Re:Khan Academy: the bad
by throwa_way on Sunday April 10, 2011 @11:51AM
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This actually points out the issue perfectly: Khan Academy is great for people who are actually interested in learning. They seek out the website themselves and are already motivated to watch. General education seems to me like it contains a lot of teaching things to the unwilling.
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At the community college there is a lot of unwillingness, as you put it. It's what makes the job tough. I care much more about my students' education than most of them do.
I'm bad at motivating people. I suspect that to be a great teacher one should be great at motivating people. Knowledge of the subject isn't as important as I once thought it was.
What is a problem now is that there is no current mechanism for the self motivated to use Khan Academy or MIT's open courseware and get credit for it.