by Murray Rosenbaum 14-year-old student in New York, Huffington Post
Salman Khan is the creator of the website and is the only person who has made and posted all 2,700 current videos! He is a teacher who had a student sick one day, and the student asked him if he could post the lesson on YouTube. Salman went ahead and told the lesson to a camera and posted it on YouTube that night. That same student came in the next day and understood the topic more than anyone. Salman was puzzled by this, then the kid said to Salman, “I learned much faster from the YouTube version of you.” Salman asked why, and the student replied, “Because I could pause you, rewind you, or fast-forward you.” The reason why I loved what this student said is that whenever any student asks a teacher to repeat something more than once, they get agitated. The ability to stop, rewind, or fast-forward really makes a difference in learning. Salman continued this quest still to this moment, and he has made videos on math, geography, history, trigonometry, physics, the recent SOPA bill, and even banking!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/murray-rosenbaum/is-online-learning-the-fu_b_1224405.html
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