|
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend Bookmark this thread |
This topic is archived. |
Home » Discuss » General Discussion |
True Earthling (373 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 11:35 AM Original message |
Khan Academy... self-driven education... no classes, no grades, no 6 hr school days |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
lazarus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 11:39 AM Response to Original message |
1. this doesn't work for all students at all |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
True Earthling (373 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 11:42 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. This is online learning |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
chrisa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 11:47 AM Response to Reply #2 |
7. Some online lessons are pretty terrible. I took them in college. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
True Earthling (373 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 11:56 AM Response to Reply #7 |
11. Instead of "imagining" - why not take a few science lessons at the Khan Academy |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
chrisa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 01:45 PM Original message |
Don't need to take it to know that it could never substitute for normal schools. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 02:28 PM Response to Original message |
28. +1 |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
True Earthling (373 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 08:08 PM Response to Original message |
33. Students are not taught by a "computer screen"... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
karynnj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 08:21 AM Response to Reply #33 |
50. There are better ways to use computers in science |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
chrisa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 04:22 PM Response to Reply #33 |
83. "The bulk of the learning would be video based" |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 08:22 PM Response to Original message |
37. "Don't need to know" |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
chrisa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 04:19 PM Response to Reply #37 |
82. Give it a rest. I just personally don't think this would work. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 01:03 PM Response to Original message |
69. Nailed it! |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
karynnj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 08:17 AM Response to Reply #11 |
49. Can you put this in context? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
True Earthling (373 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 10:43 AM Response to Reply #49 |
57. I'm 60 yrs old - not a student, not a teacher and do not work for Khan |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
karynnj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 11:40 AM Response to Reply #57 |
59. Thanks - just thought the question needed to be asked |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
lbrtbell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 01:38 PM Response to Reply #7 |
19. Social benefits? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
chrisa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 01:43 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Kids need to go out and make friends, not stare at a computer screen all day. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
snooper2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 11:43 AM Response to Reply #7 |
60. you can't really learn Science online |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
mzteris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 12:25 PM Response to Reply #1 |
17. it works VERY well for some students |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 02:29 PM Response to Reply #1 |
30. unrec for ed deform commercial. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Starry Messenger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 08:19 PM Response to Reply #30 |
36. With Bill Gates featured prominently on the home page. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 02:31 AM Response to Reply #36 |
39. :>). second time in as many days that this ed deform commercial has been posted. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 11:43 AM Response to Original message |
3. And nary a poet nor artist nor philosopher will emerge, much to the delight of the Overlords. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
mzteris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 12:26 PM Response to Reply #3 |
18. um - actually - |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Sen. Walter Sobchak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
4. This has been around for forty years |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
True Earthling (373 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 11:47 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. This is new - go to the Khan Academy link .. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Sen. Walter Sobchak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 11:49 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. The internet is new, Self Directed Learning based schools were popping up like weeds in the 70's |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
True Earthling (373 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 12:05 PM Response to Reply #8 |
16. The learning experience is new.. thanks to the internet/Youtube |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
chrisa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
5. The problem is, what if the kids do no work at all? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
True Earthling (373 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 11:49 AM Response to Reply #5 |
9. They are less likely to get "stuck" in this system... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Occulus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 11:55 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Do they do the same with art and music? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
True Earthling (373 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 11:58 AM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Salman Kahn said he wants to cover EVERY subject before it's done - 2300 lessons online so far |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Occulus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 02:09 PM Response to Reply #13 |
25. Well, then, he's going to leave things out. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
True Earthling (373 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 07:42 PM Response to Reply #25 |
32. This will not eliminate teacher/student interaction... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 08:23 AM Response to Reply #32 |
51. You gave that part of the commercial already |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
True Earthling (373 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 10:46 AM Response to Reply #51 |
58. There's nothing commercial about it... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 12:06 PM Response to Reply #58 |
64. Have you been a classroom teacher? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
True Earthling (373 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 01:03 PM Response to Reply #64 |
68. No n/t |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 01:08 PM Response to Reply #68 |
71. Didn't think so |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
True Earthling (373 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 01:24 PM Response to Reply #71 |
74. Never said "one size fits all" |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 03:17 PM Response to Reply #74 |
77. It's more than that |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 01:01 PM Response to Reply #58 |
66. funded by gates. that's what it's about. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
True Earthling (373 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 01:39 PM Response to Reply #66 |
75. It's not about Gates... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 03:27 PM Response to Reply #75 |
80. Bill Gates knows zilch about how people who aren't obsessive nerds learn |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
True Earthling (373 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-11 03:46 PM Response to Reply #80 |
88. Generalization and over-simplification of how corporations work... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-11 06:19 PM Response to Reply #88 |
91. Are you Khan? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 08:31 PM Response to Reply #25 |
38. ... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 11:58 AM Response to Original message |
12. This works for very bright students who like to work on their own. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
True Earthling (373 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 12:02 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Start at the beginning and then progress.. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Aerows (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 02:30 PM Response to Reply #12 |
31. It's perfect for bright students |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 12:02 PM Response to Original message |
15. While good stuff, this concept does not work for all students and some age groups |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
AngryAmish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 08:27 AM Response to Reply #15 |
52. What this guy said |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 01:40 PM Response to Original message |
20. This thread has been neg reccd. Someone doesn't like alternative education |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 01:03 PM Response to Reply #20 |
70. some people don't like gates-funded ed deform trojans, or commercials for them. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
LadyHawkAZ (800 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 01:45 PM Response to Original message |
22. Good idea |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 01:47 PM Response to Original message |
23. I like the concept. Thanks for sharing. Also, I don't get why |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Aerows (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 02:28 PM Response to Reply #23 |
29. It's great for kids that are in school for an education |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 06:54 AM Response to Reply #29 |
44. great for kids who "like to learn" |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
immoderate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 01:55 PM Response to Original message |
24. Terrible idea. (Partly) |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Aerows (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 02:22 PM Response to Original message |
26. It really depends on how motivated of a student you are or your child is |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Aerows (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 02:26 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. And by the way - |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
wickerwoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 08:15 PM Response to Original message |
34. Ghenghis or "Wrath of..."? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Starry Messenger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-30-11 08:17 PM Response to Original message |
35. Great idea if you want to foster elitism. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 02:38 AM Response to Original message |
40. I just woke from a nightmare and then I read this |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 05:28 AM Response to Reply #40 |
43. Then you haven't read Bill Gates' idea about hooking undereducated proctors with Indian PhDs via |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
spinbaby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 05:25 AM Response to Original message |
41. This would work for only a few students |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 05:25 AM Response to Original message |
42. Yes, because teachers are just glorified information dispensers. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
True Earthling (373 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 11:54 AM Response to Reply #42 |
61. Not the disaster you say it is... statistics say otherwise... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 03:19 PM Response to Reply #61 |
78. You know why colleges like online learning? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
True Earthling (373 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 12:59 PM Response to Reply #42 |
65. The problem is students don't ask questions sometimes out of embarrassment... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 07:15 AM Response to Original message |
45. KHHAAAAAAANNNNNN ! ! ! ! ! |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 07:51 AM Response to Reply #45 |
47. Was the first thing that came to my mind when I read the Subject line... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
karynnj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 07:48 AM Response to Original message |
46. This may work incredibly well for some, but there may be many who |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
eppur_se_muova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 07:59 AM Response to Original message |
48. Those who like this sort of thing ... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 08:29 AM Response to Original message |
53. You can't REALLY teach a foreign language that way, either |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Lucian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 08:30 AM Response to Original message |
54. This is great...if you're in college. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 08:34 AM Response to Reply #54 |
56. It would be a great thing for the control-freak variety of homeschooling parent |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 11:58 AM Response to Reply #56 |
63. you've met my brother-in-law. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 08:31 AM Response to Original message |
55. Hey, I have an idea, maybe the NEA could take over Microsoft |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
octothorpe (358 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 11:56 AM Response to Original message |
62. Regardless of the political aspects that might be at play, the videos on there are awesome. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 01:02 PM Response to Reply #62 |
67. triumph of the will was a great flick, too. "regardless of the political aspects" |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
octothorpe (358 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 02:10 PM Response to Reply #67 |
76. You're comparing his educational lessons to Nazi propaganda? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
DireStrike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 01:13 PM Response to Original message |
72. People who support this have never taken online classes. -nt- |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 03:24 PM Response to Reply #72 |
79. I took an online class once to see if I wanted to translate in a certain area |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
ikri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 01:13 PM Response to Original message |
73. I knew a student once |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
madmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 03:42 PM Response to Original message |
81. This worked quite well for my son. He went back to school in his |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
WatsonT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 05:04 PM Response to Original message |
84. If children had an inherent love for learning and could do so on their own |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
LetTimmySmoke (970 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-31-11 05:09 PM Response to Original message |
85. Los Gatos area students peform very well already |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Maat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-11 07:09 AM Response to Original message |
86. We homeschool through a charter school ... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-11 07:11 AM Response to Original message |
87. sick of this ed deform crap |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
True Earthling (373 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-11 03:54 PM Response to Reply #87 |
89. Would you care to expand on what you mean by "ed deform"? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
TBF (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-01-11 04:32 PM Response to Original message |
90. You WILL be assimilated. nt |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) | Sun May 26th 2024, 08:58 PM Response to Original message |
Advertisements [?] |
Top |
Home » Discuss » General Discussion |
Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators
Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.
Home | Discussion Forums | Journals | Store | Donate
About DU | Contact Us | Privacy Policy
Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.
© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC