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Culture Connection: We Are Proud to Present a PRESENTATION (VIDEO)

Watch and listen as Malcolm guest hosts a post-show discussion with the cast and crew of the play, We Are Proud to Present a PRESENTATION About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known As Southwest Africa, From the German SudwestAfrika, Between the Years 1884-1915 at Cal-Arts on October 19th. This provocative piece of work is captivating and provides much food for thought! Special thanks to Nijeul X. Porter for inviting Culture Connection to host this discussion. Enjoy!

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Salman Khan: Video Will Reinvent Education

Salman Khan is the founder and faculty of the Khan Academy (www.khanacademy.org)– a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a free world-class education to anyone, anywhere.  It now consists of self-paced software and, with over 1 million unique students per month, the most-used educational video repository on the Internet (over 30 million lessons delivered to-date).  All 2000+ video tutorials, covering everything from basic addition to advanced calculus, physics, chemistry and biology, have been made by Salman.

Prior to the Khan Academy, Salman was a senior analyst at a hedge fund and had also worked in technology and venture capital.  He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an M.Eng and B.S. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT, and a B.S. in mathematics from MIT.

Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises, and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script — give students video lectures to watch at home, and do “homework” in the classroom with the teacher available to help.

Source: TED