Bizarrely, I've just had a congruent conversation with a very eloquent and switched-on Students' Union president-elect and our equally insightful L&T Coordinator: Multiplication smackdown: Sal Khan vs Vi Hart – who’s got the ‘insight’? (from Quantum Progress).
As a maths and computing lecturer I know something about both sides but I'm still siding with Vi: Khan is brilliant as a resource and the surface approach works well alongside something designed to develop deeper understanding ... hmmm, isn't that what higher education is for, after all? ;-)
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