12 Inspiring Schools Using Khan Academy. Over the past few years, Khan Academy has grown from a few simple YouTube videos into a fully-featured, interactive educational system that allows students to learn and measure their progress at their own pace.
It has drawn the attention of big names like Bill Gates and is being used in some form at hundreds of schools nationwide. In short, it’s pretty hot right now, and you’d be remiss as an educator or a student not to check out what it has to offer. Whether you want to use it as a study tool for your own education or bring it in as an alternative way for students in your classes to learn a subject, it’s simple and free to get started with Khan Academy. This is perhaps a large part of the reason why it’s proving so popular nationwide. Here, we’ve highlighted some of the many schools that are using Salman Khan’s instructional videos to teach, learn, share, and grow from elementary school to high school.
Free Engineering Video Lecture courses. RSA Animate - The Secret Powers of Time. 100 Apps for Tech-Savvy Teachers. Are you a teacher now or studying to become one in the future?
Have you been looking for a handy list of digital apps that will help you organize your life inside and outside the classroom? Well, you have come to the right place. With the world around us becoming more technologically advanced every day, developers are creating apps designed specifically to make your life as an educator easier. Check out our 100 helpful apps below! If you’re pressed for time or you simply don’t want to scroll through them all, click on the category you are looking to skip ahead to: Classroom Learning Communication Tools Personal Organization Reference Teaching Tools Classroom Learning 1. 4 Dice: Fraction Games “The goal of the game is to hit the target by working backwards Jeopardy style by giving the answer first.
. - Justin Holladay, math teacher and game developer. Download: iOS 2. 5 Dice: Order of Operations - Justin Holladay Download: iOS. $(KGrHqF,!ikE5erjTlPMBObUptzIRg~~60_3.JPG (JPEG Image, 800 × 592 pixels) 10 Awesome Online Classes You Can Take For Free. Cool, but you need iTunes for nearly everything, and that gets an 'F.' Are there really no other places to get these lessons?
I was sure there are some on Academic Earth. Flagged 1. 7 of them are available via YouTube. 2. iTunes is free. Qwiki. The Higher-Education Bubble Has Popped - Doug French. A college degree once looked to be the path to prosperity.
In an article for TechCrunch, Sarah Lacy writes, "Like the housing bubble, the education bubble is about security and insurance against the future. Both whisper a seductive promise into the ears of worried Americans: Do this and you will be safe. " But the jobs that made higher education pay off during the inflationary boom, kicked into high gear by Nixon waving goodbye to the last shreds of a gold standard, came primarily from government and finance. In 1990, 6.4 million people worked for federal, state, and local governments. By 2010, that number had grown almost 6 times — to 38.3 million — with many of these jobs being white-collar. In 1990, the financial sector was less than 7.5 percent of the S&P 500. "Prices and wage rates boom," writes Mises. Times have changed. Last week, HSBC Holding Plc announced plans to eliminate 30,000 jobs worldwide by the end of 2013.
Goldman Sachs plans to cut 1,000 positions. But why? Khan Academy. "How to Write a Paper at the Last Minute (Also Known As: The Procrastinator's Guide to BS-ing an Essay)" by Jessica L. Let's face it: we've all been there.
It's 9 p.m. on a Sunday night, and you have a 15-page research paper due tomorrow that you have barely started. You've had a month to do it, but somehow, all you've managed is to check out a few books from the library and jot down a working thesis. You've checked Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, FMyLife, PerezHilton, and CollegeHumor (obviously) each about a million times, and now you're finally left staring at a blank Microsoft Word document, a cold dread settling into your stomach.
So what now? Take it from a veteran procrastinator: all hope is not lost.