Khan Academy Founder Salman Khan on Liberating the Classroom for Creativity

The founder of Khan Academy (http://www.youtube.com/khanacademy), a free educational video library that features over two thousand titles and an interactive dashboard for formative assessment, discusses how his videos can help create a "flipped classroom" that allows lectures to happen at home and project-based learning to happen during school. For more about blended learning, visit http://www.edutopia.org/blog/combinin...

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[sendricardo]

I liked the video and I am about to consult your website, but if you accept suggestions, I think you should have shown the dashboards in action even if just for a minute. If you already have done this in a previous video then I apologize in advance.

[edutopia]

Thanks for the suggestion. We haven't shown the dashboard in other videos, but here's a great video from the Khan Academy channel that describes how the dashboard works: The Gates Notes: Insights into Students' Progress.

[Maragh Summer]

What song is playing in the background at the beginning? It sounds similar to a movie soundtrack that I can't think of...

[edutopia]

I'm glad you like the song. It's called "A Modern Fairytale" and I selected it for its fun and playful nature.

The song is not publicly available however. It's from APMmusic.com, which supplies all of the music that we use to score Edutopia's video soundtracks. It's entirely possible that it's been used in other films or TV shows - APM is a very well known library in the video production world! Sorry I can't be more specific.

[schnide]

real life superman

[Zzyzzyster]

Sal Khan. The man with the plan.

[terminatortscc1]

hero 

[Amy Erin Borovoy]

Hi sendricardo -- I work in video at Edutopia. Since we last responded to your comment, we actually have published a video that shows Khan Academy in use in the classroom, with a glimpse of the dashboards. You can see it here: youtube.com/watch?v=wAvWvP7jvR­I

[jiiip96]

Hero

[Cameron Belt]

I would love to see full length documentary on this guy, like a waiting for superman type thing

[eugeo1234]

Edward Scissorhands? :)

[water0384]

I am going to complete my bachelor degree. Frankly speaking, I didn't like most of the assignments in my academic life. Nevertheless I started surfing Khan Academy's resource to learn about the things that interest me. I found it so fascinating that I watched videos on very primary ideas just to see how interesting the learning process can be.He could have capitalized his academy, but he didn't. That clearly shows that we still have some people around us who value good things over money.

[DeaddudeRS]

@Jordan Holzschuher

as much as I think we would all like it, Salman Klan right now is doing a lot more to change the world then I think he ever could as President of the united States.

He is the teacher that is reaching out to millions upon millions of peoples,kids,adults,students etc who just want to learn.

And it is Working.

When You can affect the lives of that many people by educating them,you have done more to change the world then any President ever could.

[Jennifer Johnson]

This man will go down as one of the finest education reformers in history.

[TheRania69]

My daughter is currently in tenth grade ,on a student exchange program in the US . I was worried about the challenges she might face academically due to the differences in the education systems between my country Palestine and the US. Now, after discovering Khan Academy lessons , I do not have to stay up late and skype with her to make sure she did her homework or not, whether she went to math help or not.. the lessons are very helpful.. Thank you!

[KeyesAnthony]

Sal is the man, man!