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Helpful Science Resources for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

It offers a plethora of resources, including professional development opportunities, web seminars, and classroom activities. Khan Academy This free resource offers comprehensive courses in various science subjects, complete with videos, practice exercises, and a personalized learning dashboard.

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Video Assignments Are the New Term Paper. How Does That Change Teaching and Learning?

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This semester I’m teaching a graduate seminar on education and technology for Georgetown University. And new kinds of educational institutions have emerged, like the nonprofit Khan Academy , with its thousands of free educational videos on a wide range of subjects. This is part 3. Read part 1 and part 2.

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Why Flipped Learning Is Still Going Strong 10 Years Later

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Early this decade there was perhaps no one person—not even Bergmann or Sams—more associated with flipping the classroom than Sal Khan, due in no small part to the more than 140 million views his Khan Academy videos had racked up by 2012. But to hear Khan tell it, that association was little more than a coincidence of timing.

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How Khan Academy’s Founder Designs a Brick and Mortar School for Kids

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After some 10,000 online tutorials in 10 years, Sal Khan still starts most days at his office desk in Silicon Valley, recording himself solving math problems for his Khan Academy YouTube channel. Most Fridays, the lunch option includes a Socratic dialogue with Khan himself on a wide range of issues, ideas and trends.

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Sal Khan’s New Online School Wants to Make ‘Mastery Learning’ Global

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The students had enrolled in the latest effort by Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, the online tool he started by making videos on YouTube that is now used by hundreds of districts in the U.S. Khan’s new project is a fully online school with a mix of self-paced online learning and group activities.

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?Are We Recreating Segregated Education Online?

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These are the resources that are typically still free like MOOCs, Khan Academy videos, TED videos, and some adaptive learning platforms. These tend to be small seminar-style workshop classes hosted online—or customized certificate options built into larger online courses.