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It's Time for Technology to Disrupt Education

Larry Magid | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Grockit, Educational Technology, Education, Learning, Edtech, LearningJar, Socrative, Innovators, Disruptive Innovation, Edx, Taptolearn, Innovation, Khan Academy, Technology News

Thanks to technology, the world can be our teacher and the Internet our classroom. What should matter is not so much your degree or grade point average but how well equipped you are for the next stage in life.

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What Do Today's Students Think About the Future of Higher Ed? You Might Be Surprised

Jeff Selingo | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: College Students, College Costs, College Majors, Khan Academy, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Higher Education Students, Higher Education Reform, Higher Education Curriculum, College News

In the last month, I have talked with students at six institutions that represent nearly every corner of our diverse higher-ed system. My goal was to engage the students in the debates that seem to be swirling around them but so often don't include them.

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Khan Academy: Friend or Foe?

Eric Sheninger | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Sal Khan, Education, Education Reform, Khan Academy, Education News

As a tool Khan Academy will benefit educators, students, and parents in a quest for knowledge, practice, and reinforcement. It will not, however, be a game-changing reform agent as the private sector sees it.

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Innosight's Michael Horn on How 'Blended Learning' and Technology Can Bridge the Education Gap

Rahilla Zafar | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Clayton Christensen, Innosight Institute, Khan Academy, Michael Horn, Education Blended Learning, Blended Learning, Technology Education, Digital Education, Education News

Author Michael Horn predicts that in the future, the majority of students will be engaged in what he calls "blended learning" where they'll learn online with control over the pace of their learning in schools with teachers providing guidance.

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Are We All Deschoolers Now?

Pamela J. Stubbart | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Formal Education, Wikipedia, Education, Education Theory, Skillshare, Khan Academy, Informal Education, Ivan Illich, Deschooling, Hackspaces, Schooling, Education News

Ivan Illich's 1971 book, Deschooling Society, is a classic in the canon of "alternative" educational theory, and the source of one of my favorite quips on education.

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The Future of Education Reform

Douglas Crets | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Education Technology, Skillshare, Udemy, Online Education, Khan Academy, Ed Tech, Education Reform, Startups, Entrepreneurship, Small Business News

A certain generation works on the web, their conversation is actually more than just talk and relationships with politicians. It's proactive, active talk.

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All the Math Taught at University Can Be Outsourced. What Now?

Dr. Keith Devlin | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Steve Jobs, Apple, Inquiry-Based Learning, Flat World, Mathematics, Innovation, Outsourcing, STEM Education, Barack Obama, Project-Based Learning., Silicon Valley, Mathematical Thinking, Khan Academy, 60 Minutes, Education News

Every mathematical skill, procedure, or technique I learned over six years at university is now essentially obsolete from a US market perspective. If we cannot compete, then we need to play a different game.

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Khan Academy: Good, Bad, or Ugly?

Dr. Keith Devlin | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Math Teachers, Salman Khan, Mathematics Education, Mathematics, Bill Gates, Khan Academy, STEM Education, 60 Minutes, Silicon Valley, Eric Schmidt, Dan Meyer, Instructional Videos, Education News

People both for and against Khan Academy tend to portray the issues involved as black or white. But like most things in life, they are many shades of grey.

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Khan Academy Launches iPad App

Posted 03.22.2012

Read More: Educational Videos, TED-Ed Ipad App, Video, Education Videos, Ted-Ed, Khan Academy Ipad App, Ipad App Khan Academy, Khan Academy, Ted, Khan Academy Ipad, TED Ipad App, Education News

Popular video education hub Khan Academy launched an iPad application featuring more than 2,700 free videos on March 11. The app, which is now ava...

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Why Architecture Should Be For Introverts Too

| Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Architecture, School of One, Extroverted Architecture, Khan Academy, Introverts, Architecture for Introverts, Culture News

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Silicon Valley: Failing the Way to Better Education

Dr. Keith Devlin | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Education, Mathematics Education, Khan Academy, Palo Alto, Vinod Khosla, Silicon Valley, Palo Alto Startups, Technology Startups, Silicon Valley Startups, Failed Startups, Startup Failures, Technology News

If there is one thing Silicon Valley knows how to do, it is fail. We do it all the time, and that is the secret of our famed success.

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What Silicon Valley Executives Keep Getting Wrong About Education

Dr. Keith Devlin | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs, Education, Teaching-Practices, Khan Academy, Teaching With Technology, Silicon Valley, Education and Technology, Technology, Sal Khan, Silicon Valley Startups, Technology News

Successful Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who clearly understand the importance of understanding the market and testing how effective their products are seem to leave those important instincts at the door when they comment on K-12 education.

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Motivating Students and the Gamification of Learning

Shantanu Sinha | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Gamification, Education, Khan Academy, Video Games, Human Behavior, Learning, Education Techniques, Education News

You are probably thinking, "What's the minimum I can do to get an 'A' in this class, and what other extra-curricular activities can I add to my resume that colleges will like?" Sure, you may have straight A's, but you have no incentive to push yourself in the subject matter and explore your limits.

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Is Online Learning the Future?

Murray Rosenbaum | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Online Learning, Khan Academy, Isee, Online Learning K-12, High School News

I have been formulating this idea -- which may become a later blog post -- that if you make difficult things in life into games, people will gladly do them.

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Sal Khan: Celebrity Math Tutor

Matt Weber | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Sal Khan, Education, Khan Academy, Harvard, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Education News

The Harvard EdCast took a few minutes this month to get to know Sal Khan and candidly explore his pedagogy.

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Bay Area Leading the Learning Revolution

Tom Vander Ark | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Foundation for Excellence in Education, Learn-Capital, Formative Learning, Khan Academy, Desmos, Jeb Bush, New Schools Venture Fund, Verbling, Chromatiik, Edmodo, Education News

New York and Boston are home to the publishers; metro D.C. is home to the giants of learning online. But the Bay Area is poised to lead the learning revolution.

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Does Khan Academy Really Work?

Shantanu Sinha | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Education Technology, Education Reform, Khan Academy, Education, Video, Education News

With the student mastering core skills on the computer, the teacher can leverage the classroom time for more engaging and dynamic activities such as project-based learning, peer tutoring, or lively discussion.

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The Power of Compounding

Jason Alderman | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Interest Rates, Compound Interest, Khan Academy, Inflation, Saving Plans, Savings, Retirement Savings, Business News

Bottom line: Don't procrastinate on starting to save. And get your kids on the compounding bandwagon as well; they'll thank you once they reach your age.

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Get Out the Blender, Kids

John Merrow | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Public Education, Ed Reform, Education, Pbs, Pbs Newshour, Standardized Testing, Technology, John Merrow, Khan Academy, Blended Learning, Education News

'Virtual classes' qualify as blended learning, because most of those kids are enrolled in traditional high schools. That's a growth industry: Just a few years ago only eight states allowed virtual courses or schools; today, nearly 40 states allow it.

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Back to iSchool

Stephen Balkam | Posted 11.08.2011

Read More: Family Online Safety Institute, Fosi, Ischool, Facebook, Back to School, Stephen Balkam, Social Networking, Khan Academy, Education News

The debate over how best to integrate technology in schools, never mind the technology that kids bring to schools, will only intensify. Just take one example: social networking.

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Close the Math Gap

Priyamvada Natarajan | Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: Khan Academy, Math Education, Math, Debt Ceiling, Education News

There is a correlation between math education and the innovation needed to create jobs and spark an economy. Just look at the fact that the U.S. is outranked in the Global Innovation Index by countries such as Singapore, Finland, Korea and Japan.

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How Khan Academy Is Changing The Rules Of Education

Wired | Clive Thompson | Posted 09.16.2011

Read More: Virtual Lessons, Education, Digital Lessons, Homework, Itunes, Virtual Learning, Salman Khan, Computer Education, Computer Lessons, Bill Gates, Education Reform, Khan Academy, Ted, Education News

"This," says Matthew Carpenter, "is my favorite exercise." I peer over his shoulder at his laptop screen to see the math problem the fifth grader is p...

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Can Sal Khan Change America's Classroom?

HuffingtonPost.com | Alex Wagner | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Google, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Sal Khan, The New Carnegies, Bill Gates, Teachers Union, Khan Academy, Education Reform, Education News

The battle over America's classrooms -- featuring broom-wielding reformers pitted against long-powerful teacher's unions -- has created a firestorm of debate around the question of how best to educate students and prepare them for the 21st Century. Sitting on the sidelines of this battle -- however quietly, for now -- is a man named Sal Khan. A one-time hedge fund analyst, Khan has become an unlikely hero in education circles for his innovative methodology, one that turns the classroom dynamic upside down.

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Students as Change Agents in the Classroom

Joe Astroth | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Fast Company, Education, Khan Academy, Education Reform, Public Education, Discovery Channel, Education News

Students aren't confronted with an educator's impediments, so they might actually be in a better position to lead the charge.

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Google Announces 5 World-Changing Winners In Project 10 To The 100

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Khan Academy, Public.Resource.Org, Project 10 to the 100, Google Philanthropy, First, Shweeb, Video, Impact News

Over the past year, Google's Project 10 to the 100 contest has reviewed 150,000 proposals to change the world from more than 170 countries. The Proj...

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