Khan Academy is a website that was developed by Salman Khan in order to give tutorials in math. If you have not visited the site before, I strongly suggest that you do. It is a HUGE resource for students and teachers. Since it has started, it has continued to grow with the development of tutorial videos in every area of basic and advanced math, along with other content areas. Another great thing that has changed, is that it no longer uses YouTube to stream the videos. The videos are now streamed from the website, so school computers are no longer blocked from accessing them.
These videos are great because they truly allow students to access a lesson on a topic at their own pace. Below is a talk that Salmon Khan recently gave focusing on the change that his videos and other videos like them are making in the classroom. When students have the homework of watching the video on the next day's concept - they are able to watch it on their own time, replay anything they don't understand, or go back to a previous concept that they haven't mastered in order to be successful. This gives them the opportunity to come to the classroom the next day to practice and reinforce the concept the way that "homework" would normally do. His reasoning makes complete sense, and it is exciting to think about the effect that it can have on your students. This is how our kids are learning about things - and it makes sense why.
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