{"id":1034,"date":"2011-04-08T17:14:24","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T00:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2011-04-08T17:14:24","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T00:14:24","slug":"if-this-doesnt-blow-your-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/08\/if-this-doesnt-blow-your-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"If this doesn&#8217;t blow your mind&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"600\" height=\"365\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gM95HHI4gLk&#038;rel=0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;version=3\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gM95HHI4gLk&#038;rel=0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"600\" height=\"365\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Just heard some comments by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Salman_Khan_(educator)\">Salman Khan<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Khan_Academy\">Khan Academy<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Khan_Academy\">wikipedia<\/a>)  &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/#browse\">over two thousand free educational videos<\/a> on almost any conceivable topic, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/login?continue=http%3A\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/exercisedashboard\">a growing library of self-paced exercises<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>One finding of their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/about\">class profiles<\/a> is that people who start as &#8220;slow&#8221; learners may end up a the top of the class if they&#8217;re allowed to learn at their own pace, but required to master their materials before moving on. <\/p>\n<p>God bless him, it&#8217;s the future of learning.<\/p>\n<p>-Anthony<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just heard some comments by Salman Khan of the Khan Academy (wikipedia) &#8211; over two thousand free educational videos on almost any conceivable topic, and a growing library of self-paced&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[73,190],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-higher-learning","tag-pointers","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions\/1037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}