anyone played around with this? i'm working my way through the practice exercises just to prove to myself that i can still do math the long way.

http://www.khanacademy.org/


oh, and it doesn't have anything to do with

8/26/2011 9:31:45 AM

i read about it in Wired a month ago

8/26/2011 9:33:52 AM

i completed all of the courses and attained a higher form of existence

8/26/2011 9:37:43 AM

This could be useful when it comes time to study for the GRE. I've forgotten more math than I like to admit

8/26/2011 9:40:04 AM

I was really excited about it at first, after hearing how enthusiastic Bill Gates was about it.

Then I tried to watch their videos...

In order for me to learn anything, those videos need to be LITERALLY 20x or more faster. It's like watching paint dry. They are so rambling and so slow to get to any point I care about.

Maybe this is why I never learned much from lectures in school...

8/26/2011 9:42:46 AM

i've had it bookmarked for a few months now

haven't opened it since but i still have hope that someday i'll get a chance to check it out more

8/26/2011 9:43:09 AM

yeah, this is the sort of thing where a fast forward button could be very useful for online video. so you can speed through the useless bits and still maintain a reasonable assurance that you're going to stop at the right spot.

8/26/2011 9:47:30 AM

^ exactly. i watch technical screencasts all the time, and it's so frustrating to have to watch a 30 minute video and only get 5 minutes of useful information out of it

the web needs a service that fully annotates and transcript videos. so i can read the transcript as i watch, and click on transcript text to fast forward to that section of the video

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8/26/2011 9:51:24 AM

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8/26/2011 9:53:47 AM

just downloaded the app on webOS touchpad, so it's just a bunch of videos?

8/26/2011 9:56:05 AM

I thought this was about teaching kids the ways of Kubla and Genghis.

8/26/2011 9:56:29 AM

Their knowledge map is pretty cool, but it seems they only have it for math.

I mean, it would be fantastic for someone who needed to get awesomely fluent in 8th grade level math.

8/26/2011 10:04:42 AM

i dunno, i didnt actually look at the material, but there is a lot of calculus/diff-eq stuff on there as their own categories

8/26/2011 10:05:47 AM

This is the type of thing I'll have a burning need for when my kid(s) need help with schoolwork, and i've forgotten everything.

8/26/2011 10:12:51 AM

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8/26/2011 10:24:53 AM

It's an awesome site.

8/26/2011 10:54:05 AM

i read about it in wired too!

<3 <3 <3 that magazine!!!

8/26/2011 10:56:42 AM

^^^ I don't even know what this is a list of

8/26/2011 5:30:06 PM

Ken told me about this prob a year ago now. What a great idea for schools and it is FREE!!

8/26/2011 5:54:48 PM

These are popular amongst progressive homeschoolers

8/26/2011 8:59:27 PM

In the future, K through all of college will be one big online video game.

8/26/2011 9:01:17 PM

i'm pleased that i'm still capable of doing arithmetic long-hand. do they still teach kids how to do this, or have calculators become the only way they teach math these days?

8/26/2011 9:06:59 PM

relevant

8/26/2011 9:07:30 PM

8/27/2011 1:25:22 AM

KHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAN is on TV right now.

10/20/2011 3:01:55 PM

Quote :

"In order for me to learn anything, those videos need to be LITERALLY 20x or more faster. It's like watching paint dry. They are so rambling and so slow to get to any point I care about."

You realize that a lot of the videos are designed to be accessible to kids, right?

Khan Academy is awesome, and will definitely be considered one of the pioneers of e-Learning. The traditional K-12 model is failing spectacularly, making us the laughing stock of the developed world. We must replace it with cheaper, more effective learning tools like this.

10/20/2011 3:04:47 PM

I've been using it for statistics, does anyone have any other sites that go into more detail or more practice?

10/20/2011 7:20:50 PM

What is your email? I can send you problem sets.

10/20/2011 7:28:45 PM

I am behind on reading Wired, but I read the article about 2 weeks ago and have had my son work through a few of the lessons. He is good in math, so I thought it would be fun to challenge him a little bit more in that. So far he has enjoyed it, but gotten a little frustrated by some of the things as well. We will stick with it.

10/20/2011 7:35:17 PM

My Name is Khan

(starring Salman Khan)

good movie

10/20/2011 8:33:59 PM