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Let's use video to reinvent education | Salman Khan

TED · talk · Watch on YouTube

Education & learningFuturism & technology and society

What it is

Salman Khan explains why he created Khan Academy, a structured library of video lessons with interactive exercises. He calls on teachers to flip the classroom, with lectures watched at home and homework done in class with teacher help.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it as an inspiring pitch for video-based, flipped-classroom learning.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2011, last 2012

What HN commenters said

  1. “Watching Khan's TED talk[2] is pretty inspiring.”

    Salman Khan on flipping classrooms with video lessons

    statenjason, 2011-04 · Recommendation · in “What math (and programming) teachers should know about memory”

  2. “It's a great perspective on learning and (in the context of the topic I wrote about) failure.”

    Khan explains the teacher dashboard and a perspective on learning

    stevenkovar, 2012-04 · Recommendation

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: khan academy, flipped classroom, video lectures, education technology, ted

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