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- I am Sal Khan, founder of the
not-for-profit Khan Academy.
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As you probably know,
we have a big mission,
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to provide a free world-class education
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for anyone, anywhere.
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And we know that the most important people
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in that mission are you, the teacher.
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And so that's why from the beginning,
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Khan Academy has always
worked closely with teachers
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to be able to create tools for teachers
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so that they can use
it with their students
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and allow the students' learning
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to happen as well as possible.
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And so that's why we're excited
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that you are a part of this training.
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Because I've always said, if I had to pick
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between an amazing teacher
and amazing technology,
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I would pick the amazing
teacher every time.
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The good thing is we don't
have to make that trade-off.
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And so, here at Khan Academy,
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we are trying to build tools for you,
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tools that will make your life easier,
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that will save you time,
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and will help you serve
your students better.
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- So Khan Academy is an online
educational set of resources.
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It is a combination of world-class content
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that spans from kindergarten
all the way to 12th grade,
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and in some cases, the first
and second year of college.
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And then we span across many subjects.
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There's two pieces that I
think makes it very unique.
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One is not just world-class content,
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but it's taught in a way that
is very easy to understand.
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We also build a lot of what we call
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social-emotional learning
elements into the platform.
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'Cause learning is hard.
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It can be intimidating.
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You could feel under-confident,
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you could feel not very smart,
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learning something that's very new to you.
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So our product of content and software,
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the combination of both,
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we try to make it so
it's easy to understand,
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that it's fun, that's it's
engaging, that it motivates you,
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that it helps build your self-confidence
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so that you can start
to be a self-motivated,
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independent learner, to
be a lifelong learner.
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And what makes us unique
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is those elements of not just the content
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but the social-emotional
learning part of the software,
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as well as we have a lot
of built-in intelligence
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to know exactly where you are
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and all the steps that you need to learn.
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So we have this thing
called a Knowledge Map
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inside our product that let's you say,
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"Gosh, if I wanna learn calculus some day,
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"I need to know these
foundational elements first,
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"and then I can build on
top," sort of like a house.
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We have the foundational elements,
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and then you know how to
build the first story,
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and then you put the second story,
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and we connect all those dots for you.
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Our reach and our scale today,
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we are in over 190
countries across the world.
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We are translated in over 30
languages across the world
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by amazing advocates,
volunteers that help us do this
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because they believe
so much in our mission.
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And it does really take a
village to make that happen.
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It is unfortunate there's a misconception
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of us wanting to replace the teacher.
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Absolutely not.
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There is no way that we
can replace the teacher.
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They are such an important
part of the student's life.
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For us, it's about providing tools
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and functionality for the teacher
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to empower them, to give them agency,
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to be better than they can ever be,
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to be more efficient,
to be more effective.
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So tools and insights that we can do
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to help the teacher so that they can
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be the best that they can
be for these students.
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The people at Khan Academy are amazing.
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I am so blessed to run this company
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because the people, I have 200 plus people
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whose sole goal is to enable
this mission to happen.
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They just want to really
transform the educational industry
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to really help those
under-served children.
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And that's what they eat,
breathe, and sleep, every day.
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- So we're excited that
you're part of this training.
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Hopefully, you will find everything
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that we are able to provide
to you to be of use.
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And we are looking forward
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to getting your feedback
about how together
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we can better serve you and your students.
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Thank you.