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Lesson 3: Connecting what we're doing today to the vision- How does the thing I'm working on now tie into this broader vision?
- What role do adoption programs like LearnStorm play in helping us achieve this goal?
- What types of partnerships do we need to establish?
- What should I do differently on a daily basis because of this mission?
- How does a small team tackle this big vision?
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How does a small team tackle this big vision?
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- The Khan Academy has a big vision and a big mission. I think this is why we all came here. This is why we all are dedicating-- I hope to do this until
I can't do it anymore. But everyone at Khan Academy is giving years of their life to this. I think it's because we feel that it's truly going to have impact. We're not just trying to
drive a bottom line of dollars or just trying to get eyeballs just to say that we got eyeballs. We want people to feel like they've tapped into their potential. We want, ten years in the future, twenty years in future, we all want to be able
to look back and say "Wow, those millions of people "got empowered through
our collective work." It's a big vision. The key is is how do we do that in a way that doesn't spread ourselves too thin, in a way that keeps us
from achieving the vision because we get spread too thin. It's an interesting balance. The good thing is many
pieces of the vision, scaling up the content to
be able to hit K through 14, creating a platform where it's available in multiple modalities, where it could be localized, having a personalized learning engine either for common core math or for SAT. These things already exist and we will only improve them
over time through iteration. But there's a few other things that we probably will explore over time. Things like peer to peer learning, either us directly or
partnering with folks who think about credentialing, how do you do portfolios. But it's not an infinite list. I just listed three incremental things. To be clear, this is a ten year vision. The key is we got to do it
in a way that's responsible. I don't think in the very near future we're going to feel like
we have nothing to do, we're just going to be
twiddling our thumbs. We need to serialize some of these. We need to do them in realistic ways. But I think, if you look at the scope of ten years and frankly if you look at ten years back. Twelve years ago, I was tutoring cousins. Ten years, roughly ten years ago, I made the first video. If you look at how much
we as a team have done over the last ten years, frankly if you average the
number of people we had over the last ten years, it was probably close to the low teens or twenty or so folks. Then what we could do
over the next ten years, I think a lot of what
we talk about is doable. At the same time, it's crazy that it's doable because we're talking about something that doesn't happen a lot in history. We're fundamentally trying
to change a paradigm for, I'd argue, the most important system in the world.