In action research, as with all research, the first step is to determine what is to be investigated. Your focus should be on your own practice, involve something within your locus of control, be about something you feel passionate about, and provide answers to something you would like to change or improve. CATEGORIES OF ACTION […]
Please bear with me now as I segue into a very different sort of intersection between the Khan Academy and the real world— the real world of grown-ups interested in lifelong learning and in maintaining active minds. Back in 2008, when the worldwide credit crisis was paralyzing markets and causing banks to fail, I, like […]
Teens in Motion adopts the orientations of the Communicative Language Teaching approach, which focuses on developing students’ communicative competence through the use of pair and group work activities, role-plays, and project work. It also includes contributions of other approaches, especially the Task Based Learning and the Cooperative Language Learning. Quoting Richards, “students are asked to […]
My name is Sal Khan. I’m the founder and original faculty of the Khan Academy, an institution serious about delivering a free education to anyone, anywhere, and I’m writing this book because I believe that the way we teach and learn is at a once-a-millennium turning point. The old classroom model simply doesn’t fit our […]
A few short years ago, Khan Academy was known only to a handful of middle-school kids—relatives and family friends. How and why, from those intimate beginnings, did awareness of the site spread to a worldwide community of people of all ages and economic conditions who were hungry to learn? W hy did students tell their […]