Does the Khan Academy know how to teach? - The Washington Post - 5 views
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Gates has called Khan, "the best teacher I've ever seen.
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An example of some of the large claims being made about Khan Academy that seem to suggest limited understanding of what makes a good teacher?
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This is an interesting one - how can a teacher be hailed as such, when there is no real interaction (questioning from the student's point of view)? The Khan Academy does have its advantages as a very useful prop to specific lessons and concepts, yet the questions posed by any learner should be equally important if effective learning is to take place.
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I agree Doreen, furthermore, the Khan Academy cannot be used as a stand alone to teaching, yet as a tool to extend understanding or to reteach concepts
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It is a useful tool I agree. Students need to have an understand of a variety of ways/strategies/methods to draw upon in order to gain a full understand of the concepts.
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Interesting to see Bill Gates making a reference to teaching skills. Last I checked he wasn't an expert in education?!
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I don't get why they are making reference to Bill Gates I don't believe he has an understanding of teaching. Although these online library can help with understanding but is it really the way we want education to go online teaching??
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I belive that the reference to Gates arises from the fact that he's spending a lot of his money attempting to improve schools and universities. That money means that his views on what is good teaching carry significant weight. More so than his qualifications and experience might otherwise warrant.
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What is more, his videos reveal an ignorance of how we know students learn mathematics.
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The Khan Academy videos suffer from the poor PCK of the people developing the videos. The core of the argument here.
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The videos were started to help students who were already learning through the school system and needed more help without having to pay for it. A lot of people are complaining about the videos as alternatives to explicit teaching in the classroom, but aren't they great for what they were originally designed for.
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I don't think the Khan videos are doing any damage...They shouldn't be used as a stand alone, but instead as a supplement for learning, perhaps.
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I think the videos are great as a supplementary activity, it provides a different way to explain something. Good on him for attempting it.
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I like David's comment: videos aren't actually evidence of the Khan academy, just "the poor PCK of the people developing the videos.".
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Pedagogical content knowledge is an important foundation for planning lessons and for decision making during a lesson.
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A critique of some of the Khan Academy videos from a PCK perspective.
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A critique of some of the Khan Academy videos from a PCK perspective.
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A critique of some of the Khan Academy videos from a PCK perspective.
cooltoolsforschools - Home - 0 views
Free Technology for Teachers: 7 Web-based Tools for Creating Short Video Stories - 0 views
Ten Quick Questions: A Fantastic, Free Mental Maths Tool. - 2 views
Popplet - 2 views
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I came across a fantastic app for students called 'Popplet' which is a tool for students to make graphic organizers to visually represent their ideas and thoughts on a particular topic. This app can be used for sharing and collaborating and is an effective pedagogical tool to use in all learning areas.
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I used Popplet the first time last week during class and I must say, it is a fantastic app. The students enjoyed brainstorming ideas through the use of this digital tool and were probably the most quiet they'd been all week. I will definitely be exploring this app in greater depth and using it in the classroom whenever the opportunity arises. Thankyou for sharing.
ZooBurst - 0 views
ICTmagic - Educational Games - 2 views
be you. | a quiet revolution - 5 views
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An example of a different approach for the assignment 1 artefact that came through my feeds today. It's a Wordpress blog that has been used to create a "presentation through hypertext of an alternative vision for a school". Not only is this a good example of trying something different in a webs ite. It is about re-thinking education influenced, in part, by some of the factors we're talking about in this course. FYI, the clickable image on the front page is implemented using what is called an "imagemap". Google that term and you'll find some resources/tools that can help
Tools Of ICT - 3 views
Your Smarticles: Zooburst - 0 views
Web 2.0 for the Classroom Teacher - 0 views
Mural.ly: Google Docs for Visual People - 3 views
High School Student, Jeff Bliss gives a lesson to his teacher at Duncanville, TX - YouTube - 1 views
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A video doing the rounds in which a US high school student complains bitterly about the teaching approach used. i.e. hand out packets, read. He wants the teacher to teach, to engage the students. A lesson there about what's acceptable teaching strategies. But more broadly, there's a lesson here about the spread of smart phones with video. What happens in your classroom can be recorded and made public. The classroom may not be as private as you think. A typical knee-jerk response may be to ban the use of device. What are the chances of that actually working? How well has it worked in schools today? What about using these tools as part of student learning?
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