Smart Parents, Smarter Generation
Kemarin pas ngejemur-jemur pakaian di rumah gue keingetan salah satu momen paling wow dari lebaran kali ini: gue baru tau kalo sepupu gue nge-homeschooling-in anaknya. Alasannya? Anaknya berkebutuhan spesial: belajarnya cepet, pede banget, tapi cepat bosannya...Read moreThe frank answer is, and they know it, this is not because of Khan Academy, otherwise I’ll be wearing bulletproof vest, i think the textbook industry is getting collapse very very very rapidly. And I think in ten years, the industry will not exist.
The reason is a kind of obvious. There are two things the textbook tries to do. It tries to explain some concept and it tends to do this in some kind of prose text that it does but even they have no idea about who’s reading what, it has no information that version five is actually better than version four, which is better than version three, there is no data to proof that…
Salman Khan: Let’s use video to reinvent education
My employer asked me to do a little research about the future of education and it brought me to stumble upon this one of many of Salman Khan of Khan Academy’s video. I admired the guy. He is such a visionary, passionate, and I think he has seen the glimpse of...Read moreThere was a time when no school system existed but the society was not necessarily less educated compared to a “schooled” society which we proudly call as modern.