That's the vision in a nutshell although Khan goes into greater depth and expands the concept of learning. Teachers are available to help but students can help each other as well. This book more or less outlines Khan's vision for the future of schools: that each student should learn according to his own pace and learning style, the fundamentals would be presented in short videos available online or DVDs that would be watched whenever the student wants and class time would be devoted to actual practical application of the fundamentals.
I wish I could make it mandatory reading for every teacher in the world! I didn't know he had published a book, so when I happened upon his article in Time magazine this week, I immediately downloaded the book. Salman Khan of the Khan Academy is someone I have admired since I first heard of him earlier this year and a kindred spirit I believe. Many of my unconventional methods were stumbled upon or found by trial and error.
I don't have a background in education but have been quite successful in teaching my students. I am an English teacher in Israel in the Bedouin sector, a sector with multiple handicaps in education. More than just a solution, THE ONE WORLD SCHOOLHOUSE serves as a call for free, universal, global education, and an explanation of how Khan's simple yet revolutionary thinking can help achieve this inspiring goal. In THE ONE WORLD SCHOOLHOUSE, Khan presents his radical vision for the future of education, as well as his own remarkable story, for the first time. Schools seek his advice about connecting to students in a digital age, and people of all ages and backgrounds flock to the site to utilise this fresh approach to learning. And his core idea - liberating teachers from lecturing and state-mandated calendars and opening up class time for truly human interaction - has become his life's passion. Like many innovators, Khan rethinks existing assumptions and imagines what education could be if freed from them. Today millions of students, parents, and teachers use the Khan Academy's free videos and software, which have expanded to encompass nearly every conceivable subject and Academy techniques are being employed with exciting results in a growing number of classrooms around the globe. A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere: this is the goal of the Khan Academy, a passion project that grew from an ex-engineer and hedge funder's online tutoring sessions with his niece, who was struggling with algebra, into a worldwide phenomenon.
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