Kahn Academy: Circuitry

Currently, I understand all of my classes in school; so I'm going a bit ahead, studying circuitry in physics.  This video outlined the basics of understanding electrical currents (Basics of Electric Charges, Resistance, Current, Amps, etc.), which although explained previously in my 7th grade Science Class, serves as a refresher for Physics and AP Physics, comming around the corner in the next few years.

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Personally, I myself prefer the traditional method of learning, over the "flipping the classroom" method.  However, for many people, I understand how explaining something, such as algebra or calculus, can be easier for many by seeing it done in this manner, compared to spending hours reading a lesson from a book.  Maybee I am some freak anomaly, that prefers reading a lesson in a book in thirty minutes, compared to hearing a lecture about it for an hour or so; to me, being very advanced in my subjects in school, have learned independentally in this manner since first or second grade*.  To me, I have learned to learn independentially, and have learned complicated subjects independentially, and in a completely different method, then the ways that many teachers lecture.

There are some things, that cannot be learned from watching a video, however.  History, English, and many fine arts cannot be learned from watching a video; so the need of lecturing and class discussions will still be required in schools, in my opinion.  Although I prefer the "book method", while many people understand the "Khan Approach", I believe that this method does assist people in learning a subject, and retaining the information, which would usually be lost within days of a lecture.

Regardless, as with every subject, "different strokes for different folks"; some people prefer one way, while others require learning in other ways.  Some people, for example, have to have a "hands-on-experience" in school, while others take superfluous notes.  I believe, that the option should be present, if the "flipping the classroom" method is applied, weather to experiment in the software, and see if you learn from both audio and visual methods, or the traditional method of lectures and textbooks.  In this manner, the data collected from this will truely tell us if the "Flipping the Classroom" approach is effective.

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*Since I'm in a military family, I usually move every-other year; all throughout the East Coast (and recently, Coronado).  As with different school systems, the curiculum taught is as unique as the school itself, and instead of spending days going over subjects and information not taught in other school systems, teachers have given me books, and told me to "Learn this subject by the end of the week".