Anyone else enjoy geeking out playing on Khan Academy?

[Vort]

Surely I'm not the only one.

(And no, my name is not really Shirley.)

[pam]

I think I picked the wrong day to quit playing video games.

[Vort]

I think I picked the wrong day to quit playing video games.

No, Khan Academy is a great place to satisfy your game jonesing. Have fun and learn.

[pam]

Nahhh I don't play video games. It just surely seemed to fit following your comment. (Realizing your name isn't Shirley).

[Vort]

D'oh.

[pam]

Sheesh Vort..get with it. Classic movie. :)

[NightSG]

Surely I'm not the only one.

Between Khan, Open Yale Courses and UMKC, I have kept myself up a lot of times that I shouldn't have. There are a lot of classes I'd like to take, but don't need credit for.

[slamjet]

I'm afraid. I'll never get any work done. Thus, I don't do any video games. I'll get way to obsessive.

[pam]

I spend enough time playing Song Pop on facebook to play anything else.

[Guest]

Hubby and I have been excited about Khan Academy since we heard about it, but neither of us has time or energy (at least not at the same time) to take advantage right now.

[NightSG]

Open Yale Courses

New York University - YouTube

https://www.coursera.org

[Blackmarch]

Surely I'm not the only one.

(And no, my name is not really Shirley.)

still waking up.. and the only thing i can think of in response to this is "KHAAAAAAANNNNNN!"

[Windseeker]

So I looked up Khan Academy and it's not a video game. It appears to be a website that has educational tutorials. What's addicting about it?

[NightSG]

So I looked up Khan Academy and it's not a video game. It appears to be a website that has educational tutorials. What's addicting about it?

The same thing as Wikipedia.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/the_problem_with_wikipedia.png

[Vort]

So I looked up Khan Academy and it's not a video game. It appears to be a website that has educational tutorials. What's addicting about it?

I dunno. It's just...addicting. You start doing the exercises, complete a unit, then every so often the site retests you on what you've done. When you finish the whole thing (I'm talking about the math), it's a continuing challenge to remember how to pull the vertices out of equations for parabolas or apply l'Hôpital's rule correctly -- or more likely, figure out again how to do those things.

And if you don't know something, Sal has a video explaining it. His videos are off-the-cuff, tend to be poorly organized, and are repetitive, redundant, and say the same thing over and over again. But they are effective. I learned more about solving ordinary differential equations by watching his videos than I ever learned taking a Diff Eq class.

[Connie]

"Repetitive, redundant, and say the same thing over and over again." Haha, i love you, Vort!

I agree with your assessment of Sal's videos. They are very poorly organized and repetitive, but they are effective. I think it's the repetition that makes them so. Saying the same thing in 10 different ways in one video does tend to get the point across. Love Khan Academy. Learning can be very addictive.

[Windseeker]

I saw the SAT Math section. I'll have to have my son look over those review videos. They look pretty good.

[Vort]

"Repetitive, redundant, and say the same thing over and over again." Haha, i love you, Vort!

<blush> Aw, shucks. Thanks. I wish I could claim ownership of that line, but I got it from the mouth of Frasier on an old episode of Cheers.

[BadWolf]

I haven't been able to get into Khan, yet... (Which, as an exHS'er is almost sacrilegious, I know!)

But am thoroughly addicted to TED TED | Talks | List

As well as ; Oxford/Cambridge/Yale/UCLA's complete coursework online (from syllabi, reading notes, power points, lecture notes, assignments, etc)

[mnn727]

I think I picked the wrong day to quit playing video games.

One of the top ten movies of all time.

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never heard of Khans Academy though