Amazing TED talk by Salman Khan: ‘Let’s use video to reinvent education’

This is one of the most impressive TED talks I have seen  for a while.

Anyone with kids of or approaching school age and in fact anyone who is interested in learning should watch.

It’s 20 minutes so maybe save it for lunch or after school.

Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises, and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script — give students video lectures to watch at home, and do “homework” in the classroom with the teacher available to help.

In 2004, Salman Khan, a hedge fund analyst, began posting math tutorials on YouTube. Six years later, he has posted more than 2.000 tutorials, which are viewed nearly 100,000 times around the world…

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