The cost of production has gone down dramatically the cost of distribution has gone down dramatically. I think some of the core ideas behind what we are doing are old. It also opens up the idea that why do you have to have one teacher with one classroom and another teacher with another classroom? Why can’t you have three teachers in a room with 60 students instead? And they are all dynamically working with students on whatever their strengths and their weaknesses are, and the students are also working with each other.Įxplain what the confluence of technological and educational factors has been at this point in time to allow the Khan Academy to flourish and expand. Ramin Rahimian for Education WeekĪnd once you have every student working at their own pace, then you don’t have to have 30 desks aimed at a chalkboard. SALMAN KHAN, the creator of the Khan Academy, uses his office, in Mountain View, Calif., to record online educational videos. I think that’s going to be kind of blown away in favor of a model where every student is working at their own pace and the teacher now has a much higher-value role as someone who is diagnosing students’ weaknesses, who is mentoring students both on the academic material, but also mentoring students on becoming good teachers of their peers. I’m not sure of the timeline, but the classic teacher in front of the room at a chalkboard lecturing while you have 20 to 35 students at their desks taking notes-I think that model will soon go away.
How do you think classroom instruction is going to look five years from now?
Kahn about the evolution of the academy and its potential for changing K-12 education. Khan himself) and exercises in subjects ranging from algebra to microeconomics. That led to the 2008 creation of the Khan Academy, a nonprofit organization that has built a free, online collection of thousands of digital lessons (nearly 3,000 of them created by Mr. Salman Khan, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Harvard Business School, was working as a hedge fund manager when he began posting videos on YouTube six years ago to tutor young family members in math.
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