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

[Kivuva]

This is an interesting read. Indeed such opportunities should be
provided to our children in greater numbers, a call the Jubillee
government has embraced, despite the confusion in the free laptop
project.

Technology is such an enabler and I'm sure if we embrace education
seriously like our Asian brothers, then we will see change in our
society.
Thank you Robert for sharing. At least parents in the list will pick clues

On 23/08/2013, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 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
> Phoenix House, 6th Floor
> P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
> Kenya
>
>
> Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696


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