Today I watched the TED talk about the Khan academy on tube. Khan Academy is a non-profit educational website created in 2006 by educator Salmon Khan, a graduate of MIT and Harvard Business School. My son is five and is still a little young to use Khan Academy, but I know friends who use it regularly with their children.
Within a traditional classroom, some teachers "flip" the classroom and have students watch Khan Academy for homework, and then have students do the "work" in the classroom. Khan's goal is for students to, "Do as long as you can until you can achieve mastery." There are videos on such things as decimals, fractions, calculus, etc.
Not only will you watch a lecture on the topic, but then there are questions that generate as many questions as needed to help students really get the concept and achieve mastery. Students can watch at own time, own place. They can also watch in the intimacy of their own comfortable room. One can pause, repeat, and stop for the night at own time. In the TED talk, Salmon Khan said that, "If Isaac Newton had done these videos on calculus, he wouldn't have to!
Resources:
KHAN ACADEMY
https://www.khanacademy.org
https://www.youtube.com/user/khanacademy (Salmon Khan talk at TED 2011)
TED TALK, KHAN ACADEMY
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