For Post-docs: Sal Khan Seminar Thursday (11/17) at 7:00pm in 32-123

[Dana Bresee Keeth]

For MIT Postdocs, forwarded from Rebecca Fearing, MIT School of 
Engineering, who met recently with officers of the MIT Postdoctoral 
Association:

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Thanks for letting me join your meeting last week to talk about our K-12 
outreach plan.  I am very excited to share an opportunity with your 
post-doc community to attend a special event featuring speaker Salman 
Khan  -- the founder and faculty of www.khanacademy.org 
<http://www.khanacademy.org/>.   This unique event will take place 
Thursday November 17th at 7 pm in 32-123 (Kirsch auditorium).

With three MIT degrees behind him (Course VI and XVII SBs and a Course 
VI MNG), Khan is hoping to re-invent and pioneer new models of education 
deliver and learning among K-12 students.  Using very simple production 
techniques -- table drawings with informal (yet highly informed) 
narrations -- Khan has has created 2,800 5 to 15 minute lectures that 
have drawn more than 90 million views on Khans Academy's You Tube channel.

Khan's lecture - Rethinking Learning-- is open to members of the MIT 
community only and sponsored by the School of Engineering and The 
Founders Journey (6.s976).  We hope some members of the post-doc 
community will take the opportunity to attend this talk!

Sincerely,
Becky

Rebecca Fearing
Executive Director, Transportation at MIT Initiative
Special Assistant to the Dean for Strategic Initiatives, MIT School of 
Engineering
fearing at mit.edu <mailto:fearing at mit.edu>




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