The initial results were spectacular, in Khan's telling, and since then the movement has spread. With backing from supporters the academy has been training teachers to use its tools and methods in places such as Idaho and Kansas. Has he had any discussions about the Khan Academy partnering with schools in the UK? By Khan decided to leave the hedge fund for what he describes as a closet in his house in Mountain View, California — although American ideas of what constitutes a closet are more generous than in Europe.
It was Doerr who tipped Khan off about a turning point for the academy. Soon a call came from Seattle for a meeting with Gates himself, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation became one of the academy's biggest supporters. Gates concluded: "He started by posting a math lesson, but his impact on education might truly be incalculable. Google and others have since got on board, as the honours mounted up for Khan.
Earlier this year the Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim — said to be the world's richest man — announced his foundation was funding the translation of the academy's work into Spanish, and the academy says its material is used in classrooms around the world, including Mongolia.
There are critics who have challenged the Khan Academy's content and Khan's approach. Some have posted detailed criticisms of his tutorials, although Khan says he is happy for the scrutiny. Khan is no fan of traditional education, which he derides as "lecture, homework, lecture, homework".
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Warren Senior Design Manager Warren is a multidisciplinary designer, artist, and tinkerer. Sometimes he pretends to own single engine planes while chilling in Tehachapi. I've been giving these exams for a long time, and the questions were of comparable difficulty. The biggest opportunities of all may be in the developing world. That makes alternative delivery systems possible. Dozens of Khan Academy videos, for instance, could fit on a single thumb drive.
Much of our current education system derives from the so-called Prussian model, and it dates to the late s when the King of Prussia introduced free, compulsory elementary schooling. Those schools were dedicated to teaching citizens the three Rs reading, writing and arithmetic , with the secondary, more cynical, objective of creating a docile working class accustomed to submitting to authority. A great deal of our educational scaffolding, including separating students by age and separating subjects by ringing bells, dates from Prussian times.
The Prussian model, which was imported into the U. It guaranteed all Americans a free, relatively good education and guaranteed employers a time-disciplined workforce with a set of common skills. It played no small part in lifting millions into the middle classes. And given the state of technology at the time, it was arguably the most cost-effective way of doing so.
But it also had significant drawbacks, most notably its factorylike pacing. The assumption is that education takes place from teacher to student by spoken word--by synchronous, not recorded, spoken word.
That means that all the students have to be at the same place at the same time. If everyone really learned at the same speed on the same path then you could fill a stadium and still have useful learning. But you can't. Thrun, Khan and many of their fellow educational disruptors want to upend that. Broadly termed "flipping the classroom," the idea is that students watch lectures and work through problem sets on their own time, at their own pace.
Once they prove mastery of a concept, adaptive software will suggest new ones, much like Amazon recommends new books. Teachers are kept abreast of students' progress through back-end dashboards.
Class time once reserved for lectures would be devoted to mentoring and one-on-one tutoring. Watch: The History of Education. The company has created a software platform that can be used by any content creator from a megapublisher like Pearson down to an individual teacher or prep school.
Knewton's software data-mines each student's performance and deeply customizes his or her learning experience. Ultimately they expect to be able to track you and your learning habits from grammar school through grad school. We know that. That 40 minute burst you do at lunch every day? You aren't retaining any of that--go hang out with your friends. You learn science best with videoclips or games instead of text or in addition to text?
You learn history best in minute bite sizes, and at the minute mark your click-rate always declines? We know everything about how you learn. That is significant change. Emerging communication technologies have long been touted as a panacea for our educational woes.
In the s, as radio boomed, more than educational stations were formed with the hope "that through the connectivity of radio, a single dazzling teacher could inspire thousands of bored students," as William Bianchi writes in his history of the movement. By only 38 had survived. The dawn of television spawned similar utopian dreams. Sunrise Semester , a production of CBS and New York University, ran for nearly 25 years starting in and offered watch-at-home courses for credit.
In the s personal computers became common in schools; in the last decade broadband Internet did. None of it helped very much. And if you were self-motivated enough and had various other things helping you, you could learn physics in an okay way.
The same thing is happening with the Khan Academy videos, and for the most part they are very good videos. What is missing is the recognition that a whole lot of humans don't like to learn that way or can't. And we have enormous historical evidence that that is the case. But like the good revolutionaries they are, the entrepreneurs on the front lines either dismiss that history as irrelevant or read something entirely different into it.
The last two that haven't changed yet are video and education, and I think both needed more broadband and better devices.
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