Nix the Norm is a YouTube channel that is operated by Shannon Germaine. She is an independent film maker whose films have won awards from C-Span, Planet 911, One Earth Film Festival Young Filmmakers and the Redford Centre Stories Challenge. Ms Germaine is a product of home-schooling and therefore provides information and advice in her videos about her home-schooling experience and other home-schooling issues. She also creates videos offering advice on different educational technologies that she has experienced. Below is a video of Ms. Germaine giving her opinion about her experience with Khan Academy.
LearnStorm is a mastery challenge program that Khan Academy uses as a data tracker. It uses class level challenges to track students' performance. Teachers can use it as a fun way to help students improve their skills and knowledge. LearnStorm tracks the entire class’s performance and presents it in a fun visual that shows how each individual student is contributing to the overall class performance in a particular area. Students are not identified in the visual; and their progress is only recorded on the LearnStorm tracker once they have passed the mastery proficiency level. Class progress is presented in rings, and for each ring to be completed, it requires that the number of assignments completed is three times the number of students in class. This motivates learners to master content and encourages them to work together to achieve class goals. Students can also use LearnStorm to track their own individual performance. LearnStorm LearnStorm Growth Mindset: The Truth About Yo