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MADem

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29. Have you been to "Khan Academy?" It's pretty damned remarkable.

Reply to McCamy Taylor (Reply #9)

Sat Jun 23, 2012, 11:23 PM

Jun 2012

It started out as a guy helping his kid sister with her homework. It's turned the way some people teach on their head, where they learn the lesson via video as "homework," and do their "homework" in the class with a live teacher who can jump on them if he or she sees that the student isn't grasping the concept.

Go to YOUTUBE and check Mister Khan out--that guy is amazing. I think BG has a piece of him now.

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