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The biggest flaw in tnis is that the OP criticizes khanacademy videos by showing that vastly inferior videos don't work. Khan videos are good b/c they make it easy to think: there are no distractions, just a blackboard and an intelligent voice "in your head" guiding you through the problem domain. The OP, instead of using a khan video or even a khan-like video, tries to teach physics using a video shot outdoors featuring the face of a talking girl with a guy juggling in the background. He might as well give his subjects a physics book and turn them loose in a sports bar to study while following ncaa basketball. Neither method is a good one for learning physics. What's sad is that thd OP is not just some crank on the internet, but apparently a newly minted PhD in education who will likely end up teaching teachers or running a school system.

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