Khan Academy on the Gates Notes

Bill Gates talks about the Khan Academy on the Gates Notes

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Hi! My name is Sal Khan

I'm the founder and faculty of Khan Academy

and we're trying to educate the world!

Welcome to the presentation on basic addition!

But in August 1789, they've already done

their version of the Declaration of Independence.

And the process is called photosynthesis.

I was tutoring my cousins, literally,

and I had to kind of figure out a way to scale myself up

so I started recording YouTube videos

and I started making little software modules for them,

but I made it so anyone could use them

and it started getting a lot of traction.

What Sal Khan has done is amazing.

He has taken all this material

and broken then down into little twelve-minute lectures.

I use it myself to remind myself of things.

I have children who like it.

So I was super happy he came and up

and we got to talk about where it is he can go now,

how can my foundation help him pursue this dream

and connect it up with the other great things

that are going on on the internet.

I want it to be a stand alone virtual school

where anyone in the world who wants to learn anything

can go there, start from the basics

progress as far as they need to go,

get feedback, get assessment,

get practice and eventually

I want it to actually become the operating system

for what goes on in the classroom where

every student is allowed to work at their own pace

and the teacher actually becomes

more of a mentor or more of a coach.

So I see Sal Khan as a pioneer

and an overall movement to use technology

to let more and more people learn things,

know where they stand.

the start of a revolution!

All the videos are all free,

openly accessible at www.KhanAcademy.org.

I think it's a huge contribution.

Everybody should check it out.

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