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Lesson 1: Getting started with Khan Academy and mastery learningWhat is mastery learning?
Have you ever tried to learn something… and you just couldn’t? 😣 It’s not you. It’s just the traditional approach to learning. But what if there were a different way to learn? One that empowers you to really understand any subject? 📚 Well, there is, and it’s called #masterylearning. Created by Khan Academy.
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- Do you have a video that is tailored to the primary grades?(6 votes)
- This video would be my top recommendation—it may have been made for high-schoolers, given the references to Algebra and Calculus. But it's a good visual explainer of mastery learning.(2 votes)
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Video transcript
- [Narrator] Have you ever
really tried to learn something, and you just couldn't? It can make you feel like
you're not so smart, right? Well, it's not your fault, and it's not your teacher's fault. It's just our traditional
approach to learning. We go through school
and we accumulate gaps. You're a bit shaky on pre-algebra, but you move on to algebra anyway. By the time you get to calculus,
you've got lots of gaps. If enough gaps build up,
you'll eventually hit a wall. Calculus makes no sense,
and that can be frustrating. But what if there were a
different way to learn? That's mastery learning. Unlike traditional learning, where all students move in lock step, with mastery learning,
you go at your own pace. You progress through questions at just the right level for you. If you get 50% right the first
time, it's not a big deal. Try as many times as
you need, get feedback as you learn, and help when you need it. Teachers can track your
progress, identify any gaps, and give you one-on-one attention. Decades of research shows
mastery learning works. Now you have the tools
to make it possible. Are you ready to learn anything?