For all of our advancements in technology, education has changed very little in the past 100 years.
Kids go to school, listen to their teachers then come home to struggle doing their assignments using only their memory, text books and maybe good notes to guide them.
Don't even ask a parent to help.
But what if there was another way?
Not to replace the role of teachers, but to help students understand subjects from world-class experts in the materials.
It's already here.
The Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization created in 2006, by Salman Khan.
It's mission is "providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere".
The website supplies a free online collection of more than 2,300 video tutorials stored on YouTube teaching mathematics, history, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, and economics.
In this ideal new world, students watch the videos and then use the in class time to work with others, collaborating with each other and their teachers.
And anytime they need to get a refresher on the subject, a short video will guide their way.
Each video tutorial is about 10 minutes long. Why 10 minutes? Because that's the limit YouTube placed on the original videos. But after posting, Khan has learned that a 10 minute video is the right amount of time to understand a topic.
To browse the library of video lectures, click
HERE
As a sample, here is an example of Sal explaining simple equations.
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