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Khan: Generative AI accelerated education technology timeline by 20 years
“Generative AI kind of jumped us forward 20 years faster.”
Sal Khan: 40% of teachers used ChatGPT within months of release
“Within a month or two, 40% of teachers were using this very imperfect tool for themselves for things like lesson planning, and students were already using it”
Sal Khan: Khan Academy launching AI college essay tool within months
“In a couple of months we're going to be launching something, we're going to initially do it for college essays, which is a whole other, this is the first college admission cycle in the chat GPT era, so it's going to be very interesting.”
Khan: Average US student learns only 0.6 to 0.7 grade levels yearly
“And that's because the average American student learns about .6 to .7 grade levels per year. Which, yeah, after 12 years, you're at a seventh grade level.”
Khan: 30–60 mins weekly on Khan Academy accelerates learning by 40%–50%
“Students put in 30 to 60 minutes a week, so not like a huge amount. They're accelerating 40, 50%.”
Khan: Star Trek-style immersive VR learning will happen in next 5 years
“And then I think you start to merge these things with platforms like you're hearing, and it becomes completely immersive. You can go to ancient Rome, you could talk to Caesar, you could talk to Cleopatra It, it's like the holodeck on Star Trek, and I honestly …”
Sal Khan: AI interaction logs let teachers grade process over output
“When you work with the AI and all of the interactions are logged a teacher can actually not just introspect on the final outcome, they can introspect on the process.”
Khan: Hesitancy to adopt edtech will exacerbate educational inequality
“And don't let fear get in the way of trying something out, because if we do that, all that's going to happen is all of our kids are going to benefit from all of this. I'm not worried about them, but then the other kids are not, and then that's going to create …”
Sal Khan: Khanmigo refuses to give direct answers to students
“If you ask Conmigo hey, tell me the answer, it will not tell you the answer, but say I'm your tutor, it'll act Socratic and say, well, what do you think is the next step?”
Khan: Detroit 8th grade math proficiency fell from 6% to 3% post-pandemic
“You know, people have looked at the NAEP results, and I think it was Detroit had three percent of kids, and I think they were eighth graders who were proficient in math, three percent. It's like, wow, the pandemic was pretty bad. Well, before the pandemic was …”