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[Jill Valentine]

Has anyone experience of going through the material on https://www.khanacademy.org/ ?

I know there are some US centric study areas but otherwise it would seem like a good place to start for us slightly to strongly retarded folk.

Seems great for if you have kids. Could clock out the entire school curriculum long before your kid is fully grown, and get them to work on specific profession expertise.

 

[ManofOne]

Its a good learning tool for minors.

 

[Jethalal]

Has anyone experience of going through the material on https://www.khanacademy.org/ ?

I know there are some US centric study areas but otherwise it would seem like a good place to start for us slightly to strongly retarded folk.

Seems great for if you have kids. Could clock out the entire school curriculum long before your kid is fully grown, and get them to work on specific profession expertise.

Seems suited to US curriculum. Too low-level for my curriculum. But it's free and provides great intro to the topic and you can watch them before the class, then build upon that foundation.

 

[Papa]

Khan Academy is great. It's not just for kids. There have been a few times I've had to review mathematical concepts that I haven't studied in nearly 20 years and they have fantastic explanations. The main dude that does the voiceovers, Grant I think it is? One of the best tutors I've ever seen.

 

[diffusionx]

I feel like Khan Academy is objectively superior to the shit show that is the public education via zoom nightmare that governments are putting kids and parents through right now.

 

[lock2k]

slightly to strongly retarded folk.

 

[Tesseract]

khacadaemy is basically the socratic method which is the feynman method and it is king (or queen)

i was a moderator for a number of years at the foundation, top slot of the algebra and calculus forums

some things are worse now tho, the knowledge tree is gone but all the content is still available and completely free

it's probably the best way to master mathematics unless you wanna deep dive a bunch of useless tomes that use 100000 words where 100 will do

 

[AJUMP23]

I have used it with my kids, and my wife has used it to teach her students. I think it is pretty good. I have had some kids say they don't like the narrator or voice....

 

[Tesseract]

i still say there's something better to be unearthed

perhaps some kinda visual dex that unifies video content, modules, knowledge trees, hyperlinks, definitions

basically wolfram alpha and its computational equivalence concepts taken to the extreme

 

[TindalosPup]

Khan Academy saved my ass during Applied Statistics a couple years ago, it's also a helpful resource on some natural science topics (and almost any other topic you encounter in education)

I just wish I knew about it back when I was in highschool, I might have been valedictorian

 

[Jill Valentine]

I just wish I knew about it back when I was in highschool, I might have been valedictorian

I wish I had it as a child. I learned nothing schooling. Thought to be fair I can't REALLY learn anything at all.

Clear goal incentives like "completing" the website might've driven me to blow through everything on there, as opposed to being stretched for years by interminable overly-comfortable hand sitters who care not besides their pay increase.

 

[oagboghi2]

Seems suited to US curriculum. Too low-level for my curriculum. But it's free and provides great intro to the topic and you can watch them before the class, then build upon that foundation.

 

[Cockles & Whelks]

Well someone had to do it.

 

[mortal]

Khan Academy is pretty solid. Whether you have children or just want to brush up on some subjects for yourself.

 

[MiyazakiHatesKojima]

I prefer My Hero Academy.

 

[Tesseract]

I prefer My Hero Academy.

da fuq is that, better not be anime

 

[Tesseract]

i looked, it's anime

MHK, i'm sorry

trump's final executive order

 

[Jill Valentine]

I prefer My Hero Academy.

That was my joke title idea, but I wanted the Khan to stand out. Keep it clean and simple, unweebed.

 

[MiyazakiHatesKojima]

That was my joke title idea, but I wanted the Khan to stand out. Keep it clean and simple, unweebed.

@SLoWMoTIoN am cry.

 

[Tesseract]

@SLoWMoTIoN am cry.

exceptions must be made

 

[MiyazakiHatesKojima]

exceptions must be made

 

[eot]

I don't like videos as a learning resource, it's much harder to find the relevant bits and I don't like having to go at the pace that the video defines.

 

[Tesseract]

I don't like videos as a learning resource, it's much harder to find the relevant bits and I don't like having to go at the pace that the video defines.

i go the other way, this after reading hundreds of tomes

tbh it's prolly a left or right brain thing, are you right handed?

 

[FreedomOfSpeech]

Yah Khan Academy is great fo sho.

I should watch more of it. I remember some vids on photo synthesis I watched, quite enLIGHTening (harhar).

 

[Kazza]

Good to hear so many positive experiences with the site. I want to brush up on my math skills and thought about using it, but was afraid that it was only for kids. I plan to try to blow through the whole site over the course of this year. I'll report back once I've spent some time with it.

 

[Jethalal]

I wasn't kidding btw, we have a a very huge population so they have to make exams to remove students out of the race rather than choose them. Many children commit suicide too due to the overwhelming pressure.

 

[eot]

i go the other way, this after reading hundreds of tomes

tbh it's prolly a left or right brain thing, are you right handed?

Yup, but I'm not sure if that's the reason. People learn differently, I also know people who need to hear things explained for them to get it, but I have an easier time concentrating on written information.

 

[Tesseract]

Yup, but I'm not sure if that's the reason. People learn differently, I also know people who need to hear things explained for them to get it, but I have an easier time concentrating on written information.

it's probably part of the reason, same thing goes with learning to draw (see: drawing on the right side of the brain)

every lefty i know prefers video, i suggest the great courses for those types

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

@SLoWMoTIoN am cry.

I don't like MHA. But I understood the joke.



Reported.

 

[niveaformen]

I wish I had it as a child. I learned nothing schooling. Thought to be fair I can't REALLY learn anything at all.

Not sure if that is the case, but there's a highly rated course on Coursera called learning how to learn or something like that. It might be worth checking out before you head back into study.

 

[Tesseract]