One Man, One Computer, 10 Million Students: How Khan Academy Is Reinventing Education -... - 3 views
-
Malik Hussain on 18 Nov 12Interesting Forbes article about Sal Khan's journey. Mentions his recently published book "The One World Schoolhouse". Highlights of his views reported in the article: "Khan would like to re-create the once common mixed-age classrooms that he believes encourage older kids to take responsibility for younger ones. He wants multiteacher classrooms to provide students with different perspectives. He would abolish summer vacation.... And he would eliminate letter grades altogether, preferring a more qualitative approach to assessment..."
-
Matthew Ong on 18 Nov 12Thanks for sharing Malik. Sal has done some nice work, and I'm wondering whether his mode of instruction can be used in other subject areas especially the arts and music. I'm guessing that it can, but his assessment mode would need to change from MCQs to something more qualitative.