The one world schoolhouse
by Salman Khan · first published 2012
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Why HN recommends it
Accessible pop-science take on the future of education, covering online and classroom learning and mastery-based math, with encouraging accounts of what has worked; suits general readers interested in teaching.
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"A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere: this is the goal of the Khan Academy, a passion project that grew from an ex-hedge funder's online tutoring sessions with his niece, who was struggling with algebra, into a worldwide phenomenon. Today, millions have viewed and subscribed to the Khan Academy's YouTube videos, which have expanded to encompass nearly every conceivable subject. Like all great innovators, Sal Khan established himself as an outsider, with no teaching background to tie him to broken models. And his breakthrough idea has become his life's passion. Schools seek his
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…whole. He does a good job of explaining things in an intuitive and deep way. See http://www.collegeanswerz.com/rethinking-education for more information. Or read Sal's book http://www.amazon.com/The-One-World-Schoolhouse-Reimagined/d....
on “Open letter to Sal Khan” ↗…explanation in the teaching section, etc. You could eventually be able to generate adaptive exams from this data. Sal Khan of the Khan Academy talks about all these things. I recommend his book: The One World Schoolhouse. (http://www.amazon.com/The-One-World-Schoolhouse-Reimagined/d...)
on “The End of College? Not So Fast” ↗More of a motivational book than anything else, but Salman Khan's "One World Schoolhouse" was a very enjoyable book on the future of education (on and offline). It's more of a pop-sci book but it does give encouraging accounts of the success of the mastery learning philosophy for middle school…
on “Ask HN: Books on the future of online education?” ↗Salman Khan's One World Schoolhouse does a good job exploring this topic I think. On the one hand many students struggle with what he calls a "swiss cheese" understanding of math: lacking mastery of fundamental concepts that leads them…
on “Math education: It’s not about numbers, it’s about learning how to think” ↗…whether the time of day affects you. As for being creative, I imagine the same arguments for mornings being more productive would apply (better physiological state). I have a feeling you might enjoy "The One World Schoolhouse" by Salman Khan (as in Khan Academy).
on “I don’t understand Graph Theory” ↗Try reading "The One World Schoolhouse" by Salman Khan.
on “Powerful Thoughts From Paul Graham” ↗I think this is an underlying strength of Elon's success and the success of innovators in general (there were a few pages on this in Salman Khan's The One World Schoolhouse) -- starting from first principles. When you have an old model, it's come about due to whatever the situation in the industry was like at the time, and it's evolved due to past forces acting on the old…
on ““The Tesla Model S is our top-scoring car”” ↗There's some extra context. In Khan's book "The One World Schoolhouse", he mentions some children who are branded "slow" under many traditional curricula. But at some later point, they lurch forward, ahead of the rest of the class. (As if they had some confusion which caused…
on “Why I'll Never Tell My Son He's Smart” ↗