http://www.ted.com Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises, and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script -- give students video lectures to watch at home, and do "homework" in the classroom with the teacher available to help.
Kristina Ribali, parent of an online charter school student at Oregon Connections Academy, testifies before the Oregon House Revenue Committee on June 15, 2009 against SB 767 which could kill many online learning opportunities in Oregon.
Esther bracelets: http://www.dftba.com In which John discusses lemmings, the role the 1958 Disney documentary Winter Wilderness played in perpetuating the lie that lemmings commit suicide en masse, the limits of online video when it comes to education, Susan Sontag's book Regarding the Pain of Others, the Internet's fascination with decontextualized trivia, and a forthcoming vlogbrothers project.
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The public rally for educational reform in Chile has gone viral. Plus, are corporations taking advantage of open data projects in India that are designed to protect the poor from fraud and corruption?
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