I actually got a natural high and I remember seeing all of this matrix text in class but here I am like I know kung fu!” “The first time I smiled doing a derivative.” And down the chain of that response was, “Same here. Sal Khan at his TED TALK ted.orgSome of that initial feedback included emails and letters from grateful parents and students:
The first time you are wrapping your head around a new concept, the last thing you need is someone asking, ‘Do you understand?’” Plus, they could move on at their own pace. They could review them at their own pace and in their own time without being embarrassed or thinking they should already know this. Because now they could pause and repeat their cousins’ lessons. He told me, “My cousins said they preferred virtual Sal to in person Sal and that made sense to me. People were discovering his little videos and the response was mostly positive and changing people’s lives - especially students who had been having trouble learning. He started getting feedback from around the world. He started sending them YouTube videos for a supplement to what he was teaching them and decided to make them available on YouTube as well. How did this all start? Well 7 years ago, Sal was a hedge fund analyst in Boston and tutoring his cousins who lived in New Orleans. But Sal believes that teachers and students within the classic school structure can now supercharge their education using the tools the academy makes available online for free.
Wherever they are, in or out of a classroom, they can now self-educate, if need be, to get where they dream of being. In his acceptance speech for the GLOBAL EDUCATOR AWARD at this year’s MY HERO International Film Festival, he tells us that Khan Academy is now reaching hundreds of millions of students around the world and he believes it can be billions. Sal Khan is the founder of KHAN ACADEMY, whose mission is to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Sal Khan Sal Khan may have changed the face of education forever: and millions of students, teachers and life-long learners are grateful that he did.
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