<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif">Hmmm, I hope so.  But the techniques enabled by KA isn’t necessarily a transferrable format.  Those videos are all set up as 10 minute or less segments. <span class=""><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p><span class="" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif">spike<span style="color:black">  </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif"><span style="color:black">I guess what I am asking is this:  is there anything about Khan that suggests that it might be superior in a setting where peer mentoring is done?</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif"><span style="color:black"><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif"><span style="color:black">OK - ten minutes and most watchers have mastered that concept.  Then turn on another one?  How fast did your kid go through the videos?  Did he ever replay one?  </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif"><span style="color:black"><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Or this:  would 5 Khan videos equal one 50 minute regular class session?</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif"><span style="color:black"><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif"><span style="color:black">I think I will enroll and take a class or two just to see.  Recommendations?</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif"><span style="color:black"><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif"><span style="color:black">BTW, my time is yours and I'll share any of my so-called knowledge with you like I did in the beginning.  </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif"><span style="color:black"><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Calibri Light',sans-serif"><span style="color:black">bill w</span></span></p></font></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 5:00 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">>…</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace<br><b>…</b></span><u></u><u></u></p><div><div><div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt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