Category: Khan Academy

Becoming Antifragile in Education – 4 Things You Can Do Right Now

Jan 3, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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How to become antifragile so every blow makes you stronger Nassem Taleb is an expert on risk and probability and he recommends in his latest book that we become less fragile, more robust, and actually antifragile. This is more than just Sissy Resilience… and this means that when the stuff hits the fan you actually bounce back…
MOOC 2.0 – What could Salman Khan do to make online learning even better?

Sep 29, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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You’ve got to be careful looking for photos of Sal Khan online… There’s a Bollywood star by the same name so it could get confusing… Anyway: Back to this riff about how to improve online learning and in particular MOOCs. A MOOC is a Massively Open Online Course if you don’t know, and has become…
What kind of microphone does James Altucher use for podcasting?

Jul 25, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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I know… this is the question that you’ve been asking yourself for weeks, right? Well, you can stop losing sleep over it right now… James Altucher is a kind of podcasting god now with daily daily podcasts coming out as well as his normal high quality and much longer weekly podcasts. Anyway, I have this obsession…
What is school for? You Should Read Seth Godin’s FREE 97 Page Manifesto – Stop Stealing Dreams

Jul 23, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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Seth Godin’s manifesto on school and schooling This is a great manifesto on education by internet marketing guru Seth Godin. Seth is referring to the public school system in the US. However, I think what he says applies more generally everywhere across education. The industrial model is broken Seth critiques the largely broken industrial model of…
Exporting the NZ’s baseline knowledge and skills for embedding literacy and numeracy

Sep 6, 2013

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Graeme Smith

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I’ve been excited about this before… Usually, my elation is crushed by some annoying practical reality of funding or compliance. However, a new set of draft NZQA rules may make it possible for us to export NZ’s baseline knowledge and skills for embedding literacy and numeracy. I think there is a market for it, especially…
How do I get my course online? Using Camtasia 2 and Youtube

May 21, 2013

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Graeme Smith

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Last week I finally did something that I’ve been procrastinating about for over a year. I got a large chunk of my NCALNE (Voc) professional development course online in the form of YouTube clips. I did it without using complicated courseware or authoring tools. This is part of my drive to open source the training…
NCALNE (Voc) Remixed: Part 2

Mar 15, 2013

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Graeme Smith

in ALEC, Assessment, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Flipped, Khan Academy, Literacy and Numeracy, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), Professional Development, Qualifications, Sal Khan

So what’s the solution then…? Well, in the last week I’ve written, rewritten, and am in the middle of trialling a totally new delivery approach for our NCALNE (Voc) training. It’s a hybrid… a remix of aspects of the various other delivery models that I mentioned last time. It combines the following: Workshop delivery: Two…
Which Microphone Does Sal Kahn Use? 2 Great Recommendations

Oct 31, 2012

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Graeme Smith

in Edtech, Gadgets, Gear, Khan Academy, Microphone, podcast, Podcasting, Recording, Sal Khan, self-publishing, Yeti

To be honest I have no idea which mic Sal Kahn uses… However, I’ve found one that I think absolutely rocks. The Blue Yeti USB Microphone might be one of the best around Here it is. It’s the Blue Microphones Yeti USB Microphone – Silver. This mic seems to work well with both my Macbook…
Using Camtasia 2 with Keynote to upload training content to Youtube

Aug 14, 2012

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Graeme Smith

in Edtech, Education, Education resources, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Khan Academy, Literacy and Numeracy, NCALNE, Online learning, Professional Development, Qualifications, Resources, Technology, Uncategorized, Video

I recently purchased Camtasia 2 for Mac so I could screen capture recording and upload it in various ways. My reasons for this are: To see if I can “flip” my own training model. In order to do this I first need to create a body of video style content and make it available. To…
Now playing: My very own Salman Khan Style video tutorials

Jul 12, 2012

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Graeme Smith

in Business model generation, Edtech, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Khan Academy, Literacy and Numeracy, Online learning, Productivity, Professional Development, Qualifications, Technology, Video, work

Well it’s taken me all day to get there, but I’ve managed to master what I think is the basics of being able to produce my own Khan Academy style video tutorials. Actually, they’re not exactly tutorials yet, that part will come later. They’re just quick discussions with me scribbling in the background. Currently, I’m…