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Khan Academy at Summit Prep
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- No one ever says, "Oh, I just don't read,"
- or, "I didn't like the English language"
- But it's totally okay and socially acceptable to say,
- "Oh, I don't do math."
- We live in a really quantitative world,
- and I want to help students see how math is everywhere.
- When they shoot a basketball;
- when they drink a cup of water;
- and I want them to be able to think quantitatively;
- because that's, to me, a huge skill
- that'll get them ahead in life In a lot of different ways.
- Summit San Jose is the third school
- in the Summit Public Schools network.
- The first school, Summit Prep, was featured in
- Waiting For Superman, a few years ago.
- And we just started, this year,
- as the third school in the network.
- We decided we would do something different
- than the other Summit schools,
- when we opened this school up.
- So, we have this special math program.
- We combine face-to-face instruction
- with this computer-based learning --
- in ways that make the most sense for kids,
- to create the best learning experiences.
- I heard about Khan Academy last school year,
- probably when the first TED Talk aired.
- We looked at all different content providers.
- And they promised that they would give us
- a strong relationship, and help us out when we needed it.
- We started the year not knowing what would unfold at all.
- We've really worked with them on saying what we need.
- And they've been really good at giving us what we need,
- and what other teachers need.
- And I think that's only going to get better and better.
- Khan Academy is great for a lot of reasons.
- It makes your job harder,
- because it just sets your bar higher
- of what you should be planning for your students.
- When you get all that data--that's really easy to access--
- it pushes you to say, "Maybe this lesson,
- that I thought was good for my whole class,
- is only good for 20 percent of my class.
- I should go back and think about
- what I'm really asking my students to do--
- whether that's something that's on too high of a level
- for 80 percent of the class,
- or something that's too low of a level for the class.
- When you assign homework,
- oftentimes you're solidifying bad practices,
- and you're solidifying misconceptions.
- What Khan is really good at doing is giving instant feedback,
- to all 36 kids in my classroom
- In a way that I could never do.
- So, every student, on every problem,
- is getting instant feedback.
- Those misconceptions are not solidified.
- I think that's the one thing Khan has changed dramatically is
- now, they're learning processes,
- they're learning how to do them correctly,
- as opposed to just learning how to get by.
- The students kind of see it as a video game
- where, [as] in a video game, you fail all the time. Right?
- In math you fail all the time.
- In everything in school you should fail all the time,
- and you should learn from those mistakes.
- and what we've noticed that has been great is that
- students learn from their mistakes, before it's too late,
- and they grow, and they learn the math;
- instead of continuing to pretend they understand it.
- Just like for any adult, goal setting is very important.
- And we've found, with the students,
- making those goals very specific, and very attainable,
- are things that get them motivated.
- Everybody can go on Khan Academy now and say
- "I have a goal to finish these six exercises."
- And it keeps track of it on the top,
- it shows you what percentage of it you've finished,
- and then it tells you when you're finished with you're goal
- and our students have really liked that validation,
- that they set a goal, and that they completed it,
- and they had a sense of accomplishment from it. :)
- It's changed my students,
- because they're more accountable,
- and they know where they're at.
- They definitely have a sense
- of whether they know something or they don't.
- They're much more vocal,
- and they advocate for themselves.
- And it's changed me,
- because I know a lot more about my students.
- Khan Academy doesn't allow the students
- to hide the deficits in their knowledge.
- It really challenges you to provide really excellent lessons
- for as many students as possible,
- because you just have all of this information
- about your students.
- It's great for motivation, it's great for practice.
- I wouldn't go back and teach another way,
- if I'd had the choice.
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