Salman Khan TED Talk 2011 (from ted.com)

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it to show Khan Academy's real model of mastery learning and teacher tools, often as a rebuttal to critics.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Khan Academy

Topic

online education

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2011–2012

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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• The OP seems to forget that the goal of the Khan Academy is not just to produce videos. Of course there's no feedback with a one-way video lesson. If you watch his (excellent) TED talk [1], you'll see that his organization isn't just about video …

• Feynman would probably say establish a rock solid base, fill in the gaps in your understanding, and explore all of the components surrounding your areas of interest (e.g. read the sources cited in the footnotes :-). "It's not quite true that Feynman could not accept …

• This is exactly what Sal, the founder of Khan Academy, believes. What strengthens this argument is that, if you miss a few logical steps you end up even more baffled when you encounter concepts that are build upon the concepts on which you neglected to …