by Seth Saavedra, Teach for America
If you’ve followed ed tech chatter these past few weeks, then you know that the buzz around Khan Academy, the popular online repository of educational videos voiced by the charismatic Sal Khan, has taken a rather negative tone ever since two teachers at Grand Valley State University created “Mystery Teacher Theater 2000”—in the style of Mystery Science Theater 3000—a scathing response to a Khan video lesson about negative numbers. Let’s keep the dialogue going without undermining our most promising new ideas. While there will— and should—be continued critical feedback for Khan Academy and its teaching methodologies, we can’t let perfect be the enemy of good. The future of education is sorting itself out as I type—Khan himself acknowledges his organization has a ways to go. In the end, face-to-face learning isn’t endangered by ideas like Khan Academy, it’s being enriched.
http://www.teachforamerica.org/blog/cut-sal-khan-and-khan-academy-some-slack
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