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It was right there with flying cars and domed cities on the moon. That was part of the whole Disneyworld/OMNI Magazine promise about life in the year 2000.

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[-] oyenyaaow@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 weeks ago

Khan Academy Kids is incredible. Watching a toddler battle brain fatigue learning the number two because they want to is terrible and terrifying. If you let them pace themselves and treat it as a game without forcing a schedule they easily get two years ahead of schedule. But it is so much an outlier.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

And I'm guessing you wouldn't substitute school entirely for Khan Academy.

[-] oyenyaaow@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 weeks ago

No. wouldn't. And the kids themselves wean themselves off the kids version at about age 6 suddenly by whatever interests them - seems all:zero for all the kids I'm aware of using the kids version. But the greatest impact in my opinion is understanding a structured lesson is a skill they mastered before formal schooling which puts them ahead. Not to mention early use of english - not our mother tongue.

[-] Fleur_@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

I think it's people making that content not computers

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