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Three Things We Learned at Khan Academy Over the Last Decade

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In 2005, Sal Khan founded Khan Academy, the online education nonprofit where is now CEO, and in 2014 he founded the Khan Lab School. I made three assumptions back in 2010 that still hold sway today. The philosophical core of Khan Academy is mastery learning. Today, 99% of U.S.

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Sal Khan on Expanding Into Early Learning and Launching a Peer-to-Peer Tutoring Platform

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Sal Khan has been as busy as ever. Over the last year, he’s helped Khan Academy manage a three-fold user increase, has grown and developed an online program geared toward early learners, and launched a new peer-to-peer tutoring platform to keep students connected and learning during the pandemic.

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Big Jump in Use of Games, Videos in K-12 Schools, Survey Finds

Marketplace K-12

In 2015, 47 percent of K-12 teachers and almost two-thirds of K-5 teachers reported using game-based learning environments in their classes, up from 23 percent of K-12 teachers in 2010. The use of online instructional videos in classrooms, meanwhile, has risen over that stretch from 47 percent to 68 percent.

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How Is Cloud Computing Revolutionizing the Education Industry?

Ask a Tech Teacher

Online libraries and collections of free didactic documents were a reality as early as 1997 , through the Cisco Networking Academy. American entrepreneur Salman Khan (not to be confused with the Bollywood actor of the same name) founded a similar project ten years later, namely the Khan Academy.

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Change is a Mindset

A Principal's Reflections

Online courses through the Virtual High School implemented in 2010. The best part is that NMHS teachers themselves are creating the interactive content as opposed to relying on Khan Academy. So many of my teachers are making the choice to integrate social media as a learning tool that I just can''t list all of the examples.

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The Benefits of Video in the Digital Classroom

ViewSonic Education

In the 2016 Speak Up survey, 68% of teachers said they used online videos in 2015 – compared to 48% in 2010. The source could be a teacher-created video, the Khan Academy , or other digital resources. On average, they used it at least once per week. 9 Is the DVD player-laden media cart a thing of the past? Online Video.

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5 Goals for the School Year

The Electric Educator

This marks my third year of this process: 2009-2010 Goals. 2010-2011 Goals. I even beat out the Khan Academy! Every year I pick five professional goals to work on during the school year. So, here it goes, my goals for the 2011-2012 school year 1. My goal is to add 15 new tutorials this year.