I have shared Khan Academy on this blog before, which is a website containing videos explaining various content from across a lot of the curriculum in schools. There are over 2200 videos spanning across arithmetic and, science, and history. There are over 1 million visitors a month watching over 100,000 videos each day.
Recently, the producer of Khan Academy, Salman Khan did a talk at TED. This talk was titled: Let's Use Video to Reinvent Education. You can see the video embedded below.
Recently, the producer of Khan Academy, Salman Khan did a talk at TED. This talk was titled: Let's Use Video to Reinvent Education. You can see the video embedded below.
Albert Einstein said that when video cameras were invented it would end the teaching profession because we could just record teachers teaching and then show the videos in the classroom. That never happened. Now with the availability of recording and sharing video could we be going down that path?
Are sites like Khan Academy going to take education down this path? Or will the idea of flipping how we teach...watch lessons on video at home and do homework in the classroom take off and be a possibility?
At the end of the video, Bill Gates makes an appearance and states that this is the "Future of Education" Do you agree or disagree?
And when he says future of education, which part, teachers being replaced by video lessons or flipping how we teach?
Here is another blog post by the Hack Education blog that I follow discussing some of the same questions I have.
What are your thoughts?
