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Monthly Archives: March 2011

[video] Revolutionizing Education?

“First time I smiled doing a derivative” – a comment on one of Khan Academy’s videos on YouTube Salman Khan speaks at the TED conference and talks about much more than a few educational videos. He calls for teachers to consider “flipping the traditional classroom” — give students video lectures to watch at their own [...]

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[preso] Flip the Curve: Getting better student outcomes with less $

As my son approaches kindergarten I’ve been doing my best to make sense of the various school options in our area. And, because I’m anal to the 10th degree, this involves touring whatever we can, accosting neighboring parents and friends spontaneously and sporadically for info, and trying to get past the (middlin’) test score valuation [...]

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