Edupunk Nerd News: Khan Academy and History Lessons

I had previously posted on Khan Academy's cool online lessons on science and math.  I still think they're fun introductions to those concepts, and their accessibility is great. I don't, though, recommend Khan's history lessons, what few he has, because it's really hard to do justice to the vast complexities of history with 10-15-minute-long video overviews.  History is fundamentally different from quantitative subjects like physics and math.  Now the National Association of Scholars has an article about just that very thing.  Do read.  For the record, I am not a fan of the "Big History" approach because it sounds as though the actual, particular details of history become subsumed into whatever thematic idea is being "taught" at the moment -- too streamlined, too pretty, too reductive, too prone to skipping things and glossing over others, too open to the deadly possibility of ignoring counter-examples and important outliers.