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