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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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8 Ed-tech organizations every teacher should know about

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Main themes that can be found in their work include personalized and competency based learning, blended and online learning. Focus: Closing the digital learning gap. Digital Promise. Structure: Government program. Level: K12.

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Don’t Teach Grit. Embed It.

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But what has been left unsaid is how our current system of education works systematically against instilling these skills in students, and how we could naturally embed the development of grit in students—in a way that doesn’t talk explicitly about grit—by moving to a competency-based learning system.

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

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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. Abbas Manjee's standards-based Algebra 1 scope and sequence. Full size image here. As my students submitted work, I tracked everything in my gradebook.

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