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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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