Sunday, April 28, 2013

AN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE FOR STUDENTS / COACHES / TEACHERS


You may be interested in WWW.KHANACADEMY.ORG which provides EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES FOR STUDENTS, COACHES, TEACHERS. You may explore and make use for improving your Kindergarten to Intermediate (+2) studies.



Below is an excerpt about Khan Academy from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Academy

The Khan Academy started interactive, remote tutoring.
All videos (hosted via YouTube) are available through Khan Academy's own website, which also contains many other features such as progress tracking, practice exercises, and a variety of tools for teachers in public schools. Logging into the site can be done via a Google or a Facebook account for those who do not want to create a separate Khan Academy account. 
Khan chose to avoid the standard format of a person standing by a whiteboard, deciding instead to present the learning concepts as if "popping out of a darkened universe and into one's mind with a voice out of nowhere" in a way akin to sitting next to someone and working out a problem on a sheet of paper: "If you're watching a guy do a problem [while] thinking out loud, I think people find that more valuable and not as daunting".
Khan Academy also provides a web-based exercise system that generates problems for students based on skill level and performance. Khan believes his academy points an opportunity to overhaul the traditional classroom by using software to create tests, grade assignments, highlight the challenges of certain students, and encourage those doing well to help struggling classmates.The tutorials are touted as helpful because, among other factors, they can be paused by students, while a classroom lecture cannot be.
The success of his low-tech, conversational tutorials—Khan's face never appears, and viewers see only his unadorned step-by-step doodles and diagrams on an electronic blackboard—suggests an educational transformation that de-emphasizes lecture-based classroom interactions.