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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. By enabling progress through a mastery-based system, we would help students build confidence and challenge them in the most personalized way. Today, 99% of U.S.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Education Week : “ Trump Signs Orders on Rural Broadband Access.” ” “ Personalized learning gives students a sense of control over chaotic lives,” says The Hechinger Report , in a very glowing look at the Summit Public Schools ’ ( Facebook -built) learning management system.

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.” “Modern E-Rate Puts Telephones On Hold in K–12,” Education Week reports , noting that schools are struggling to pay for phone service (still totally necessary) as well as expanded broadband. ” More on this scramble to serve (profit from) low-income broadband customers in the upgrades/downgrades section below.

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” Via Multichannel News : “Trayvon Martin Attorney Parks Targets AT&T Over Alleged Broadband Redlining.” “ Snapchat ’s smart pivot into an AR company but is AR ready for learning?” Via NPR : “ West Virginia State University Says It Is Suing Dow Chemical For Contamination.”

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” “Republicans try to take cheap phones and broadband away from poor people,” Ars Technica reports. monthly subsidies toward cellular phone service or mobile broadband. ” Testing, Testing… From the Khan Academy blog : “ Khan Academy is the Official Practice Partner for AP.”

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Education's Online Futures

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There was all that ink spilled circa 2010 that Khan Academy and “ flipped learning ” were going to “ change the rules of education ,” replacing in-class instruction with online videos watched as homework. broadband privacy rules.” Udacity’s CMO Shernaz Daver left that company.

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