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Vi Hart and Khan Academy Join Forces [video]
- TamDenholm 15y agoWell i've never heard of Vi Hart but she seems to do a similar sort of thing to Sal making educational videos, so it seems like a natural partnership. The Khan Academy seems to be going from strength to strength. :)
- TamDenholm 15y agoA longer explanation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWuAYoHysIo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWuAYoHysIo
- VMG 15y agoShe joins the dark side of gasp verbal education?
- pilot_pirx 15y agoGood thing to do. Khan does great work, but to be true, he is quite boring sometimes. Getting somebody else in with better grasp of how to make a video educational and entertaining at the same time would be a great idea.
- hammerbrostime 15y agoAwesome, what a great combo. For those unfamiliar with Vi's work, she makes very entertaining and accessible video series called "Doodling in Math Class". Here's one of my favorites, called "Infinity Elephants" http://bit.ly/zEiugp http://bit.ly/zEiugp
- ranza 15y agoYay! I love Vi. She got me into math again
- droithomme 15y agoVi Hart is an absolutely awesome artist with incredibly enthusiastic and inspiring pedagogical math videos. This would seem a match made in heaven. Also be sure to check out her hobby of building musical instruments out of paper and then playing them while they are on fire.
- neolefty 15y agoWoo, I love it. I wondered if something was up ever since they collaborated on a video about scale: http://www.khanacademy.org/video/vi-and-sal-explore-how-we-think-about-scale http://www.khanacademy.org/video/vi-and-sal-explore-how-we-t... In hindsight, it looks suspiciously like the practical problem-solving part of an interview. Vi seems like a well-rounded addition to Khan Academy: She makes videos and also does great hands-on educational inspiration with her artist-in-residence stints and all (update: http://vihart.com/blog/tags/Harvard.html http://vihart.com/blog/tags/Harvard.html). Sal Khan wants to run a real school, and Vi will be a world-class camp counselor.