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Sunday, April 17, 2011

The Bill Gates - Salman Khan "Big Brother" Education Strategy - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarter. About Education.

The Bill Gates - Salman Khan "Big Brother" Education Strategy - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smarter. About Education.

The Bill Gates - Salman Khan "Big Brother" Education Strategy

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" . . .So That Teachers Can Diagnose What's Wrong with the Student."

Yeah, yeah, it's all "there."
Any kid's dashboard will be up "there" - "anyone can access it."

- Salman Khan

A Frankenstein Moment
?
TED Video Below

by C.J. Westerberg

I'm cutting to the chase. Anyone who has ever seen this TED video - watch it again.

This time, start at the 10:00 minute mark, or even the 12:30 mark. You will get a different perspective.

This talk has been seemingly everywhere of late, and while never feeling the need to watch it since The Daily Riff was familiar with Khan Academy (positively covering it last year when it was gaining notoriety), I finally succumbed and watched it in its entirety.

Glad I did.

Being a fan of many TED videos, I found this one to be the most info-mercial-like in format and tone. Especially in the last few minutes when Bill Gates joins Kahn, providing obvious pre-programmed questions answered with overly-scripted buzz-word answers by Kahn
("kinda crazy, rock star programmers"), along with TEDsters wildly clapping like seals.
I thought, did you hear what they were really saying?

Being a vocal advocate for tech in education in its many forms, I still will not blindly clap at