Challenge to Teachers …

To produce the best digital video for a single lesson on any subject for any grade
Duration of the lesson should not exceed 12 minutes

Aim of Challenge

To develop a website providing free, online
South African curriculum-based video lessons for all subjects and for all grades
Lessons to use traditional teaching methods combined with new technology:
Blackboard, animation, film-footage, computer games
To make a “leap-forward” in teaching practice

South Africa

12 million students
420 000 teachers/educationalists
25 000 schools

For more information contact Kristi:
kristisecret@gmail.com

The world of education is embracing video-based lessons

Khan Academy

The Khan Academy has made over 4400 12-minute lessons
Viewed by over one million subscribers some 268 million times

The Khan Academy - The future of education:

Below, a detailed explanation of how this new form of teaching can improve the teacher's ability to monitor the progress of all students, of how poor performers may become stars and how teachers can free up their capacity to focus on creative projects over lecturing.

Bill Gates interviews Sal Khan and we get a glimpse of the future of education ...

Note: The first 6 minutes of the video below is much of a repeat of the video above, but thereafter it deals in detail on how the Academy will help teachers ...

The aim, in addition to developing locally produced lessons, would be to link to other video-based learning sites in order to share lessons

And, maybe, one day with the support of the Department of Education, South Africa may ask the Khan Academy to load the South Africa school curriculum onto the Khan website,or even help South Africa establish its own interactive website.

"It's the future of teaching" ... (Bill Gates)

• Mastery of subject is required

  Salman Khan ..... "The traditional method of teaching penalises you for experimentation and failure, but does not expect mastery ....

The Khan method encourages experimentation and failure, but expects mastery"

• Flipping the classroom

Using videos, students study lessons at home to learn a concept.

The next day and under the supervison of their teacher, they do their homework. These exercises are called "problem-sets", modules to ensure they understand the lesson.

If they get stuck, they can get one-on-one help from the teacher; less lecturing, more interaction ...

"What you think of as homework, you do at school; and schoolwork, you do at home. It's called flipping the classroom" (according to Sal Khan, a concept developed by teachers using the taped lessons).

• Humanising the classroom

Using videos, every student can work at their own pace and ensure they master concepts before moving on to the next subject.

A teacher can have a classroom of thirty students all working on different things, but can still administer their progress. Teachers can use their time more effectively, less lecturing and more coaching/mentoring.

Live, human interaction is important ... the traditional method of a teacher lecturing to thrity students sitting quitely is replaced with more one-on-one interaction.

• Self-paced learning

  Monitoring students progress has revealved, time and again, that there are always groups of studens that race ahead and groups that are a little bit slower.

  But once the slower students have taken a little extra time to get through the concept, they race ahead. Often, kids who you may previously have thought to have been slow, are suddenly considered gifted.