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Khan Academy on the Gates Notes

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    Hi! My name is Sal Khan
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    I'm the founder and faculty of Khan Academy
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    and we're trying to educate the world!
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    Welcome to the presentation on basic addition!
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    But in August 1789, they've already done
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    their version of the Declaration of Independence.
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    And the process is called photosynthesis.
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    I was tutoring my cousins, literally,
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    and I had to kind of figure out a way to scale myself up
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    so I started recording YouTube videos
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    and I started making little software modules for them,
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    but I made it so anyone could use them
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    and it started getting a lot of traction.
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    What Sal Khan has done is amazing.
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    He has taken all this material
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    and broken then down into little twelve-minute lectures.
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    I use it myself to remind myself of things.
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    I have children who like it.
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    So I was super happy he came and up
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    and we got to talk about where it is he can go now,
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    how can my foundation help him pursue this dream
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    and connect it up with the other great things
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    that are going on on the internet.
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    I want it to be a stand alone virtual school
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    where anyone in the world who wants to learn anything
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    can go there, start from the basics
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    progress as far as they need to go,
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    get feedback, get assessment,
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    get practice and eventually
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    I want it to actually become the operating system
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    for what goes on in the classroom where
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    every student is allowed to work at their own pace
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    and the teacher actually becomes
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    more of a mentor or more of a coach.
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    So I see Sal Khan as a pioneer
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    and an overall movement to use technology
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    to let more and more people learn things,
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    know where they stand.
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    the start of a revolution!
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    All the videos are all free,
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    openly accessible at www.KhanAcademy.org.
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    I think it's a huge contribution.
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    Everybody should check it out.
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Title:
Khan Academy on the Gates Notes
Description:

Bill Gates talks about the Khan Academy on the Gates Notes

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Video Language:
English
Duration:
02:22

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