The One World School House

Getting Started

• Khan, a hedge broker, wanted to help his cousin Nadia who did not pass a 6th grade math placement test. He decided to tutor her. Most of their tutoring time was spent on the phone and using computer
• After helping Nadia, Khan went on to tutor more of his relatives.

Getting Started Cont.

• After his tutor numbers grew, he could not keep up helping them individually. So, he posted videos to YouTube.
• Khan learned that he loved teaching!
• Eventually, he went on to create Khan's Academy.

Khan's Beliefs

Khan's Beliefs-No-frills Video

• He kept the background of his screen a black board.
• He discovered 10 minutes was enough time to teach a lesson and not lose focus.
• When teaching, Khan, never showed his face in the videos.

Khans's Belief- Mastery

• Student's need to master the initial one first at 100% -Only passing with a 95% leaves 5% of information missing that they may need later. (Swiss Cheese Learning)
• Students need to be taught self-paced lessons.
• Students need to be responsible for their own learning.

Khan's Beliefs-Swiss Cheese Learning

• -Khan believes we should master 100% of our learning. -Concepts build on one another. If the student does not understand the concept at 100% before moving on, later they will be bewildered. -We are setting them up to fail. -All the wholes in their education are like that of Swiss cheese.

Khan's Beliefs- Testing

• Testing can squelch creativity before it has a chance to develop.

Khan's Beleifs- Homework

• Why is there a shortage of learning during learning hours? Because of lectures, one-pace fits all lectures.

Kahn's Beleif- Flipped Classroom

• Self paced- no bells or buzzers
• Do not teach in subjects or lessons- all material is intertwined in a "knowledge map"
• Have students watch 10 minute video on lesson before class homework)
• Spend class time discussing or implementing lessons where the teacher can really help the students

Khan's Academy

Software

• He created a software that tracked: --How many problems a student got right or wrong --How long they worked on each problem. --It even tracked time of day.
• Mastery consisted of getting 10 in row correct.

Penisula Bridge Experience

• Summer program provided educational opportunities to motivated middle school kids from schools and neighborhoods.
• First chance of Real Classroom interaction.
• Used in addition to, not in place of current math curriculum.

Finding Financing

• Several approached Khan about starting for profit business- he declined.
• He quit his Hedge Broker job to promote Khan's Academy.
• Met with Google. They wanted him to write a summary of what he would do with 2 million dollars! He heard nothing back for over.

Finding Financing

• Ann Doerr donated $10,000, met with him, then gave him $100,000 to support his family.
• Gated Foundation gave him a $1.5 million grant- then later another $4 million
• Google awarded $2 million to translate into 10 most spoken languages.

Los Altos Experiment

• Pilot program in a wealthy school district in silicon valley. - 2 Fifth grade classes that have never been tracked. (96% passed) - 2 Seventh grade classes labeled as "Falling behind" (increased 106% from previous year)

One Room School House

• Students of all ages should be mixed in the same room.
• They will learn from each other. -The younger ones will look up to older ones. -The older ones would mentor the younger ones.

Teaching as a Team

• Students of all ages in one room with 75-100 students and 3-4 teachers!
• One teacher answers questions and monitor lectures videos, others work on debate, small project building.
• Each teacher a chance to flourish.
• Young teachers would energize, and older teachers could teach from their experiences.

Redefining Summer

• School should be year round.
• Students stop learning in summer.
• Students start losing what they had previously gained.
• With multi teacher classrooms, teachers could alter vacation times.
• Self paced means no going from grade to grade. Students could take vacations when ever.

Future Transcripts

• Eliminate letter grades.
• Instead- as the centerpieces of student appraisal, two things: a running, multiyear narrative not only of what a student has learned but how she learned it; and a portfolio of a students' creative work.

Serving the Underserved

• Kahn would make sure the Khan Academy program reached everyone.
• He has already made video lessons for students to watch.
• He would have them work offline, put on jump drive, carry by donkey to main server to upload.

Colleges

• Khan would still have campuses.
• Students would be encouraged to start clubs.
• Instead of lectures, students would do 3 years of internships and learning from the experts.
• Example: Students would learn linear algebra by working on a computer graphics apprenticeship with Pixar.

Conclusion

• Using self-paced video lessons, in combination with computer based feedback and team teaching help, fundamental coursework can be handled in one or two hours a day.
• This frees up five to six hours for creative pursuits, both individual and collabrative.

Invision

• Embrace technology
• Rooms would buzz with collaboration and games
• The school would be interconnected with Skype or google hangouts.
• Schools would interconnect with other schools and countries.
• Students would be graded on their ability to learn and be creative.

Classroom-Based Application

Quote #1

• "Instead, I would propose, as the centerpieces of a student appraisal, two things: a running, multiyear narrative not only what the student has learned but how she learned it; and a portfolio of a student's creative work. ( Khan, 2012, 217).

Application

• I would implement this in my classroom because I think it is important to look beyond the test grade. I cannot take away letter grades and testing, but I can start this type of assessment which will allow others to look further into the students abilities and desires. Test only take a "snapshot" of what a student knows on that particular day.

Quote #2

• Lectures done independently at a students' own pace; problem-solving in class. (Khan, 2012, 117).

Application

• I would love to apply this "Flipped Classroom" approach. After reading this book it seems to make since that students can watch the lecture on their own time and at their own pace. Then do the application in class where the students would be able to ask questions immediately, get immediate feedback, have collaboration, and best of all, critical thinking would be able to occur.

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