[kictanet] Khan; solution to teacher shortage

[robert yawe]

Daktari,

The mode of education is going the technology way which means that it will soon 
fall within your docket which suggests that you must get abreast of what is 
happening especially being an academician the benefits of the MIT open learning 
and KhanAcademy.

MIT stopped wasting parents/students funds by running formal bridging courses 
and instead placed the lectures online.  We are wasting a lot of parents funds 
by running formal bringing classes a system like the MIT and Khan online 
training can solve this issue. 

KIE is busy barking up the wrong tree as the playing field has changed, you once 
clearly indicated that during a lecture only 20% grasp the concept immediately 
and I beg to add that another 10% will pick it from the assignment/homework and 
maybe another 10% by reading the notes or text book leaving an "acceptable" 60% 
left behind

If there is no text book for the students to refer then another 10% are left 
behind and if there was no exercise book to write notes then there goes another 
10% bringing the fallout rate to 80%.  

Ooops, almost forgot, and if there is no teacher able to teach the subject then 
there goes the remaining 20% which gives us a fallout rate of 100%.

What KhanAcademy is doing is what radio lessons did for those needy schools that 
have a shortage of teachers be it Lokitaung, Mukuru kwa Njenga or Kendu Bay.

Mine is to say that instead of us spending millions at talk shops misguiding 
young developers about how they will become millionaires by writing applications 
for apple store, ovi store or samsung store yet the opportunities lie more in 
home grown and consumed solutions. 

Khan is not charging for his content so why not take advantage of that situation 
and begin to level the education playing field as we work towards including our 
own content.  

I am sure many of you did not watch the video in full or with the attention 
required which explains some of the posts, Khan says the model has changed what 
was class work is now homework and what was homework is now classwork, paradigm 
shift.

Regards

PS. A recent study found that American students failed miserably in Maths and 
Science compared to students in other 
 Robert Yawe
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Subject: Re: [kictanet] Khan; solution to teacher shortage

Robert,
You should have taken your thoughts further in a way that can impact our 
future.  If I were you, I would bring the issue of data centers and mash it with 
video content.  The conclusions would be that going forward we need lots of 
storage space.  This means investment opportunity.

I look at FPE as the greatest opportunity to push for automation to not only 
increase transparency but traceability.  It is a futile exercise for a learned 
person like you to sound helpless. Often it is a problem that creates an 
opportunity and if we fail to exploit it, it will happen again in which we are 
ALL considered unlearned.

Ndemo.


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