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Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education

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Wed, 03/09/2011 - 11:27 — Robert Daeley

Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises, and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script -- give students video lectures to watch at home, and do "homework" in the classroom with the teacher available to help.


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Mon, 03/28/2011 - 11:55 — Molly Large

Reverse instruction

I've shared the concept of reverse instruction with a few of the groups I've worked with, and many teachers are really intrigued with the concept. When homework is wto watch the lecture, students never have the issue of not remembering how to do it!