{"id":215,"date":"2013-09-07T09:59:58","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T09:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/why-i-dont-like-khan-academy-or-flipping-the-classroom\/"},"modified":"2013-09-07T09:59:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T09:59:58","slug":"why-i-dont-like-khan-academy-or-flipping-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/why-i-dont-like-khan-academy-or-flipping-the-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I don\u2019t like Khan Academy (or Flipping the classroom)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thing we have to do as teachers, is that we have to engage our learners.  I don&#8217;t think that sending them off to watch a video does that.\n<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s why.\n<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had to take a bunch of online courses with videos.  I zone out on them unless they are really short and really dynamic.  Even videos that show me how to do something I want to do.  I usually end up fast forwarding to the part I don&#8217;t get and skipping the rest.\n<\/p>\n<p>If I, an advanced learner who is dedicated to learning, zones out, why does our average un-invested learner do? Or worse yet, our limited English speaker (and listener do?)  I bet they don&#8217;t even turn them on.\n<\/p>\n<p>Even if you have them do it in the classroom, how does that substitute for a teacher who cares about them in their face?\n<\/p>\n<p>The answer is to reduce class sizes and get more teachers in the classroom who care.  Oh yeah, that&#8217;s a problem too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing we have to do as teachers, is that we have to engage our learners. I don&#8217;t think that sending them off to watch a video does that. Here&#8217;s why. I&#8217;ve had to take a bunch of online courses with videos. I zone out on them unless they are really short and really dynamic. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}