Salmon Khan offers an inspiring TED Talk highlighting his approach to transforming education through technology. He founded Khan Academy after realizing that his cousins preferred his YouTube video interaction over his actual interaction. By enabling students to learn at their own pace and review things they didn’t quite get, his platform give students the flexibility to achieve mastery in every topic before moving on. In a normal classroom, you get your grade and move on regardless of your mastery of the subject covered.
By focusing on proven mastery of a subject (get it right 10 times in a row) over one-size-fits all, Khan has leveraged technology to create a disruptive model of education. I think it’s a great starting point and I look forward to seeing competition around student mastery of education over the current metrics we use today.
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