Salman Khan on TEDTALKS 2011, Lets use video to reinvent education.

This is one mans story about how he started with a simple idea, it became a
new way of life for him, helped a lot of teachers and students and could be the
future of classrooms.
Do not worry about understanding the opening of the video, he is showing off
some of his analyst skills which are not important to the main ideas of the talk.
Vocabulary (Note: There are many math terms in this video you dont need to
know, skip over them: calculus, derivative, matrix text, decimals, fractions .)
Salman Khan tells how he got started and says, he was an analyst at a hedge
fund and he started tutoring his cousins remotely. A hedge fund is a product
of a stock market (Wall Street) and an analyst who works for a hedge fund
would be someone who is very good at
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How do you tutor remotely?
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How are these terms related? supplement and nice to have
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What does he mean when he says his cousins preferred the automated version
of him more than the real person?
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Define the following terms in your own words:
Intuitive
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random
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autism
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to dawn on me
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Scanning and Comprehension Questions
How many videos did they have as of 2011?
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How many people were watching the videos and how many videos per day?
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How or why did he get started creating the videos?
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What feedback did he get from his cousins?
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Why does he say it makes sense that his cousins preferred him on youtube
rather than in person?
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What does he mean when he says, Here I was, an analyst at a hedge fund, it
was very strange for me to do something of social value.?
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What does he mean when he says, this content will never grow old ?
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He says he thought what he was doing would be good for
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didnt think it would ______________________________the classroom.
Then, he started getting letters from teachers saying they used his videos to flip
the classroom.
What does that mean?
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Describe some of the obvious benefits of flipping the classroom.
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He says that it is unintuitive that technology was now being used to humanize
the classroom. Explain your understanding of this.

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Khans paradigm worked for tutoring his cousins but he asked how he could take
this further?
His Paradigm for learning is:
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He says this is fundamentally different than what is happening in classrooms
now. Explain what he says happens now in traditional classrooms.
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He says the traditional model ___________________ you for experimentation and
failure and
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His model ___________________ experimentation and failure but _________ expect
mastery.
He shows how a knowledge map is created for an entire course and the progress
of each student can be tracked. How would this help both students and teachers?
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He ends by saying, when we can use technology to humanize the classroom. It
is not simply increasing the time a teacher can spend with a student, it is
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and he sees a ______________________________________ classroom emerging.

Write a brief reflection about how you think the idea of flipping the classroom
might work for your classrooms or for English teaching.
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