and teachers more interaction and also interaction between peers.
Los Altos school district is now using the Khan Academy in place of the general math curriculum. The online academy gives students math problems and does not allow them to move onto the next level until they have completed 10 questions correctly in a row. Teachers can monitor students progress by looking at what they are stuck on; what problems they've had difficulty with, where they've paused the online lectures and what problems they have answered incorrectly. This allows teachers to better assist students.
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