After watching the below TED talk last week, I was reminded of my high school study sessions for Math/Physics and other largely quantitative courses. I would use a website (I forget the name) that the school district subscribed to with live tutors, a “whiteboard” and a text chat on the side of the window. I would draw out the equations/graphs I was having trouble with and the live tutor would walk me through the question.
Aside from helping or teaching my friends, this was literally the best method of studying I have ever employed. And until now, I completely forgot about it.
In the TED talk, Khan suggests that lectures should be dealt with outside of the classroom and that the classroom should be used for interactive learning, whether that be facetime (I feel like it’s okay to write that as one word now …) with the teacher or working with peers. I realize now that what Khan is suggesting is exactly what I was craving in high school - I tried to satisfy that craving with the live tutor website and by working with friends outside of class.
I hope the education system realizes that this is not the “future of education” but the fundamental definition of education.
