Fifth-graders at eastside College Preparatory School in East Palo Alto, Calif., sit at their desks with netbooks. They're in the middle of a math lesson, listening as a teacher explains how to convert percentages to decimals. "If we get rid of the percent sign, we just have to move the decimal sign two places to the left," the instructor says. Pens scribble across notebooks.
Seven thousand miles away in Accra, Ghana, students at the African School for Excellence are studying logarithms. Their teacher is the same one firing off math tips in California--both groups of kids are learning by watching online...
The Flipped Classroom - the same as our Cyberclassroomtv Global Project - is turning homework and class tiem upsdie down.
- New Math, The Khan Academy by the numbers: 3,250 videos
- 600 million exercises completed (more than 2 million per day)
- 15,000 classrooms in which Khan Academy is used in some form
- 5,000,000 unique users per month
- 160,000,0000 videos watched since 2006
- 234 countries and territories where Khan Academy is used.
Funds
- It started with $ 10,000 donations in Salman Khan PayPal account by Ann Doerr, wife of Silicon Valley venture capital John Doerr, then she gave another donation of $ 100,000
- Bill Gates gave a Microsoft grant of 1.5 million
- Google gave a donation of $ 2,000,000
- Netflix CEO Reed Hastings followed with $ 3,000,000
- Irish entrepreneur Sean O'Sullivan gave $ 5,000,000
The process of the Flipped Classroom is similar to our Cyberclassroomtv Global Project, but it goes further with K-12 education, University education (original content and Open Learning Consoritium course curriculum for 15,000 courses worldwide), and we will expand it in all main 15 international languages to start.
For more information on how to get involved with CyberclassroomTV Global Project, please email us to:
Email: juancarloscordero@yahoo.com, juancarloscordero@cyberclassroomtv.com
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