Sal Khan's plan to educate the world | Big Think
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Published 2021-10-15
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When COVID-19 emerged and school districts began to move to remote learning, the ability to access tutoring — be it peer tutoring, extra time with teachers, or small-group tutoring — became even more difficult.
schoolhouse.world/ puts the focus on a different aspect of remote learning. Where traditional online education offerings focus on pre-recorded lessons, courses, and practice sessions, schoolhouse.world is designed to provide real time feedback via peer tutoring and small group sessions.
The organization now boasts over 3,000 learners across more than 100 countries, with hundreds of online tutoring volunteers leading teaching classes and courses. Currently, those courses focus on math — from pre-algebra to calculus — as well as SAT prep, Indian Exams, and review sessions for AP exams.
Sal Khan, of Khan Academy and now Schoolhouse.world, says real-time online learning is where our dated education system is heading, a destiny accelerated by COVID-19. While internet access is not yet available to everyone equally, Khan believes we are getting to a place where it soon will be.
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About Sal Khan:
Sal Khan is an American educator and founder of the Khan Academy, a free online education platform and not-for-profit organization. He has produced over 2200 popular videos elucidating a wide spectrum of concepts, mainly focusing on mathematics and the sciences, in his home. His official channel, 'Khan Academy' has, as of March 2011, attracted more than 45 million views.
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All Comments (21)
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What do you think the future of education will look like?
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this voice brings nostalgia
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Ah, the sound of my physics/calculus/chemistry/biology professor
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This man needs a Nobel prize
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I recognize this mans voice. he taught me alot from khan academy.
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I dropped out of school in the 9th grade, mostly because I couldn't fit in with the structure. Thanks to KhanAcademy, I was able to catch up my skills in my own time, and study/develop an interest in a variety of sciences. I ended up getting my GED, and this spring I'll be finishing my BA in Engineering Technology. Never could have done it without KhanAcademy
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I have personally recommended Khan Academy to at least 50 people face to face and many more online. I honestly believe it is among the top ten percent of schools. It is Ivy League quality, and you have access to it. Use that advantage.
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not me taking a break from studying maths only to see the instructor be in this video
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Minimal memorisation. More problem solving.
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Whoa his voice reminds me of my college admission test preparation... Thanks a lot sal I'm a physics teacher now.
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Sal is the man. I used him so much during college because his videos were easy to follow and they helped me pass difficult curriculum.
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The education system definitely needs to change and adapt to the modern world, but I hope people who have already been educated aren't left behind in a changing world they can't keep up with.
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This man is a hero to so many students
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Sal Khan is one of the greatest people in the last 10 years. Thank you for featuring him on this great channel.
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I learned more from this man than all my teachers combined
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Man, saw this video and was instantly motivated to start using kahn academy again for algebra 2. I was doing awful, almost failing the class, didn't understand the material whatsoever. After 2 weeks I am proud to say I have brought the grade up to an A-, and am understanding more everyday!
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Khan Academy saved me from disastrous result and retakes.Hats off to this guy 😇.
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Could we decentralize the entire higher education system, make it accessible to anyone, while making it an order of magnitude better somehow? (deeper in actual understanding and less grade centered, mastery focused instead). Instead of "ivy league" you have very competent individual professors and not so competent ones. Professors get paid directly by the algorithm, cutting out all the administrative bloat. meet anywhere, or online, or maybe apple store looking places that are made especially to harbor activities like this, with a small fee to get in the building or something.
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Sal really deserves all the love he's getting down here. I've got some kind of a mental defect where math literally puts me to sleep after about 15 minutes. A math curriculum where I could pause, rewind and fast forward to juke my brain into staying focused was a vast improvement over the standard model where if you fall asleep in one class, you're suddenly irrecoverably behind and just have to keep taking Fs as they pile on new material. I'm using matrices and differential calculus in my personal projects thanks to this guy.
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This guy is amazing and a real inspiration. It's a shame that most kids are more interested in social media than acquiring knowledge from high quality free courses.
