Parody Critiques Popular Khan Academy Videos
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#2Would it not have been better to create a genuine video on how the concepts can be explained better instead of making fun of the course videos. Or better yet, launch a competing site instead of nitpicking.
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#3My own critique from watching a few videos on Khan Academy is that I hate how he makes mistakes sometimes and just leaves them in. (And corrects them in the next video)
I know that's his philosophy. But as someone who's a rules-based learner, it makes it really hard to learn anything when I start focusing on a mistake and wondering how does this fit with the general rule, etc.
And beyond that I find it much harder to unlearn something wrong than to learn the right thing to begin with.
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.
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#4If you want people to learn "problem solving", not just "following the rule to solve a particular equation", learn programming and apply your mathematical skill to a programming problem?
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#5My own critique from watching a few videos on Khan Academy is that I hate how he makes mistakes sometimes and just leaves them in. (And corrects them in the next video) I know that's his philosophy. But as someone who's a rules-based learner, it makes it really hard to learn anything when I start focusing on a mistake and wondering how does this fit with the general rule, etc. And beyond that I find it much harder to…
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.
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#6My own critique from watching a few videos on Khan Academy is that I hate how he makes mistakes sometimes and just leaves them in. (And corrects them in the next video) I know that's his philosophy. But as someone who's a rules-based learner, it makes it really hard to learn anything when I start focusing on a mistake and wondering how does this fit with the general rule, etc. And beyond that I find it much harder to…
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.
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?
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#7Haters Gonna Hate!
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#8I do agree with some of the issues presented here. Khan teaches you how to solve many math problems, but he rarely mentions how you could use it in real life. But if you go to the Q&A section you will rarely see this brought up.
I do find it appalling that their approach is making a parody video instead of presenting a better solution. Instead of wasting their time—and mine— making fun of Khan, it would have been immensely more useful presenting a video of how their approach is better.
This is something I love about the development community (even though I'm not a developer myself). If someone thinks he has a better solution to your problem he sends a pull request and boom: the better solutions are often obvious.
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#9I do agree with some of the issues presented here. Khan teaches you how to solve many math problems, but he rarely mentions how you could use it in real life . But if you go to the Q&A section you will rarely see this brought up. I do find it appalling that their approach is making a parody video instead of presenting a better solution. Instead of wasting their time—and mine— making fun of Khan, it would have been im…
If you sit and watch the video itself it's a very mild form of parody. They are actually commenting on the presentation given by the Khan Academy video and their comments make clear how they believe multiplication of negative numbers should be taught.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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?
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.