Posted on 08/30/2010 9:59:03 AM PDT by decimon
Slashdot posted about Bill Gates touting the Khan Academy, khanacademy.org. Glenn Reynolds linked to the Slashdot post so khanacademy has been Instalanched, i.e., may be overloaded.
Khan Academy looks like it may be good. And it's gratis.
Fellow is a MIT grad, wife's a physician and he started recording these short lessons while staying home with an infant.
I am sure that much reading of the works of John Milton and Herman Melville is also required. :)
No excuses not to homeschool now! ;)
Not really, if your kids are young they need supervision, and if they are teens, well, they need supervision. So someone pretty much has to be home unless you have very trustworthy teens.
excellent! Thanks!
You are welcome.
There was a good writeup in Forbes magazine. Until now, I had never heard of this guy. He’s managed to do what I was hoping to get around to, someday.
Bill Gates’ favorite teacher
The homemade tutorials of the one-man Khan Academy are sparking a revolution. By David A. Kaplan
http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/23/technology/sal_khan_academy.fortune/index.htm
The guy is wearing his pajamas. Maybe he’s a Freeper...
Thanks.
I haven’t viewed the videos but this looks like a hell of an achievement.
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