[Maths-Education] Re: The Khan Academy

[Dylan Wiliam]

Not sure whether being forced to watch the videos constitutes cruel and unusual punishment, but many maths lessons I have observed would certainly have qualified...

Dylan

On 18 Mar 2012, at 16:48, Tanner, Howard wrote:

> Reading some of the blogs, it seems that some pupils are "inspired" to find other ways of learning the maths so that they can avoid watching the videos. This includes forming study groups to find ways to solve the exercise questions.
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> This may be quite helpful and the issue becomes an ethical one.
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> Is being forced to watch the videos a cruel and unusual punishment?
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> Howard
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> Sent: 18 March 2012 07:59
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> Subject: [Maths-Education] Fwd: The Khan Academy
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> Colleagues. I wonder if anyone has an informed view on "The Khan Academy" a website which seems to have hundreds of maths instruction videos on YouTube.
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> http://www.khanacademy.org<http://www.khanacademy.org/>
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> Its been suggested to me as "inspirational " but I've looked at some and have been quite underwhelmed. Am I missing something here?
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> Peter Gates
> University of Nottingham
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