Has anyone not heard of Khan Academy?

[Potato]

Khanacademy

i learn more in 10 min from there than i can in 8 hours doing some science fair project.

[Ahab]

I SUCKED at math for years on end until I went to Khan Academy and started studying. Fucking awesome resource. If I had it when I was unschooling, I would have been way ahead of the game.

[LiptomaticMate]

I just slightly checked it out now, did a couple of math tasks. I'm at school and I find that waaay more interactive and fun than school. It was actually quiite fun Thanks! I'll definitely spend some time there

[LiptomaticMate]

I love it!

[LiptomaticMate]

Until I start hating it, now I do honestly love it, I love it, I love it.

[SomeRandomHuman]

Never heard of it till now. Too lazy to check it out now, maybe later.

[Potato]

i hope that people would break the notion that you have to go to school to be educated if they became more aware of resources such as this.

[SmokeyTheAggie]

I plan on doing some of the computer science classes when I get some free time. They had a episode about this on the show 20/20 a while back.

[LiptomaticMate]

I've been playing around on that site for the sake of fun. Not becasue It's neccessary. HAHA! Wouldn't have expected that if it wasn't like 6 years ago.

[Sunbourn]

My Trig teacher actually uses videos from KA to teach us material on occasions. It's an excellent resource for people who don't get it in class or for those who want to learn on their own without the help of school. Because of this site I am a fair bit ahead of the curve.

[iexist]

(11-12-2012 10:09 PM)Ahab Wrote:  I SUCKED at math for years on end until I went to Khan Academy and started studying. Fucking awesome resource. If I had it when I was unschooling, I would have been way ahead of the game.

you sound like an add for Khan

[IamNoone]

Cept khan academy is free. Your argument is invalid.

[Trekkie_Aspie]

Also too lazy to check it out now.

[TheCancer]

When I first started using Khan Academy it had this star cluster graphic that tracked your progress. It was like as you completed the skill sets the stars would brighten and connect with each other. I thought that was cool. I liked the system it used to help me visualize my progress. I earned all kinds of badges and all that. I watched banking videos, art history videos, reviewed algebra, learned some trig, calculus, physics. I was also making progress toward my goals.

Then they just dropped the star thing and switched to leaves. Suddenly the progress was all about leaves. Then they switched from leaves to blocks in a grid. Now it's hard to see my progress from the work I did two or three years ago. And they said my previous goals need to be changed to fit the new format. Plus, it's worthless on an iPhone and the app only plays videos that are already available on YouTube. My two complaints are why do they keep making annoying adjustments and fixing things that aren't broken and two why doesn't it work on my phone like every other website? It seems like all the kids I teach access the web primarily through their mobile device.

I'm not saying it's not still a great resource but if you tinker with something forever sooner or later you're going to mess it up.

[scorchededge243]

I've heard that the guy is sometimes wrong on a lot of the subjects, and someone like me who is stupid at math, I would not notice the difference. But I do like it even though I'm over loaded with resources.

[TheCancer]

Also, teaming up with Bank of America is not a good sign.

[Trekkie_Aspie]

(03-04-2014 09:38 AM)scorchededge243 Wrote:  I've heard that the guy is sometimes wrong on a lot of the subjects, and someone like me who is stupid at math, I would not notice the difference. But I do like it even though I'm over loaded with resources.

I'm sure he is sometimes wrong on a lot of the subjects. Thing is, it's unrealistic to expect him to get through any subject without a single mistake. I'm sure the schools are guilty of this too.

You know what the difference is though? The nature of Khan Academy means you can go verify it. (It's the 21st century - you should be doing that anyway) The nature of school is that you have to believe the crap or get a low grade....there's no way to check because homework takes that time away.