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The One World Schoolhouse

Education Reimagined

by Salman Khan
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A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere: this is the goal of the Khan Academy, a passion project that grew from an ex-engineer and hedge funder's online tutoring sessions with his niece, who was struggling with algebra, into a worldwide phenomenon. Today millions of students, parents, and teachers use the Khan Academy's free videos and software, which have expanded to encompass nearly every conceivable subject; and Academy techniques are being employed with exciting results in a growing number of classrooms around the globe.
Like many innovators, Khan rethinks existing assumptions and imagines what education could be if freed from them. And his core idea-liberating teachers from lecturing and state-mandated calendars and opening up class time for truly human interaction-has become his life's passion. Schools seek his advice about connecting to students in a digital age, and people of all ages and backgrounds flock to the site to utilize this fresh approach to learning.
In The One World Schoolhouse, Khan presents his radical vision for the future of education, as well as his own remarkable story, for the first time. In these pages, you will discover, among other things:
  • How both students and teachers are being bound by a broken top-down model invented in Prussia two centuries ago
  • Why technology will make classrooms more human and teachers more important
  • How and why we can afford to pay educators the same as other professionals
  • How we can bring creativity and true human interactivity back to learning
  • Why we should be very optimistic about the future of learning.
    • Parents and politicians routinely bemoan the state of our education system. Statistics suggest we've fallen behind the rest of the world in literacy, math, and sciences. With a shrewd reading of history, Khan explains how this crisis presented itself, and why a return to "mastery learning," abandoned in the twentieth century and ingeniously revived by tools like the Khan Academy, could offer the best opportunity to level the playing field, and to give all of our children a world-class education now.
    More than just a solution, The One World Schoolhouse serves as a call for free, universal, global education, and an explanation of how Khan's simple yet revolutionary thinking can help achieve this inspiring goal.

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      October 2, 2012

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        • ISBN: 9781455518630

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        • ISBN: 9781455508396

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      • English

    • Reviews

      • Kirkus

        September 1, 2012
        An exciting concept for reforming education. In today's society, most students learn a variety of subjects primarily by lectures, with the goal of passing certain standardized tests before moving on to another series of subjects. Former hedge fund analyst Khan questioned this educational model, believing it did nothing to show true mastery of a topic. Candidly and enthusiastically, he details how he originally started what is now known as the Khan Academy by creating a series of YouTube videos to help his cousin with her understanding of math. Supported by Google and The Gates Foundation, those videos have evolved at the Khan Academy website to cover math, science, history and art, among other subjects. They have been used by millions around the world. Khan believes in using modern technology via individual video learning with assessments based on a solid understanding of a theme. Students spend classroom time among peers and talented teachers, who help them reach certain levels of comprehension before progressing to the next level of learning. The author stresses the concept that all subjects are interrelated and that learning should be self-paced and self-motivated with mixed age groups helping one another. He includes in-depth analysis of the most common educational models (lectures and testing for certain topics) and compares it to his methods. Khan's excitement is palpable as he imagines future schoolrooms as sources of "true creativity" where "mistakes are allowed, tangents are encouraged, and big thinking is celebrated as a process." His hope is that modern technology and his videos will allow access to a free education to anyone, young or old, around the world. A fresh, welcome approach to education.

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      • Library Journal

        May 15, 2012

        While tutoring his niece online in algebra, hedge fund analyst Khan got the bright idea of providing free, first-class education online to anyone who wanted it. Now, the Khan Academy is flourishing on YouTube, with millions viewing and subscribing to courses in every area imaginable. Key reading: Khan was just named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People in the World.

        Copyright 2012 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

      • Library Journal

        November 1, 2012

        Over the past year Khan, the founder of the free online education site Khan Academy, has been featured in Wired and TIME magazines, appeared on CBS News, and was a featured TED speaker. Here he tells the story of Khan Academy's creation (it began with a series of videos he posted on YouTube to tutor his niece in math) and explains how this experience led him to question the traditional educational model. Khan advocates reversing, or "flipping," the traditional model by assigning the lecture as homework and using class time to discuss and clarify the information presented in the lecture (a theory also discussed in Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day by Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams). Khan uses the second half of the book to detail how he believes his model can succeed where the traditional one fails and to expand on his "one world schoolhouse" vision. VERDICT An easy, entertaining, thought-provoking read for educators, administrators, and parents.--Sara Holder, McGill Univ. Lib., Montreal

        Copyright 2012 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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