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Re:Parody Critiques Popular Khan Academy Videos by kiba on Friday June 29, 2012 @09:14AM (#4176423)
It might be a good philosophy and practical for classroom teaching, but he needs to use the advantages electronic media offers and do some editing. At least to remove anything that's really going to throw a student off and possibly even discourage them.

Leave the mistake in and then correct it.

Re:Parody Critiques Popular Khan Academy Videos by tocomment on Friday June 29, 2012 @09:17AM (#4176435)
I don't understand. Are you disagreeing?

I think leaving the mistake and correcting later is very confusing and possibly discouraging to students. What is your response to that?

Re:Parody Critiques Popular Khan Academy Videos by kiba on Friday June 29, 2012 @09:25AM (#4176466)
I think leaving the mistake and correcting later is very confusing and possibly discouraging to students. What is your response to that?

In the same video, note your mistake and correct it.

Re:Parody Critiques Popular Khan Academy Videos by p2e on Friday June 29, 2012 @10:57AM (#4176901)
Why not just re-record the video, or design the videos such that they can be stitched together from small manageable sub-videos that can be easily and quickly re-recorded. There are plenty of times when he "clears the screen" and these would be perfect opportunities to edit together "good" sub-videos in the lesson.

I don't see why you would want to leave the mistakes in there. Someone might not grasp the correction!

Re:Parody Critiques Popular Khan Academy Videos by tocomment on Friday June 29, 2012 @09:54AM (#4176595)
That would be better. I think a lot of times he doesn't realize the mistakes until they've been published. And maybe he has a rule he doesn't re-edit videos after they've been published?

I just remember getting incredibly frustrated after basically learning the wrong thing in the first video and then having it corrected in the second.

Re:Parody Critiques Popular Khan Academy Videos by p2e on Friday June 29, 2012 @10:59AM (#4176907)
My guess is that he doesn't edit videos after publishing because he likes the youtube stats?

Maybe youtube isn't the best medium for his videos and he should instead find an option that allows and easily facilitates future edits.