Showing posts with label khan academy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label khan academy. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Khan Academy is Amazing.

I was first introduced to the khanacademy videos on YouTube over a year ago. They are great. Simple and concise explanations of difficult concepts. At first, I thought the Khan Academy only produced videos about science topics.


But no. There are more. Many, many more videos. On all sorts of topics.


Here is just a taste: algebra; chemistry; biology; physics; art history; finance; history; and many other social studies and humanities topics.






Up until now, I was quite content to watch the video on my own and prepare for future lessons. But then I spent a little time poking around the site and discovered a fantastic way to engage the students.


If you register as a COACH, and then have you students register as STUDENTS, you can track your students` progress and they watch the videos and practice the concepts through a variety of activities.


For each lesson you teach, you can suggest a video to your students--as a preview of the concepts or as a review of the concepts after you have taught the lesson.


From speaking with students who have used the videos in this manner, they really like the ability to pause, write and reflect about the concepts being presented.


And hopefully, no matter which way you use the videos, the concepts will stick and our students will be more successful.