Sal Kahn on Khan Academy

Sal Khan at Gel 2010 (founder, the Khan Academy) from Gel Conference on Vimeo.

For those interested in how this great resource came to be...

math flash back

I am somewhat astonished to admit that I am finding math far more interesting now than when I was in school. With some pretty amazing math shows under our radio free school belt, I feel much closer to the world of mathematics than I ever did stressfully facing down flash cards in elementary school, or trying to make sense of sin cos and tan in high school while under the influence of strange herbs or the math teacher's noxious breath.

So this week's show with Don Cohen the Math Man was a treat for me to listen in on. Calculus for kids...who'd 'a thought?

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interview - Don Cohen "Math Man" http://www.mathman.biz/
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insights - radio free school kids
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music - Rachmaninoff, Allegro molto, The Piano Sonotas (Robert Silverman)
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tech - Beatrice
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listen -download the MP3 or Podcast at www.radio4all.net
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Food for Thought and Inspiration; Books, Resources, Films

Recommendations

Books

• The unschooled mind, Howard Gardiner
• Have fun, learn stuff grow and and the sky lark sings with me both by David Albert.
• Deschooling our lives, Field Day and Watch your self, why safe isn’t always better, Hern Matt
• The homeschooling Handbook by Wendy Priesnitz
• Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich
• Teenage Liberation handbook ; how to quit school and get a real life and education by Grace Llewellyn
• Guerilla Learning by Grace Llewellyn and Amy Silver
• Freedom challenge by Grace Llewellyn
• How children learn, how children fail, learning all the time, teach your own, Instead of Education etc Holt John- all his books are fantastic- Never too late
• Surviving the Applewhites by S. Tolan (see my review)
• Creativity; flow and the psychology of discovery and invention by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Raising our children, raising ourselves- by Aldort Naomi- Dumbing us down and underground of American education by John Taylor Gatto
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Friere
• Compulsory Mis-education Paul Goodman
• Creating a cooperative Learning Centre by Katharine Houk
• Self Design by Brent Cameron
• With Consent; parenting for all to win by Jan-Fortune Wood
• The Other side of Eden by Hugh Brody

Magazines

• Life Learning Magazine, Natural Life Magazine Priesnitz
• HEM (Home education Magazine)
• edgy catin’ Mama and her forum board Nina Packebush
  

Films

• Grown without schooling by Peter Kowalke
• mine would be on this list IF I HAD THE MONEY FOR AN EDITOR

Web Sites

• Roland Meighan- check out his reading list very good contemporary stuff