Khan Academy

http://www.khanacademy.org/#Biology

 I feel like we're probably all talking about this amazing resource thats out there on the internet.  My second teaching area being science I'm obviously focusing on the biology perspective of the website as well as the other science portions because there is only upper level Biology in high school.  I thought watching his speech at the TED conference was very interesting about the flipped classroom with the students watching lectures at home and then working on homework during class. I could totally see this working for math physics and chemistry. Biology though i see as being less homework based. But it could totally be watch the lecture at home and then do some sort of related activity in the classroom or watch the lecture to get a head start on the material coming up or review the material that was just completed. Obviously this is a great resource and you would have to be really familiar with the website to know what topics it has up there that are in your curriculum or missing from it in order to direct students to it or teach your own lectures.  I will definitely be keeping this website book marked not only for my own teaching but for the practicums as well because it is such a good resource for paced learning so that students can slow down and review without having to feel embarrassed putting their hand up in class. I think the tracking software would be awesome as well seeing exactly who is struggling with what so you can maximize your one on one time with each student.  This program would allow students to race ahead and others to go at their own pace. I think it could cause a problem when testing though because you have to test knowledge somehow and if you are going to have the test for everyone on the same day one person might be way ahead and one person might be not quite up to where the test is yet. Again its an awesome resource i will really think about how to implement into my future teaching.