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.
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We’re trying to get in touch with the folks at Khan Academy who are in charge of translations… but wouldn’t it be neat if the videos could be translated into Swahili, and accessed by East African youth?