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Re: [Phys-l] Khan's Video Lectures: Educational Failures or Harbingers of Educational Success?

Richard!

Despide the hurdles, I read most of your excerpts (abstracts).

You surround them, as shown below, w/ ********* , but include much else.

I'd appreciate your surrounding the abstract only, as edited below:

Then I, et alii, could, w/ o obstacles, read the excerpt, and, if desired, read more using your link(s) and references provided.

bc

On 2012, Mar 18, , at 17:11, Richard Hake wrote:


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ABSTRACT: In a "60 Minutes" program of 11 March titled "Khan Academy: The Future of Education?" <http://bit.ly/FPnIFH>, Bill Gates said: "There's a website that I've just been using with my kids - Khan Academy - this one guy doing some unbelievable 15 minute tutorials." . . . . Then host Sanjay Gupta exclaimed: "That's right, Bill Gates, one of the smartest and richest men in the world, was using Sol Khan's free videos to teach his own kids!"

In a post of 16 March "Khan's Video Lectures on Acceleration and Newton's Second Law" at <http://bit.ly/yPSjFE>," I criticized Khan's "unbelievable" video lectures on those subjects as EDUCATIONAL FAILURES. However, they may also be HARBINGERS OF EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS.

MathEdCC's perceptive Clyde Greeno put the optimistic perspective as follows (paraphrasing and generalizing Clyde's "math" to "education"):


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". . . .apart from Khan's presentations, the instructional technology that he has developed can greatly expedite national and personal efforts to improve teaching and learning. . . . Khan was an engineering student who was reared through the American traditional public perceptions of what 'education' is and how it should be taught. Khan did NOT write the educational scripts . . . . and must not be blamed for their educational flaws. In fact (unlike so many 'experts'), Khan might still be educable . . . . or responsive to enlightened guidance for improving the quality of his video library . . . . from those who can offer something better than complaints. The 'harnessing' challenge is clear: use the same instructional-media technology to do what *should* be done . . . . perhaps even by educating Kahn."
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