Online physics
Bill Gates and his son use the Khan Academy – and you should too!
"This guy is amazing," he wrote. "It is awesome how much he has done with very little in the way of resources." Gates and his 11-year-old son, Rory, began soaking up videos, from algebra to biology. Then, several weeks ago, at the Aspen Ideas Festival in front of 2,000 people, Gates gave the 33-year-old Khan a shout-out that any entrepreneur would kill for. Ruminating on what he called the "mind-blowing misallocation" of resources away from education, Gates touted the "unbelievable" 10- to 15-minute Khan Academy tutorials "I’ve been using with my kids."
I’m not exactly a fan of Bill Gates’ allocation of Microsoft investments or his own personal philanthropy. Tens of billions of dollars wasted. But I do think he is correct here about the Khan Academy.
I’m going threw Physics now so I can be refreshed to address topics with my kids, who are enrolled in a high school physics class online. I was just going to re-read Asimov’s “Understanding Physics” but I’m not sure where it is after the Nelson flood of 2010.