[kictanet] Khan Academy: from a B to an A*

[Bitange Ndemo]

Robert,
You are a brave man.  It is such testimonies that will make those who
doubt the power of technology to belief.  Congratulations


Ndemo.



> Hi Listers,
>
> This post is intended to serve to objectives, the salient one which is to
> brag that my son pasts his Year 11 exams with flying colours 5 A*, 4 A and
> 2 B and two of those A*s were in Mathematics, he could have made it 11 As
> but that would have meant sending him to Kumon/boarding school instead we
> opted to allow him to develop his film making skills, skate boarding
> skills, basketball hock shots and world of warcraft/Assassins Creed gaming
> levels.
>
>
> The second and less salient point, from my point of view, is that this
> might not have been possible if it was not for the availability of the
> Khan Academy web site and pocket friendly fixed price Internet access in
> this case provided by Zuku (thanks Kamande for picking my calls when I
> needed to vent, the link works brilliantly).
>
> Before putting my son on a strict regiment of Khan Academy he was a strong
> B performer especially in Pure Mathematics, a few times I was forced to
> burn the midnight oil polishing my rusty mathematics to be able to assist
> him with some of the difficulties he would encounter.  All this ended
> after Khan came to the rescue and I am proud to say that I have been
> having my recommended 8 hours of sleep, at least 4 days a week.
>
> As my son started appreciating that going to Khan Academy instead of
> playing world of warcraft with his European based team, at least for an
> hour every day, was more to his benefit than mine, he would come home
> after school and go through the lessons on Khan that related to what was
> covered in class to re-enforce the learning after which he would watch a
> video or two on the topic to be covered the following day.  This increased
> his grasp of the subject much faster and also provided him with a private
> tutor called Salman Khan (MIT (BS, BS, MS), Harvard University (MBA) for
> revision at a price of roughly Kes. 5,000/- which includes amongst many
> other items electricity, dedicated internet access and 72 cable TV
> channels)
>
>
> My son's use of Khan Academy at no time undermined the teachers in school
> but instead provided them with a better focused and value adding student,
> as we raise issues about the cost of electronic devices for class 1 and
> beyond let us make sure we do not loose the true return.
>
> Regards
>
>
> PS.  For those who might not know but Salman Khan is also the tutor for
> Bill Gates children, yes the one of Microsoft fame.
>
>
> Robert Yawe
> KAY System Technologies Ltd
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