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

Edsurge

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. So why this strategic shift to testing?

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

Marketplace K-12

Speak Up found that 50 percent of teachers were looking for such resources, up from 27 percent in 2012.

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PROOF POINTS: There is a worldwide problem in math and it’s not just about the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

For more PISA questions, there are PISA practice questions on Khan Academy and publicly released questions from the 2022 test. students in this lowest level has swelled; back in 2012, a little over a quarter of U.S. This one is rated a level 2, a level of difficulty that 34 percent of U.S. Source: OECD PISA 2022.

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Change is a Mindset

A Principal's Reflections

Independent OpenCourseware Study (IOCS) implemented in 2012. Google Apps For Education (GAFE) implemented in 2012 empowering students and staff to learn collaboratively in the cloud. Flipped classroom and instructional model implemented in 2012. Grading reform implemented in 2012. See what CBS New York had to say.

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?Learning Equality Scores $5M From Google To Bring Edtech Offline

Edsurge

Among the nine groups selected for Google.org’s big give—which also includes War Child Holland ($2 million), Khan Academy ($5 million), StoryWeaver ($3.6 In practice, that would look like continued offline access to more than 9,000 Khan Academy videos, plus authoring tools that will enable users to create locally-relevant content.

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Men behaving badly

Dangerously Irrelevant

Sarkeesian has been relentlessly stalked, abused and threatened since 2012, when she started a Kickstarter campaign to fund a series of YouTube videos critiquing the representation of women in video games. When I write critically about Khan Academy or Apple, I know I’ll hear an earful — and it isn’t simply an earful of disagreement.

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Khan Academy redux

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

The last thing I expected to encounter this week was a resurgence in the Khan Academy Debates of this past summer. But honestly, I hadn’t thought much about Khan Academy since then — until Monday afternoon. I picked this one today for a reason; go to the end to find out.