The trouble with Khan Academy

Robert Talbert:

At some point around the beginning of February 2012, David Coffey -- a co-worker of mine in the math department at Grand Valley State University and my faculty mentor during my first year -- mentioned something to me in our weekly mentoring meetings. We were talking about screencasting and the flipped classroom concept, and the conversation got around to Khan Academy. Being a screencaster and flipped classroom person myself, we'd talked about making screencasts more pedagogically sound many times in the past.

That particular day, Dave mentioned this idea about projecting a Khan Academy video onto the screen in a classroom and having three of us sit in front of it, offering snarky critiques -- but with a serious mathematical and pedagogical focus -- in the style of Mystery Science Theater 3000. I told him to sign me up to help, but I got too busy to stay in the loop with it.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at July 13, 2012 1:05 AM
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