{"id":76,"date":"2012-06-30T12:02:17","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T12:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rosarioconsulting.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/?p=76"},"modified":"2012-07-21T02:41:25","modified_gmt":"2012-07-21T02:41:25","slug":"how-can-youtube-support-great-teachers-can-we-flip-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/how-can-youtube-support-great-teachers-can-we-flip-education\/","title":{"rendered":"How can YouTube support great teachers? Can we flip education?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Finspiredtoeducate.net%2Finspiredtoeducate%2Fhow-can-youtube-support-great-teachers-can-we-flip-education%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n<p>As a student, I want to learn and succeed in my classes for a variety of personal motivations. \u00a0 I believe that I thrive when my teachers cared about me enough to give me individualized attention.\u00a0\u00a0 How do we encourage this style of teaching?\u00a0\u00a0 To answer this question, I would like to introduce you to one of my favorite teachers.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed my <a title=\"UCF CS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eecs.ucf.edu\/index.php?id=home_cs\" target=\"_blank\">graduate computer science (CS) education at UCF<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 I, however, can especially remember my algorithms class very clearly.\u00a0\u00a0 Algorithms, one of the first CS courses I took after working as a professional software guy for five years, nearly broke me.\u00a0\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Writing business applications for years really involves math concepts that you pick up in elementary school.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I had not used math skills like calculus, linear algebra or differential equations during that period of my life.\u00a0 In the first week of class, many of peers and I felt like we were just run over by a bus because we needed to re-gain expert knowledge of these topics.<\/p>\n<p>I survived that class for three main reasons:<\/p>\n<p>(1) Arup Guha is a wonderful teacher.<\/p>\n<p>(2) Arup invested a lot of time with his students outside the lecture to make sure they were not left behind.\u00a0 He really cared about you and that you owned the knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>(3) During the class, I formed some great relationships with my peers.\u00a0 We would study together constantly.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t remember the name of every teacher I have had. \u00a0 I, however, will always remember Arup.<\/p>\n<p>Is there a way that great teachers can give more individualized attention to students during class room time?<\/p>\n<p>I would like to introduce you to the <a href=\"http:\/\/khanacademy.org\" target=\"_blank\">khanacademy.org<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Founded by Salman Khan, the organization has the mission of &#8220;changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education to anyone anywhere.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 I believe that Mr. Khan&#8217;s work might be one of the great positive revolutions and innovations in education.\u00a0\u00a0 This is exactly what we need!\u00a0\u00a0 To learn more about Khan Academy, I invite you to review his TED talk below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nTFEUsudhfs\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What is the impact of these ideas? Quotes from viewers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;i&#8217;m impressed and feel inspired to create some videos on science.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;This guy is absolutely amazing. A true world-changer.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Amazing. Truly innovative.\u00a0 This is the true purpose and essence of the internet.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Sal deserves a nobel peace prize!! He is responsible for helping me pass Physics, Earth Science,and Math!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;it was very strange for me to do something of social value&#8221; great line&#8230;.something to aspire to!&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As technology professionals, how do we support teachers who might consider flipping their class room?<\/p>\n<p>How do we minimize the cost of change in teaching style?<\/p>\n<p>For teachers who are flipping their class room, what do you do during your class time?<\/p>\n\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Finspiredtoeducate.net%2Finspiredtoeducate%2Fhow-can-youtube-support-great-teachers-can-we-flip-education%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a student, I want to learn and succeed in my classes for a variety of personal motivations. \u00a0 I believe that I thrive when my teachers cared about me enough to give me individualized attention.\u00a0\u00a0 How do we encourage this style of teaching?\u00a0\u00a0 To answer this question, I would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspiredtoeducate.net\/inspiredtoeducate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}