THE VIDEO SHELF · mastery learning
Let's teach for mastery -- not test scores | Sal Khan
Sal Khan of Khan Academy argues that schools push students forward with gaps in their foundations, and that students should instead master concepts at their own pace. He compares it to building a house on an unfinished foundation.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters cite it when discussing how gaps in basic knowledge pile up and how mastery learning could fix that.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- TED
- Topic
- mastery learning
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2016–2018
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I've run across this quote a few times recently and like it a lot. But there's always the nagging doubt / imposter syndrome telling that you don't really have taste either. Like the people who can taste good food, can't necessarily cook good food. Perhaps …
icc97 on Hacker News · 2017-01
In When You Are Depressed, Make SomethingI think a lot of people need to start from the basics because they don't have a good foundation in math. The core problem is schools will push you along if you can somehow produce the correct answer for 70% of the problems on a …
JesseAldridge on Hacker News · 2018-08
In Learning Math for Machine Learning
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