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Posted on 07/27/2013 11:42:05 AM PDT by AlmaKing
I think it is liberal. It’s just a guy and some staffers putting info out on subjects...not a real curriculum, much less accredited etc.
I just noticed that there’s a place near us called The Northstar Academy. I looked it up and I think it’s a home schooling org. Christian.
I read somewhere that Bill Gates funds it.
Perhaps you should look at the humanities section to see if its adequately unbiased. Hard to bias mathematics and such though.
Of course they’re liberals. Rock-ribbed conservatives wouldn’t be producing free videos.
I’ve used some KA videos and they are pure instruction. Want to know how to perform an algebra function or what is Newton’s Second Law? Just watch the video. They aren’t like leftist public skoolz where every topic has to find a way back to racism, gay marriage, or global climate change.
No, not paranoid at all. Liberals are infiltrating all kinds of formerly conservtive institutions....non profits....religious organizations....you have to keep your guard up at all times for this. Even that KLOVE Christian radio network is now infiltrated by liberals. It’s everywhere....
i dont know i thought zero was number one these days
I’ve looked at Khan Academy, although not lately. My take, as of a couple of years ago when it was only a little famous, was that it provided short lecture insight on a wide variety of topics, but it presumed a much higher level of education—say high school. It did not strike me at that time as an organized teaching curriculum for the very young.
Khan is a brilliant guy who has tried to make available access to a wide variety of topics.
I am not aware that they had developed a curriculum for the young, though.
Good one. lol.
>>Perhaps you should look at the humanities section to see if its adequately unbiased.
I only use KA for math and hard science. I’m sure that anything in the humanities or soft sciences would have some bias, since those subjects actually are more bias than fact.
Oh course you are paranoid, you’d turning your back on public union employees and their education camps.
But look more at why you’re examining such websites - you have a clue as to what you want your children to learn. Start with the basics - language (reading, writing and speaking), mathematics, history and critical analysis.
Teach them about the value of money, and the value of hard work resulting in rewards.
Give your children the tools, rather than worry about some abstract lesson plan. Because in the end anything you miss in teaching can be quickly learned.
That’s what I was thinking, just watch the videos and screen them for bias.
Khan has been useful for test review and extra practice for my college prep students in physics and chemistry.
I would not trust it as a complete curriculum, particularly younger ones.
Look at the content specialist background for STEM:
Lisa
Lisa is the STEM Coordinator and Math Specialist at the Aventura City of Excellence School in Aventura, Florida, and a member of the editorial panel for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics journal Teaching Children Mathematics.
Lisa also presents nationally on Common Core Math and Singapore Math, blogs at mathspot.net, and designs mobile apps for Common Core Math.
Somebody was going to do it sooner or later ...
When I say that to my Indian co-workers, they have no idea what I’m talking about. Most were born years after that movie.
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