An article in the most recent WIRED magazine got me to thinking
about alternative methods (maybe even better?) for delivering
training related to both robot building and programming. I was
sort-of familiar with Khan Academy (I had watched a video or two
a few years ago when someone told me about it) but never truly
understood what I was seeing (and hearing) from the website. If
you're not familiar with Khan Academy please pause here and
simply read the article and then watch this video... it will get
you up to speed much better than I could possibly do so in a
paragraph or two. After you've watched the video (or not if
you're familiar with KA and its concept), hopefully you'll have
an understanding of how the videos work and what the goals of KA
are longterm. I'm not here to debate the pros or cons of KA --
the site and its methodology are the subject of much debate
already so let's not add to the noise here... my purpose for
this post is not to discuss KA's videos but to pose a question
to The NXT Step's aud