After a lot deliberation, Dan Meyer plus I are very pleased to help claim the winners on this summer's for any most entertaining in addition to enlightening movie getting Khan Academy .
Of course, the genuine winners with the actual opposition will be anyone who seem to appeared really at Khan Academy (and looked critically at it's critics) in addition to made a far more nuanced view. If after looking through several on the dialogue created about Khan Academy this specific summer, you have a much better position that Khan Academy is definitely and then I'm gratified to acquire played a small role in nudging the conversation.
But this specific publish is approximately the prize winners! And you'll find a number of wonderful videos.
Grand Prize
The Grand Prize, by way of unanimous judgement (and virtually the success from the People's Choice as well) is usually Michael Pershan's What in the event Khan Academy ended up being Made in Japan? There had been a pair of major different types of videos: models that critiqued the particular pedagogical movements within Khan's talks (the style is actually well articulated by Chris Danielson plus Michael Goldenberg in print the following ) in addition to versions which elevated requests about within the overall technique to help learning articulated through Khan and colleagues. Michael's training video was the best in the latter category.
Michael's part will be meticulously researched, charmingly presented, presents an incisive evaluate in the Khan/Flipped paradigm, in addition to concludes using an example of an alternative model. Dan in addition to I likewise have blogger-crushes about him, and also all of us assume he's making wonderful internet additions to business schooling by way of Math Mistakes , their web log , in addition to his . And he's yet another year instructor around NYC, so unless of course he's available several stock to fork out for a relaxed lifestyle, he can almost certainly make use of a couple bucks.
People's Choice Award
The People's Choice award, voted on by people the actual people, is going that will Dr. Tae's The History with the Korean War delivered to people by UniversiTae and also given you simply by Dr. Tae. It is, by far, this funniest with the entries, and surely one of the ones nearly all imbued with the satirical soul with the primary MTT2K. It provides between the best production prices of the entries, along with strolling a tier between childish in addition to savage which departs a person wondering in which he has poking at Khan along with wherever he's just simply aiming with regard to laughs. Be forewarned, it is a pretty intense critique.
Second Place
The subsequent place one who did that had been Kate Nowak's commentary with Khan's video concerning the Coordinate Plane. Kate's training video is actually between the ones that address Khan's pedagogical techniques inside each lecture. It's some sort of considerable critique, featuring particular details with praise, probing questions, and also zeroed in on concerns.
As some sort of non-math educator, among the items that I mastered out of observing the entire set connected with video lessons ended up being your tremendous interesting depth involving math-teaching knowledge found in this cost education community. Experienced educators, researchers, and also teachers illustrating coming from analysis use a vibrant good sense of in which young children are likely to get stuck, and also that sorts connected with blunders that novice instructional math educators, possibly well known ones, may possibly make. Kate's video does a new excellent position of surfacing the following math-teaching wisdom.
Another of my own favourite characteristics is usually this because your lady employs Mozilla's Popcorn Maker , it's actually a easy type to emulate. If cost educators as well as division leads are thinking associated with utilizing a strong #MTT2K exercise for the training or in-service, Kate exhibits a product that men will use and not using a mass of time or maybe specialized skill.
Third Place
And your third place will go in order to Susan Jones, primarily for your introduction of talking robots. Was it excessive to help ask, people? Talking robots? Could I have made it more clear this all of us wanted chatting robots? Susan thought, "no, Justin, that was not excessive in order to ask" therefore your lover receives 100 bucks. She boasts an incredible analysis with some sort of Khan video about exponents, a neat choice presentation, in addition to your lady used this particular while a venture to teach their self animation. In the nature connected with many excellent learners, she posted several drafts with the similar video because contest travelled on.
Conclusion
To all of the Khan-test entrants, thanks in your input to help the public dialogue, and I would likely support anyone to some slide afternoon as long as you're preventing grading a add up regarding papers. Special brings up fall out to help Gary Rubenstien pertaining to keeping the most entries, Rhett Allain pertaining to provoking the most vitriolic reaction, along with to be able to John Golden in addition to David Coffey to get positioning some rubbish about the Internet that will going your summer season associated with very profitable conversation.
In the few days ahead, I may submit much more roughly about just what exactly I acquired on the #MTT2K chats this summer: probably anything about the role as well as electric power of satire plus probably one thing else upon my own carry out Khan's micro-pedagogy within just lectures as well as his organization's more substantial approach. Maybe Dan will place with a version of those things, and I'll have a bust in addition to simply check out that.
For now, I'll keep on this thought: your mass media features a vested involvement in lionizing technologies and selecting silver precious metal bullets (to blend metaphors, which may produce useless were-lions). The future solutions many of us need is going to be nuanced along with contextual. This is just not a final time educators will have to motivate backside on the media from the ed-tech space and have for a few lower conversations.
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