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Khan Academy tutorials have teachers flipping out

 The free online tutorials posted by Khan Academy are impacting on teaching – and not always in ways that its founder Sal Khan anticipated.  In this presentation to TED, Khan notes that some teachers are “flipping” what’s going on in their classrooms.  Teachers are forgoing their in-class lectures and assigning the Khan videos as homework and then using their class time to work on assignments.  This is dramatically increasing the teachers’ one-on-one time with the students who need extra help.