The Content Trap: A Strategist's Guide to Digital Change
by Bharat Anand · 17 Oct 2016 · 554pp · 149,489 words
graduate working at a hedge fund creates short educational videos to help his cousin with sixth-grade math and posts them on YouTube—resulting in Khan Academy and eventually precipitating the biggest changes in education in three hundred years. Each of these events—isolated, idiosyncratic, modest at the outset—had a colossal
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times, piracy). So in 2009, just a few years after he had joined the world of high finance, Khan quit his day job to start Khan Academy, a nonprofit dedicated to “ a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere.” Its resources were “almost comically meager,” he later said. The academy “owned a
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screen capture software, and an $80 pen tablet. The faculty, engineering team, support staff, and administration consisted of exactly one person: me.” By early 2016 Khan Academy had roughly 10,000 videos on its site, on topics ranging from calculus to finance, biology, and government, and was attracting more than six million
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Education funded a $3 million trial to assess the effectiveness of the academy’s teaching materials. Something was different this time. The Majors Get In Khan Academy was only the tip of the iceberg. Though it represented a fascinating breakthrough in the world of online K–12 education, its short-form videos
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, Pendergast, and Hayes, “A Day in the Life.” Google invested, too Clive Thompson, “How Khan Academy Is Changing the Rules of Education,” Wired , July 15, 2011. Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People Bill Gates, “The World’s 100 Most Influential
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The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts
by Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind · 24 Aug 2015 · 742pp · 137,937 words
15 million users, that help teachers organize their teaching, distribute materials, and interact with students outside the classroom.68 Other online platforms provide educational content. Khan Academy, for example, is a free online collection of 5,500 instructional videos (watched 450 million times), providing 100,000 practice problems (solved 2 billion times
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overall school-age population between 1999 and 2012.76 These other platforms rely on the clarity of charismatic individuals like Salman Khan (the creator of Khan Academy) personally to handcraft each video from scratch. However, existing institutions that already hold large bodies of expertise are sharing this on similar platforms. In 2011
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the rest in a traditional classroom. This is innovative in the first sense, providing a higher-quality education. But the introduction of online platforms like Khan Academy, or the use of MOOCs by some of the top educational institutions, make it possible to put the expertise of the finest educators and thinkers
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share advice and guidance with each other, based on their own experience. Sometimes this experience of lay people is complemented with the experience of professionals. Khan Academy is a good example, where students learn from each other as well as from the formal instruction of a teacher. Yet other communities have restricted
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we see people and systems building trusting relationships without any claim to being part of a profession. In education, students rely on online platforms like Khan Academy, where many of the key contributors are not qualified teachers. In journalism, reputable writers build large and trusting followings on social media (earning, for example
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, we ought to question whether this additional demand is unnecessarily burdensome. This appears to be the case in the technology-based Internet society—enterprises like Khan Academy and LegalZoom operate reliably and to a high level of user satisfaction without feeling the need to address explicitly whether they are altruistic or ethically
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–86. Spence, Michael, ‘Signaling in Retrospect and the Informational Structure of Markets’, Nobel Prize Lecture, 8 Dec. 2001. SRI Education, ‘Research on the Use of Khan Academy in Schools’, Mar. 2014 <http://www.sri.com/sites/default/files/publications/2014-03-07_implementation_briefing.pdf> (accessed 7 March 2015). Steiner, Christopher, Automate
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Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
by Thomas L. Friedman · 22 Nov 2016 · 602pp · 177,874 words
WeChat, the flow of peer-to-peer payments and credit through PayPal and Venmo, the flow of pictures through Instagram, the flow of education through Khan Academy, the flow of college courses through MOOCs, the flow of design tools through Autodesk, the flow of music through Apple, Pandora, and Spotify, the flow
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you can’t sustainably fill one without the other. You Need Work on Fractions Maybe the most popular intelligent assistant in the world today is Khan Academy, which was started in 2006 by the educator Salman “Sal” Khan and offers free, short YouTube video lessons in English on subjects ranging from math
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Board platform points out that I need help. So far more than 1.4 million kids have signed up to have free SAT prep from Khan Academy online. This represents four times the total population of students who use commercial test prep classes in a year. In fact, more kids now are
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using Khan Academy than paying for test preparation at every level of income. That tells you what a valuable intelligent assistant it has become. And 450,000 have
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linked their College Board results on the PSATs with Khan Academy to get tailored tutoring on the questions they missed, which they can then practice on their own time wherever they are—including through their cell
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general aptitude, but a focused set of skills you use over and over again in high school and college. “That’s why we partnered with Khan Academy—to provide the best in test prep,” Coleman added. “Now all students can own their performance, because they have access to the best tools of
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is working for people and what is not,” explained Sal Khan. So they spent the next five years just changing page numbers. Today, he said, Khan Academy can put up a set of calculus tutorials and see within hours which ones are the most effective in helping students come up with the
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Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era
by Tony Wagner and Ted Dintersmith · 17 Aug 2015 · 353pp · 91,520 words
math curriculum, textbooks, tests, lesson plans, and homework problems. Imagine that all students have access to the same resources they’ll have as adults—laptops, Khan Academy, WolframAlpha. What would a reimagined high school math experience look like? Beginning of Year One: Teach students to use resources accessible through their smartphone to
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’s brain is in its most dormant state . . . during lectures.1 Sal Khan’s views on lectures carry a certain irony. In 2006, he started Khan Academy, an online resource consisting of lectures and quizzes. From initially being used by his cousin, Khan’s following has exploded. Each month, well over ten
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designs to improve energy efficiency; or working creatively on art, music, or writing projects. And in taking on these creative, unstructured initiatives, students draw on Khan Academy resources to help them accomplish their goals. Scott Freeman of the University of Washington led a research team that explored 225 studies of undergraduate education
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similarities in, 84 Karabel, Jerome, 173 Kay, Ken, 249, 260 Kearns, David, 224, 225 Keeling, Richard, 149 Kennedy, Ted, 26 Khan, Sal, 193–94, 199 Khan Academy, 98, 193, 194 kindergarten conflicting goals in, 37–39 See also K-12 education King, Martin Luther, 121 KIPP network of charter schools, 57, 122
Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That's OK: How to Survive the Economic Collapse and Be Happy
by Pistono, Federico · 14 Oct 2012 · 245pp · 64,288 words
woman, who was a terminal cancer patient. She had two months to live, but her life’s dream was to learn calculus. Then she discovered Khan Academy, and realised that she finally had that opportunity. And so she did – she spent the last two months of her life learning calculus. And she
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have changed my life and the lives of everyone in my family”. A few days after that, Sal quit his job to work on the ’Khan Academy’ full-time (http://khanacademy.org). The conscience and the realisation that you are helping other people, building an “emphatic civilisation”,181 based on the sharing
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hand is pretty much obsolete nowadays. What matters most is the idea, the concept, the intuition. I immediately started to follow the chemistry lessons from Khan Academy, and I felt the excitement of discovery and understanding every time I watched one of those videos. It all seems quite strange, but it makes
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our mental paradigm. Information is ever more accessible, reliable, and most of all free to all. GNU, Linux, Creative Commons, Wikipedia, OpenCourseWare, and now the Khan academy. It is a logical consequence of the exponential growth of technology and culture. Sal expressed his desire to teach as many subjects as possible. As
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Administration from the Harvard Business School. And he did all that before turning 32. He knows what he is talking about. I wrote about the Khan Academy back in 2009, when (almost) nobody knew of it. Now, it is the biggest school in the history of humanity. It already delivered 150 million
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on a specific topic. Sounds incredible. Amazing. Too good to be true. So what is the catch? It seems unbelievable, but there is no catch. Khan Academy is free. The lessons are in Creative Commons. The code for the website and the platform is completely Open Source. You can use it on
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is touched by exponentially expanding technologies follows the curve of accelerating change.184 The educational system will have to adjust itself to realities like the Khan Academy, not the other way around. The reason parents send their children to school is not to learn (sadly), but to earn a degree, which will
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. If your goal is to go and work at Google, PayPal, Microsoft, or any other of those technology giants, then soon achieving proficiency on the Khan Academy may look more palatable than a degree from a traditional institution. Smart universities understand this, and they are reforming pretty quickly. MIT just launched MITx
Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better
by Clive Thompson · 11 Sep 2013 · 397pp · 110,130 words
. You don’t reach inverse trig until high school. But Matthew’s class isn’t typical. For the last year, they’ve been using the Khan Academy, a free online site filled with thousands of instructional videos that cover subjects in math, science, and economics. The videos are lo-fi, even crude
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kids who struggle, it gives them a chance to work through some of those issues without everybody watching.” Still, as Thordarson quickly points out, the Khan Academy isn’t enough on its own. You can’t just plunk kids in front of laptops and say, “Go.” The point isn’t to replace
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, new literacies, and the powerful insights that come from not just using, but programming, the machine. • • • Consider what’s happening beneath the hood of the Khan Academy. In one sense, Khan’s videos are the most prominent part of the system. But they’re also the least innovative one. They’re still
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just traditional lessons and lectures, albeit ones that can be consulted and reconsulted worldwide, at any time. What’s new is how teachers use the Khan Academy to track progress. The system offers a dashboard that displays nuanced information about each student: which videos they’ve looked at, which problems they’ve
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, I can spot it sooner and fill those gaps.” Being able to target students has paid off dramatically. In her first six months using the Khan Academy, her class’s scores had improved more than 106 percent. One girl advanced an astonishing 366 percent. Whereas the class average used to be three
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. during a bout of insomnia. Collecting such fine-grained data is likely to have other payoffs. When I talk to Sal Khan, who runs the Khan Academy as a nonprofit supported by donations, he points out that students have answered more than a billion questions on his system, and the videos have
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them teach?” This is, of course, one of those things that computers are uniquely good at: finding patterns that we can’t see ourselves. • • • The Khan Academy can work for math and sciences, where problem sets can be autogenerated and automatically graded. But what about teaching kids to read and write? These
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. Chapter 7: Digital School When I visit Matthew Carpenter’s math class: Some of this reporting appeared originally in an article I wrote about the Khan Academy, “How Khan Academy Is Changing the Rules of Education,” Wired, August 2011, accessed March 24, 2013, www.wired.com/magazine/2011/07/ff_khan/. the “Two Sigma
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The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
by Ray Kurzweil · 25 Jun 2024
For a deeper dive on the neocortex and science’s evolving understanding of the structural underpinnings of higher cognition, see Matthew Barry Jensen, “Cerebral Cortex,” Khan Academy, accessed November 20, 2021, https://www.khanacademy.org/science/health-and-medicine/human-anatomy-and-physiology/nervous-system-introduction/v/cerebral-cortex; Hawkins, Ahmad, and
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Production: Labour and Capital,” BBC Bitesize, accessed January 30, 2023, https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zth78mn/revision/5; Sal Khan, “What Is Capital?,” Khan Academy, accessed April 20, 2023, https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/macroeconomics/macroeconomics-income-inequality/piketty-capital/v/what-is-capital; Catherine Rampell, “Companies Spend
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; Alicia Tuovila, “Marginal Cost of Production,” Investopedia, September 20, 2019, https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/marginalcostofproduction.asp; Sal Khan, “Marginal Revenue and Marginal Cost,” Khan Academy, accessed April 20, 2023, https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/ap-microeconomics/production-cost-and-the-perfect-competition-model-temporary/short-run-production-costs
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,” Match Health, YouTube video, December 6, 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPwoMm9cv1M; Matthew McPheeters, “What Is Diabetes Mellitus? | Endocrine System Diseases | NCLEX-RN,” Khan Academy Medicine, YouTube video, May 14, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulxyWZf7BWc. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 111 For a short nontechnical explainer of the
Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success
by Shane Snow · 8 Sep 2014 · 278pp · 70,416 words
math lessons online before being discovered by Bill Gates, who thrust him into the spotlight and propelled him to build a groundbreaking digital school called Khan Academy), and musicians like Rodriguez (a folk singer whose amazing, but largely unrecognized music work from the 1970s was featured in a 2012 documentary, which then
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a multitude of sins: Yes, this was a bit of cringe-worthy biblical allusion. 155 groundbreaking digital school called Khan Academy: Sal Khan’s story so far is told artfully by Clive Thompson, “How Khan Academy Is Changing the Rules of Education,” WIRED, August 2011 (accessed February 17, 2014). While you’re at it
The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State
by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge · 14 May 2014 · 372pp · 92,477 words
own children): Khan is an excellent tutor and you can stop and rewind the videos if you want to go over the material again. The Khan Academy now serves more than four million students a month, ranging from the children of billionaires to the children of day laborers, and provides more than
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The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee · 20 Jan 2014 · 339pp · 88,732 words
need with the material, and also to take tests that tell them if they mastered it. One of the best known of these resources is Khan Academy, which was started by then–hedge fund manager Salman Khan as a series of online doodles and YouTube video lectures intended to teach math to
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immense popularity led him to quit his job in 2009 and devote himself to creating online educational materials, freely available to all. By May 2013, Khan Academy included more than 4,100 videos, most no more than a few minutes long, on subjects ranging from arithmetic to calculus to physics to art
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. These videos had been viewed more than 250 million times, and the Academy’s students had tackled more than one billion automatically generated problems.15 Khan Academy was originally aimed at primary-school children, but similar tools and techniques have been also applied to higher education, where they’re known as massive
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Students: A Third Decade of Research, 1st ed. (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005), 602. 15. Michael Noer, “One Man, One Computer, 10 Million Students: How Khan Academy Is Reinventing Education,” Forbes, November 19, 2012, http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelnoer/2012/11/02/one-man-one-computer-10-million-students-how
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