User:Yisrael F

Short Bio:
Yisrael F is an avid Khan Academy user. He is an active Experienced Member of GKA (click for link).

He is educated in a private high school in New York and dreams of being an education reformer later in life. This is the reason for his interest in KA. Yisrael believes that the future of education lies in the ability of students to teach themselves, using technology such as Khan Academy, and make use of peers as a primary source of help. Teachers, then, would be there simply to guide the learning. KA is playing with this model currently, and Yisrael believes that it is, thus far, the best attempt at reforming America's (very broken) education system.

Yisrael has a deep passion for psychology, particuarly the fields relating to children and education. He is also fascinated to the broad area of body language. He also is fascinated by biology, most specifically the areas of which pertain to fitness. He spends much time studying the way in which the skeletal system and muscular system work, and how those are effected by endocrynology and nutrition. Yisrael is also enamored with philosophy and history.

Hobbies: Yisrael is an avid athlete, favoring basketball and tennis most highly, but also enjoying running, biking, swimming, baseball, softball, volleyball, football... He is a coming-along guitarist, currently working on teaching himself music theory and practicing various patterns of finger picking. He is the president of his school's debate team, is the captain of the school's model Congress team, and writes and edits several school publications. He also is an amature programmer, learning largely from KA.

KA Stats:
(Updated: 6/15/14)


 * Points: ~ 2.5 million


 * Videos Watched: 1347


 * Questions: 46


 * Answers: 228


 * Tips & Thanks: 71


 * Votes: 822


 * Flags: 599

Programs:
KA's Home of Quotable Quotes (click for link)


 * An up-and-coming sharing community for users to post their favorite quotes as spin-offs to the base program.


 * Currently we are at 51 quotes, with many more to come.


 * (Please visit the page and contribute your own quotes!)

KA's Programs Posting Board (click for link)


 * Allows users to share programs in an effort to reach more members of KA.

BMI Calculator (click for link)


 * A simple manifestation of the coder's interest in both health and programming.