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Move Over Harvard And MIT, Stanford Has The Real "Revolution In Education" | TechCrunch - 0 views

  • recent one-week study that compared the outcomes of two classes, a control class that received a lecture from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and an experimental section where students worked with graduate assistants to solve physics problems. Test scores for the experimental group (non-lecture) was nearly double that of the control section (41% to 74%).
Phil Taylor

Behind today's TED-Ed launch - TEDChris: The untweetable - 0 views

  • HOWEVER, none of this, for a moment, displaces the teacher. On the contrary, it amplifies teacher skills. It may also facilitate the ability for teachers to play to their strongest card:
  • We should not try to recreate what Salman Khan of the Khan Academy and others are doing so brilliantly, namely to meticulously build up entire curricula on video. No. TED is known for its ability to evoke curiosity, wonder, and mind-shifting insight.  That should be our prime goal here. Short lessons that spark curiosity.
Phil Taylor

Turning the Classroom Upside Down - WSJ.com - 1 views

  • The teacher delivers lectures on a new concept, students do some homework problems, and after a few weeks they take an exam. Some do well, some do poorly, and then it's on to the next topic.
  • given students and teachers the power to "flip" the traditional classroom
Phil Taylor

Khan Academy is an Indictment of Education | Action-Reaction - 0 views

  • As my students would say, “Don’t hate the player, hate the game.” Khan Academy is merely a player. We need to change the game.
Phil Taylor

Using Hour of Code in your classroom | Hour of Code (for Coaches) | Khan Academy - 0 views

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    "What is Hour of Code on Khan Academy?"
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