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 argues that all schools should change their model to allow learners to work to achieve mastery at their own unique pace.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. At that point, the learner hits a wall in their progress.įortunately, with the developments and use of educational adaptive technology this no longer has to be the case.

Unfortunately, when you move forward on a shaky foundation the cracks will eventually break down and the gaps will prevent you, sometimes many years later, from understanding and moving forward. One teacher at the front of the room had to teach to the average, that means moving forward at a set pace, regardless of whether the material was mastered.

While previous studies found that the mastery model does produce a better outcome, it was rejected as a possibility because it wasn’t scalable in large schools. In comparison, the traditional educational model forces you to move forward regardless of gaps. You don’t move onto new material until the foundational skills have been mastered. In the above video, Sal Khan talks about the mastery model of learning and how it allows us to fill in gaps that may exist in our knowledge and skills as well as learn new material without gaps. This means that they assess and evaluate and then provide a lesson plan that is suited to the individual learner. What we look for in the tools and programs that we use is their ability to adapt to the user. Khan Academy is used as just one of the adaptive technology tools at IGNITE: An Acton Academy.

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