Khan Academy: Sal Khan. From Tutoring His Cousins to Teaching the World For Free (September 2020)
Khan Academy offers hundreds of free tutorials in fifty languages, and has 170 million monthly global users.
It all began in 2009 when Sal Khan walked away from a high-paying job to start a business that had no way of making money.
His idea to launch a non-profit teaching platform was sparked while helping his young cousins do math homework over the computer.
When he started posting his tutorials on Youtube, the world took notice.
You will learn:
Not just cat videos: How Sal discovered the early power of YouTube.
How a book by Isaac Asimov lay the foundation for Khan Academy
Why Sal said no to a for-profit business model
How Sal got discovered by Bill Gates–and other wealthy donors
How Sal defines ambition: Free world class education for anyone, anywhere
Listen now to hear how Khan Academy has grown to become one of the most trusted teaching tools around the world.
This episode was produced by Jed Anderson, with music composed by Ramtin Arablouei. It was edited by Neva Grant.
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Sal Khan is hopeful that AI won't destroy education
This is Hank Green, cofounder of Complexly. You might remember last year when I turned the tables on Nilay and interviewed him on his own show. That was a ton of fun, and it was so much fun that they’ve brought me back again. This time, I’m stepping in for Nilay to host the next few Decoder episodes while he’s out on parental leave.
Today, I’m talking with a very special guest: Sal Khan, the founder and CEO of Khan Academy. Sal was actually Nilay’s second-ever guest on Decoder, back in 2020. And well, a whole lot has changed since then. So I wanted to have Sal back on to ask what it’s like running Khan Academy today, in the aftermath of the pandemic. But also how online learning is about to change, in really dramatic ways, due to artificial intelligence.
Links:
Sal Khan on A.I.'s promise and its risks | NBC News (YouTube)
The best-case scenario for AI in schools | BBC News
Meet Khanmigo: the student tutor AI being tested in schools | 60 Minutes| 60 Minutes
Remote learning is here to stay — can we make it better? | Decoder
Hank Green makes Nilay Patel explain why websites have a future | Decoder
In classrooms, teachers put AI tutoring bots to the test | NYT
Elite colleges have found a new virtue for applicants to fake | NYT
Everyone Is cheating their way through college | New York Magazine
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#216 Founder Khan Academy, Sal Khan: Dangerously Curious
Guest: Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy
AI is poised to change nearly every business, but few are changing as quickly as education. And Sal Khan, who has spend more than a decade manually creating more than 7,000 educational videos, says that’s a good thing. He’s encouraged Khan Academy to focus on “disrupt[ing] ourselves ... more than almost any other organization that I know of.”
The reason is backed up by the data: Personalized tutors — designed to help students achieve mastery in a subject, but previously thought to be unscalable — could shift the educational bell curve “significantly to the right,” Sal says.
Chapters:
(00:52) - John and Ann Doerr
(05:20) - Khan Academy’s origins
(07:42) - What it is now
(12:43) - Emotional fortitude
(15:25) - Generating revenue
(19:36) - The two-sigma “problem”
(21:31) - OpenAI and Sam Altman
(24:47) - What AI can do
(27:56) - Cheating and other fears
(30:06) - Video production
(34:08) - Standardized tests
(38:36) - AI tutors’ tone
(40:22) - Not leaving the closet
(43:20) - Who Khan Academy is hiring
(45:58) - What “grit” means to Sal
Mentioned in this episode: Nasdaq, Dan Wohl, Vedic and Buddhist literature, Microsoft, Benjamin Bloom, ChatGPT, the Turing Test, Greg Brockman, Donald Trump, Bing Chat and Sydney, Khanmigo, the SAT and ACT, Schoolhouse.world, Craig Silverstein and Google, John Resig and jQuery, and Angela Duckworth.
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800: Why the jQuery Creator Uses React and Typescript - John Resig
In episode 800 of Syntax, Scott and Wes sit down with John Resig, the creator of jQuery, to discuss the current state of React and TypeScript. They dive into the evolution of frontend frameworks, the challenges of server-side rendering, and the tech stack at Khan Academy.
Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
00:59 Brought to you by Sentry.io.
01:32 What is jQuery?
05:31 Did you anticipate the success jQuery had?
07:16 allow-discrete, @starting-style. Install Nothing: App UIs With Native Browser APIs - Scott Tolinski.
07:54 Building the community around jQuery.
11:16 jQuery plugins.
13:00 Did you ever make money from jQuery?
16:13 What is your role at Khan Academy.
17:58 What is the tech stack at Khan Academy?
21:56 Why do you want to change your CSS and JS framework?
24:03 TypeScript vs Flow.
25:25 GraphQL federation.
28:08 What was your frontend framework journey?
30:23 Is there any part of React you wish would improve?
32:37 Reservations using React Router.
33:14 Khan Academy web platform vs native platform.
35:21 What do you use for state management?
38:48 What’s harder than it should be on the web today? Kilian’s Question On X.
Polypane.app.
42:46 Opinions on JavaScript Sprinkles.
44:04 What’s with the $ sign in jQuery?
45:29 The challenges of having your name in such a widely used software.
51:06 Challenges with server-side rendering in React.
52:42 Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs.
54:48 What are the performance issues associated with internationalization?
56:57 Back to Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs.
Sick Picks John: Biome, Remix, Lingui.
Shameless Plugs John: Khan Academy.
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Rapid Response: Meet your kid’s new AI tutor, w/Khan Academy founder and CEO Sal Khan
Khan Academy first rocked the education world with online video. Now Khan Academy CEO and founder Sal Khan has gone all-in on AI, convinced that it has immense potential to democratize and improve education. Khan tells Rapid Response host Bob Safian how an early outreach from OpenAI led Khan Academy to create an AI assistant called Khanmigo, which is already being used by thousands of students and teachers. Khan shares lessons from this real-world experiment, plus the inspiration behind his new book, Brave New Words, and why the most educated among us tend to avoid the risks worth taking.
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#154 Sal Khan: Revolutionizing Education with AI
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Join us on episode #154 of Eye on AI as Craig Smith sits down with Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy, a non-profit educational organization that provides free online courses, lessons, and practice exercises across a wide range of subjects to learners worldwide.
In this episode, Sal shares the journey of Khan Academy's growth from a small tutoring project to a global educational platform. He discusses the challenges and successes in integrating AI into educational systems, emphasizing its efficacy in enhancing student engagement and learning outcomes. Sal also sheds light on the potential of generative AI in language learning, illustrating how it bridges cultural and linguistic gaps, especially for students navigating between their native language and English.
The conversation further delves into the impact of AI-powered education in resource-limited settings, exemplifying its potential as a game-changer in global education. We touch upon the skepticism towards free educational resources, a hurdle especially prevalent in poorer regions of the world. Sal Khan addresses this irony, sharing strategies to overcome these barriers and increase awareness and adoption of such resources.
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(00:00) Preview and Intro (03:02) Sal Khan's Background and the Origins of Khan Academy (08:18) AI Integration in Khan Academy's Learning Platform (11:54) Khanmigo: The AI Tutor from Khan Academy (17:43) Khan Academy's Business Model (23:32) Future of AI Tutors and Engaging Learning Experiences (28:16) Khan Academy's Global Reach and Accessibility (34:17) How is Sal Expanding Khan Academy's AI Capabilities? (38:50) Addressing Skepticism and Misuse of AI in Education (41:19) Sal Khan's Message on the Future of AI in Education
The AI Tutor For Every Child and the Next Frontier of Education, From Khan Academy’s Creator Sal Khan
The future of education is right at your children’s fingertips. Sal Khan, CEO and Founder of Khan Academy, joins Sarah Guo and Elad Gil this week on No Priors. For over a decade, Sal Khan has been trying to reform education, beginning with tutoring his cousins in math.
He's the father of the YouTube "chalk talk" format, and has now served tens of millions of students through Khan Academy.
He guides us through how Khan Academy is using AI to personalize a student's educational experience, transporting students into immersive learning experiences that allow them to debate historical figures, to assisting teachers with lesson plans that address the learning gaps keeping students from reaching their full potential, to a Khanmigo, a tutor for every child.
Prior to founding Khan Academy, Sal worked as a hedge fund analyst. He holds an MS in business from Harvard University, as well as an MS in Engineering and a BS in Computer Science from MIT.
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Show Notes:
[0:00:06] - Sal Khan's Journey
[0:08:41] - Mastery Learning and AI in Education
[0:19:53] - Future of AI Tutors in Education
[0:23:10] - Education's Future With Generative AI
[0:29:35] - Connecting Learning Through Tutoring and Collaboration
[0:33:22] - Implications of GPT 4 on Education
[0:40:42] - Future of Education and Job Skills
[0:46:47] - Importance of Traditional Skills in Education
E53: The AI Revolution in Education with Shawn Jansepar, Director of Engineering at Khan Academy
In this episode, Nathan sits down with Shawn Jansepar, Director of Engineering at Khan Academy, to discuss their GPT-4 powered Socratic tutor, Khanmigo. In this conversation, Shawn and Nathan chat about Khan Academy’s collaboration with OpenAI and how they helped fine-tune GPT-4, how Khan Academy leveraged GPT-4 to build Khanmigo, and the impact of providing access to an AI tutor to any student. If you're looking for an ERP platform, check out our sponsor, NetSuite: http://netsuite.com/cognitive
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(04:42) Khan Academy’s early access partnership with OpenAI
(06:31) Khanmigo: journey from Chrome extension to AI tutor
(11:36) GPT-4’s ability to be Socratic vs 3.5
(15:05) Sponsors: Netsuite | Omneky
(16:40) Integrating Khan Academy’s Pedagogy into AI
(20:06) The future of education 10 years from now
(22:37) Khan Academy’s models
(27:20) Demo-driven development process
(31:16) Sculpting the behaviour of a Socratic tutor model
(35:59) Khan Academy’s contribution to GPT-4’s fine-tuning and RLHF
(38:41) Being data-informed vs data-driven as a practice
(42:10) Incurring tech debt to get ahead of the curve
(45:28) The boundary for what an AI can/can’t t tutor
(49:30) Identifying when the user is confused and avoiding AI hallucinations
(53:54) Khanmigo’s development patterns
(59:11) Making Khanmigo jailbreak resistant
(01:01:50) Delivering personalized education with AI
(01:04:08) How Shawn and his team are thinking about AI education
(01:05:33) Khanmigo’s future multimodal interactivity
(01:08:42) Evaluating Khanmigo’s efficacy for student learning
(01:11:41) How widely is Khanmigo deployed today and what is the future for universal public access?
(01:05:11) Distribution through teachers and districts
(01:16:30) What are the reactions from teachers and education institutions to AI?
(01:18:15) Khanmigo’s pricing model
(01:19:03) The future roadmap for Khanmigo
(01:20:45) How will the AI tutor change the world at large?
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When AI is your personal tutor with Sal Khan of Khan Academy
The COVID-19 pandemic changed education forever. But Sal Khan says an even bigger educational revolution is just around the corner …
This week on How I Built This Lab, Sal returns to the show to talk about a new learning platform he’s building at Khan Academy. It’s called Khanmigo, and it uses the same generative AI technology behind OpenAI’s world-changing ChatGPT to help students with their schoolwork. The technology isn’t without its risks, but Sal thinks Khanmigo could act as a personal tutor for every student and a teaching assistant for every educator - reshaping the classroom for good.
This episode was produced by Alex Cheng and edited by John Isabella, with music by Ramtin Arablouei. Our audio engineer was Neal Rauch.
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How AI could save (not destroy) education | Sal Khan
Sal Khan, the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, thinks artificial intelligence could spark the greatest positive transformation education has ever seen. He shares the opportunities he sees for students and educators to collaborate with AI tools -- including the potential of a personal AI tutor for every student and an AI teaching assistant for every teacher -- and demos some exciting new features for their educational chatbot, Khanmigo.
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Decoder: The future of remote learning with Sal Khan of Khan Academy
For the next few Tuesday's, we'll be sharing Nilay Patel's new podcast Decoder, an interview show that puts a spotlight on how innovators and policymakers at the frontiers of business and technology are navigating an ever-changing landscape.
On this week’s episode of Decoder, Nilay Patel talks with Sal Khan, the co-founder and CEO of Khan Academy, a nonprofit online learning platform for students in kindergarten through high school. Khan Academy is an organization that exists because of technology. What started with Sal tutoring his niece in math over video using off the shelf cameras and software, has grown into an organization with nearly 20 million users per month, available in 46 languages and used in more than 190 countries. And online learning has gotten even more vital with the pandemic.
In this conversation, Nilay and Sal discuss the future of learning, what online education is good at and where it struggles, how Khan Academy is growing, and how Sal’s thinking about handling trickier subjects like history and social studies.
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Remote learning is here to stay — can we make it better?
On this week’s episode of Decoder, Nilay Patel talks with Sal Khan, the co-founder and CEO of Khan Academy, a nonprofit online learning platform for students in kindergarten through high school. Khan Academy is an organization that exists because of technology. What started with Sal tutoring his niece in math over video using off the shelf cameras and software, has grown into an organization with nearly 20 million users per month, available in 46 languages and used in more than 190 countries. And online learning has gotten even more vital with the pandemic.
In this conversation, Nilay and Sal discuss the future of learning, what online education is good at and where it struggles, how Khan Academy is growing, and how Sal’s thinking about handling trickier subjects like history and social studies.
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The Future of Education and AI with Salman Khan - #423
In the final #TWIMLfest Keynote Interview, we’re joined by Salman Khan, Founder of Khan Academy.
In our conversation with Sal, we explore the amazing origin story of the academy, and how coronavirus is shaping the future of education and remote and distance learning, for better and for worse. We also explore Sal’s perspective on machine learning and AI being used broadly in education, the potential of injecting a platform like Khan Academy with ML and AI for course recommendations, and if they’re planning on implementing these features in the future.
Finally, Sal shares some great stories about the impact of community and opportunity, and what advice he has for learners within the TWIML community and beyond!
The complete show notes for this episode can be found at twimlai.com/go/423.
Khan Academy: Sal Khan
In 2009, Sal Khan walked away from a high-paying job to start a business that had no way of making money. His idea to launch a non-profit teaching platform was ignited five years earlier, when he was helping his young cousins do math homework over the computer. They loved his clear explanations and soon he was posting free tutorials on Youtube, where they started to attract the attention of thousands of users around the world. Sal realized he could help democratize learning by building a free platform to teach math, science, and the humanities. Today, Khan Academy offers hundreds of free recorded tutorials in dozens of languages. During the pandemic, its popularity has surged to 30 million users a month.
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REST easy, GraphQL is here (Interview)
In this special rebroadcast of JS Party, Jerod and Suz talk with John Resig about how he’s using GraphQL at Khan Academy, some of the mistakes and successes using GraphQL, John’s feelings on jQuery, and community Q&A.
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REST easy, GraphQL is here
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Podcast #121 - Another Ducking Episode
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Ep. 145 - Codeland - NYPL and Khan Academy talks from Courteney Ervin and Celia La (Courteney Ervin, Celia La)
Courteney Ervin shares the ups and downs of building a product for one of the largest library systems in the world. Celia La walks us through the technical challenges (and solutions) of bringing Khan Academy's high quality content to people all over the world.
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Courteney Ervin codes in the space where open source meets social good. She’s a developer at the New York Public Library, where she supports accessible literacy in NYC and beyond.
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Celia La is a software engineer at Khan Academy, board member for Write/Speak/Code and BigApplePy, and organizer for NYC PyLadies and PyGotham. In her free time, Celia enjoys cooking, biking, and spending time with her husband, daughter and curmudgeonly cat.
Ep. 36 - Creating jQuery (John Resig)
John Resig, creator of jQuery, talks about what it was like to build the most popular javascript library and then walk away from it five years later to follow his passion for education. We unpack what it’s like to maintain such a popular toolkit, how he feels about books, how he takes on his own learning, and why he made the Women Who Code twitter list.
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John Resig is a developer at Khan Academy and the creator of the jQuery JavaScript library. He’s also the author of the books Pro JavaScript Techniques and Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja.
Mobile Web Development and jQuery (Interview)
Adam and Wynn caught up with John Resig at TXJS and talked about mobile web development with jQuery and TestSwarm, a continuous integration project from Mozilla Labs.
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TestSwarm - Distributed continuous integration testing for JavaScript.
Pro JavaScript Techniques John’s JavaScript book
Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja John’s upcoming book of trade secrets
WebKit - The rendering engine behind Safari, Chrome, and a growing number of mobile browsers
PhoneGap - Bridges the gap between the web and native functions on the iPhone, Android, and Blackberry
Fennec Firefox for mobile devices
Opera Dragonfly - cross device, cross platform debugging environment for the Opera browser-debug JavaScript, inspect and edit CSS and the DOM
jQTouch - jQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone, iPod Touch
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