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Really? I guess I am in minotrity, but after watching a few lessons on KA I I left with impression that quality of teaching is quite poor. Educational videos ma
by rimantas 15y ago
Really? I guess I am in minotrity, but after watching a few lessons on KA I I left with impression that quality of teaching is quite poor.
Educational videos may be one part of education, but they cannot replace all. Teachers are there to stay for a long long time and it has nothing todo with technology.
- tomjen3 15y agoI don't know about the quality of the other subjects (since I don't know enough about them to judge him) but I do know that his economy lectures were pretty good.
- wiredfool 15y agoA halfway engaged HS physics teacher would do far better than the videos I sampled on basic kinematics and newtons laws. The stuff there is just _begging_ for in person demos. From what I've seen, KA is better than nothing, or a really indifferent teacher. But If you have a better than average teacher, they're going to far surpass KA.
- michaelchisari 15y agoReminds me of the quote, "Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer, deserves to be." I love the quote, but of course, I am concerned that in our push to move to computer-based learning, we push out the teachers who can't be replaced by a computer.
- jeffreymcmanus 15y agoExactly right. Khan Academy's macro effect on K-12 education at present is limited to challenging the value and application of lectures. (Gamification of education which is not an original concept at all.) It's not even close to replacing instruction, since there are dozens of valuable things that instructors do besides lecture. And the notion that it will replace or even put a dent in traditional higher ed in our lifetime is pretty uninformed -- that isn't the problem they're setting out to fix.