Let's get Salman Khan (khanacademy.org) on the TED stage

Re:Let's get Salman Khan (khanacademy.org) on the TED stage by dctoedt on Sunday October 03, 2010 @05:56PM (#1753730)

> "Good enough" is not only disrespectful to the student but completely unnecessary given the quality and cost of great content production tools available the past four years.

Evidently a LOT of people disagree with you.

Mr. Khan seems to have an MVP (minimum viable product). Just possibly this is one of those cases where if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

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Re:Let's get Salman Khan (khanacademy.org) on the TED stage by johnohara on Sunday October 03, 2010 @06:46PM (#1753867)

MVP -- maybe, if that's what he wants. But I don't care if everybody disagrees with me. It's pedagogically broken.

This is a new instructional medium, with new rules and huge opportunities. My point: We can do a lot better.

I'm gonna stand over here and wait for some of the fanboy nonsense to die down. Sal's been around for a while and a LOT of people are new to him.

Let him do what he does best, and leave TED out of it.

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Re:Let's get Salman Khan (khanacademy.org) on the TED stage by nocman on Sunday October 03, 2010 @09:25PM (#1754207)

Actually, the pedagogy of his videos is the thing that the opposite of "broken". Khan has an excellent teaching style, and gets his points across rather well. So calling it "pedagogically broken" is completely ridiculous. If you had said it was "productionally broken" you might have an argument (although, I'm not sure "productionally" is really a word :-D ).

Khan could indeed use fancier tools to produce his short videos, but what really makes them valuable is the content. I don't see that the current presentation style detracts from the teaching value one bit.

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