This post caught me as I reflected on classroom observations. His take as a blogger, and thoughts on marketing etc. are intreguing. He references a book of value called Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience - a worthy read.
Interesting read that tries to unpack some core ideas about how the internet works today and implies some potential impacts (while stating up front that there is no way to really know).
Not only would it provide for deeper, more motivated learning, but a portfolio of meaningful projects is vastly more interesting for a prospective employer than a GPA on a transcript (we know because Khan Academy’s own hiring process cares a lot more about what someone has creatively produced than their GPA).
Students who are looking for jobs with new innovative companies better stop worrying about their GPA and start thinking much more seriously about what they produce.
This liberates the rest of class time for peer tutoring, higher level interactions between teachers and students, and truly creative projects.
Don't think that Khan, or any other tech tool can ever replace a teacher. It just changes their job.
We played a variation of freeze tag where we changed the size of the playing field and the number of “freezers”. Students predicted and observed how the dynamics of the game changed as more freezers were added and the threshold needed to freeze everyone. They were quick to draw analogies to other areas of science.