{"id":299,"date":"2010-11-08T12:55:42","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T16:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.payne.org\/?p=299"},"modified":"2010-11-08T12:55:42","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T16:55:42","slug":"disrupting-education-khan-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/disrupting-education-khan-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"Disrupting Education: Khan Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think Salman Khan is onto something with Khan Academy<\/a>. \u00a0I’ve been wondering when we’d see Internet-style disruption coming to\u00a0education, and this might be it.<\/p>\n

Sal’s found a way to leverage the power of the Internet. \u00a0He’s a great teacher, and his videos package up that teaching ability, for anyone, anywhere to use, at virtually no cost. \u00a0For a system that’s depended on teachers being physically present with their students, this is a way to take our best teachers and make them available to everyone. \u00a0I don’t think this will fully replace a face-to-face education (and it shouldn’t), but it can surely augment it.<\/p>\n

Also, he’s using video very well. \u00a0Instead of a talking head or a lecture podium shot with fuzzy slides, we see what’s most important — the shared “paper”. \u00a0 Also, he’s kept the videos short<\/strong>, and single-topic. \u00a0Too many people are still using traditional\u00a0video production principles (e.g. long segments, talking heads), and Sal’s showing us a much more effective way.<\/p>\n

Finally, I wish Richard Feynmen<\/a> had been able to do this before he died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think Salman Khan is onto something with Khan Academy. \u00a0I’ve been wondering when we’d see Internet-style disruption coming to\u00a0education, and this might be it. Sal’s found a way to leverage the power of the Internet. \u00a0He’s a great teacher, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/payne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}