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Khan Academy Wants to Make 'Mastery Learning' Mainstream. Will Partnering With Schools Help?

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A big idea driving Khan Academy is a belief in “mastery learning”—that students should show proficiency in one set of materials before moving on to the next. The nonprofit’s latest push to make mastery learning mainstream involves partnering with school districts who adopt Khan Academy’s materials and platform.

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Mastery learning can help close pandemic learning gaps

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As the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic and prepares for its first post-pandemic school year, the results of a new Khan Academy survey of teachers offers hope for a brighter future and, at the same time, reaffirms education’s deep commitment to staying laser-focused on recovery. We wholeheartedly agree.

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Why Mastery Based Learning is a Good Option

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To facilitate this, students are met where they are in their learning, not where the grade level says they should be. For example, the third-grade student who loves math and moves effortlessly through the Khan Academy lessons for his grade level is encouraged to continue to the 4th, 5th, even middle school offerings. ” .

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Sal Khan: Test Prep Is ‘the Last Thing We Want to Be’

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Ten years ago, Sal Khan set out to change that with his Khan Academy videos, which let kids replay lessons as many times as they want. Here in education, Khan doesn’t need much introduction. And then it goes into the kind of mastery learning framework of Khan Academy. Even with our SAT prep.

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Curriculum Design is Emotional Work—This Teacher Makes It Easier

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Khan Academy videos coupled with IXL exercises aligned to standards we were learning in class. It took a lot of time and effort to curate the best resources from the surplus of providers, but it was worth it; I learned a lot about my students and my students learned in a way most suitable for them. .

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Why a K-12 Operating System is the Next Step in the Evolution of Edtech

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To supplement in-person support offered during class and lunch periods, I published a simple Google site to house my lessons, assessments, and other resources. If students missed class or needed additional help, they could go to my website and access the day’s lesson as well as videos and digital exercises from YouTube and Khan Academy.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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So not surprisingly, as tech executives sought to open their own, private schools, they have turned to a largely imagined legacy of progressive education, often referring to their experiments as “Montessori 2.0” — Sal Khan’s Lab School and Max Ventilla’s AltSchool , for example. Stanford University psychology professor Carol Dweck.

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