![]() That video artifact is then peer reviewed by others on the platform who have already proved their mastery of the concept to assess whether a student has mastered at least 90% of the concept. In essence, students record their face and screen as they take a Khan Academy assessment and explain their reasoning out loud. ![]() Khan Academy operates a tutoring site called Schoolhouse.world, which is also a platform to validate mastery. ![]() The way in which the school will assess mastery is what’s perhaps most novel. The next part of the Khan World School will tackle students’ core learning with a focus on student mastery. These seminar groupings would include mixed-age learning-a key tenet of the Khan Lab School, a Silicon Valley-based school that Khan and his team have been operating since 2014. I argue in my forthcoming book, “ From Reopen to Reinvent,” that this should be one of the six central purposes of K–12 schools: to help students understand that people can see things differently-and that those differences merit respect rather than persecution. “We want to be able to have a place where we can have conversations, and teach students, and maybe the world, that there's a way to have conversations and to be able to disagree about these things, but be able to do it respectfully, and learn from each other,” Khan said. ![]() ![]() The Khan World School is aiming to tackle that stereotype with a daily, synchronous seminar where students debate topics that often aren’t discussed in schools-things like “Will the Fed be able to control inflation? Will CRISPR change the human genome? And social media be blamed for the polarization in the world?,” Khan said. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |