We're thinking very seriously about Android and mobile to reach students where they are.Įven in the first year, when we did pilots in Los Altos, one of the classes that used it was a remedial math class. Right after we did the iPad launch and we saw the success there and we saw the interest there, that’s the next thing down the pipeline. With your global reach and Android’s status as the most widely used mobile OS in the world, is there an official app for that platform on the way?
The kids are with the tablet and they’re able to do the questions right there, and it actually reads what they wrote and can progress them at the right time or pace. It’s kind of like what we probably envisioned the future of education would look like. I think it’s now kind of the flagship experience for using Khan Academy, because you just have to get a tablet out. With the kids that I’ve observed, and actually even just using it myself, it’s a pretty transformational experience. And wouldn’t it be amazing if it had handwriting recognition? You could literally write with your finger the square root of cosine of x, and it would just recognize it. We always said what’s obvious about a tablet interface is you can do the work on the tablet. That’s great, but you have to have kind of separate scratch paper, and you have to type in your answers. In the past, that’s been primarily done through the web. But most of what we’ve invested in is interactive, adaptive, personalized software, where you get as much practice as you need and understand what your gaps are, what you need to work on. What did you want to focus on in particular in that experience compared to other platforms?Īs you know, Khan Academy is often known, or has been known in the past, for its collection of videos-and that’s a big part of Khan Academy. You recently released an official iPad app. When I hear stories like that, that’s pretty exciting. Now she’s racing ahead and about to go to college. So she dropped out of that school and she went to another school that was heavily using Khan Academy, and that allowed her to get an A in algebra. In algebra, when she was in ninth grade, she got, like, a 13 on an exam. Actually, while I was there, I met a young woman who-I guess she had some neurological issues. Every time you give a talk or a presentation like this, there’s always the people who come up at the end and they talk about what’s happening at their schools. This was actually the first time that I’ve spoken there, so it was really great to see, and I’ve been told that it’s been growing pretty dramatically.ĭid you see or hear anything particularly interesting?įor me, it’s always actually the individual stories.
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