Khan Academy Best Practices for Social Studies

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- Hi everyone, this is Jeremy
Schifeling at Khan Academy.

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Thanks so much for joining us

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this afternoon, or this evening.

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We're thrilled to have
you online with Erin Hill,

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an awesome social studies
educator, AP expert,

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and general Khan Academy guru.

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As you probably know at
this point Erin is one

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of our Khan Academy ambassadors,

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which means she's used
Khan Academy even before

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this crisis started for years and years.

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So she knows the product inside and out.

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And she can give you particular expertise

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about how Khan is used in
the social studies setting.

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As you probably also recall
if you joined other webinars

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we want to make these sessions
as interactive as possible,

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so if you've got questions for Erin

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about anything that pertains
to the site, or even beyond,

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you can ask those via
the questions feature

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right in the GoToWebinar control panel.

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So that being said, before
we get to the questions,

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I'd love to get to know you better, Erin.

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So tell us a little bit about
your own educational journey,

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and what's brought you to this moment.

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- My educational journey started with

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a background in history.

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My degree is is history,
and I have a credential

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in social science.

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And I was fortunate to
start teaching 24 years ago

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specifically in middle
school where I taught

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both English and history.

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So I was able to find
the constant crossovers

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between the two subjects.

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And I came to Long Beach 20 years ago.

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I was very happy to
come down to Long Beach

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and teach both English and social studies.

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And again, very fortunate
to where I taught

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both AP English language
and AP US history.

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So I saw AP from different sides.

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But I also taught general history,

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general English and also honors history.

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So a little bit of background on that,

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and then currently I am the AP coordinator

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at Millikan High School in Long Beach.

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- Very cool.

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That's such a perfect background,

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because I know there are lots of questions

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not just about social studies,

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but about AP, and I believe you

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also have some SAT experience

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- Yes.
- for folks who are curious

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on what's happening with that
right now in this moment.

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Again, totally, lots of great expertise

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on display here, folks.

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If you want to talk
social studies, AP, SAT,

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you've come to the right place.

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- Fortunately, one of the great things

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the way I was introduced to
Khan Academy was through SAT.

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Because we were told by
our district superintendent

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Chris Steinhauser, we
have this new vehicle

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that we want teachers to start trying out

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in their classroom, it's Khan Academy.

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They have this wonderful
relationship with College Board

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to help prep for the SAT.

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A small group just started running with it

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and expanded it from there,

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and saw all the wonderful
potential for students

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in and out of the classroom.

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- That's awesome.

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So in addition to sort
of using Khan Academy

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as this free SAT tool preparation tool,

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what other sort of Khan
Academy pieces of content

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or courses that you
either use or recommend

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that teachers in your school use?

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- Well, the teachers at
our school at Millikan

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and throughout Long Beach
have utilized Khan Academy

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for various levels of math,

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for English, for the different
subjects within science.

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We even have some of our
PE teachers using some

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of the health links within Khan Academy.

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We have our computer courses
utilizing Khan Academy

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specifically for some of the coding,

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and AP computer science principles.

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We have some of our business
teachers utilizing some

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of the finance and marketing
connections with Khan Academy.

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So across the board is
really how Millikan,

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and also Long Beach by extension

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is using Khan Academy in the classroom.

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- Very cool, I can tell
that Long Beach Unified

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is definitely a Khan power user district.

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- It very much is.

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It was not just because it
came from the top down where

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it was introduced to us

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by again, Superintendent Steinhauser.

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But once the teachers
started trying Khan Academy

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and seeing what was available to them,

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they started thinking
about the possibilities

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of how it could enhance,
not just their lessons,

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but also make some deeper connections

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for the content with their students.

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- Very cool.

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And so now, let's sort of
fast forward a little bit

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to the current moment
that we find ourselves in.

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And imagine you're an
AP US history teacher,

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or world history teacher,
you were doing great

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getting ready for the big
exam in the spring time,

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and then all of a sudden this happens.

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- Yeah.

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- If you were totally
brand new to Khan Academy,

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and just coming to this
webinar for the first time,

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what kind of initial steps
would you recommend that

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a teacher in those shoes takes

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to really get started with this platform,

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or potentially use it
to serve their students?

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- The first thing that I would recommend

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any teacher starting with

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is exploring what's
available on Khan Academy.

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Just because they might
be teaching AP US history

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doesn't mean that the
questions, or the content,

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or the documents within the
US history content wouldn't

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be beneficial to them,

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or different aspects under government.

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Because again, there's a lot of crossover

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with regard to the content.

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Exploring what's available,
what are they already doing

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and see what can supplement

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what they're already
doing in the classroom.

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Because one of the great
things about Khan Academy

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in particular, is it's
not replacing the teacher,

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it's not replacing the content.

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It is again, as I said earlier, enhancing

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what's already happening.

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It's allowing students
to look at something from

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a different perspective,
and already build upon

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their prior knowledge,
or connections they have

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with a particular subject.

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Whether it is colonialism,
or The Great Depression

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Or the Guilded Age, there's
different aspects within it,

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Whether it's a video,
whether it is a document,

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whether it is multiple choice questions.

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So they're looking at the
content from different lenses,

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and they're able to see
what parts they understand,

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and get that reinforcement of,

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oh I know exactly what this is saying.

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Or look at maybe the
idea of Social Darwinism,

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or the Guilded Age which
was a very important area

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within US history.

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And what are those connections,

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not just within that time period,

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but also making connections
as the content moves forward

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into the different decades?

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- Very cool, and so
you've talked about this

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sort of holy trinity, so
to speak of the videos,

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the articles, the exercises.

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If a teacher is starting
to explore them and say,

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"Hey this is pretty good content,

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"this is pretty well in
line with our standards,"

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how would you go about
sort of incorporating that

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into your existing practice,

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or even your new practice
of doing remote teaching?

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- It depends on what the
lesson is going to entail.

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If I am going to be looking,

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having my students analyze
different perspectives

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I might look at the different documents

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that are available within a unit.

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And I can do a modified,
maybe gallery walk,

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or a modified jigsaw where
I can split my students

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into smaller groups,

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or even assign individuals
certain documents.

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And as we go into a
group discussion whether

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it is through a webcast or an audio cast,

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have the students discuss what they have.

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But also have the students
upload the document

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to maybe a Google Classroom,

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or to the classroom locker,

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so that the other students can see

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the annotation and the
document at the same time.

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And it becomes a larger
learning experience where

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the student isn't just learning from me,

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they're also learning
from the other students

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at the same time.

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- I love that, so really
sort of empowering

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the students, sort of
direct their own learning,

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get their hands dirty with history--

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- Absolutely, absolutely.

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- Instead of sort of passive recipients.

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- Yes, oh one of the
things about Khan Academy

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that I've appreciated
the most over the years

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is the fact that it does lend itself

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so easily to student
engagement and interaction.

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And it allows them to see
where they are in the moment,

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but also what they can do to move forward,

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and to continue to build their knowledge

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and understanding of a concept.

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- So we can definitely go into more depth

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as far as executing how
do you give an assignment,

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or how do you give out an
exercise if folks want.

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They can definitely let us know through

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the questions feature.

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But let's actually move
towards the AP content.

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So as all the AP teachers out there know,

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AP is going to this new
online testing format

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for this spring.

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- Yes.

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- Any recommendations about how

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they can think about preparing for that,

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whether it involves using
Khan Academy or not?

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- I think that because
a lot of the students

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and teachers might be
uncertain of exactly what

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is gonna be happening moving forward,

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even though the College Board has said,

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here's what we're gonna be
focusing on for different areas.

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For example, in AP US
history, and AP world

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and AP Euro, they will be giving
a document based question.

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Well, Khan Academy has
a lot of documents that

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are embedded into each
of those subject areas,

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again whether it's documents themselves,

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or multiple choice or
even aspects of the video.

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So a teacher can look
at the different units

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that the College Board will be covering,

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because it's a short time frame

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with which they're basing
a document based question.

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They can really hone in
on what their students

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maybe need a little bit more review on,

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and then find those
documents that best fit

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a particular era.

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Or if I'm looking at
world history I might want

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to look at the documents
specifically for civilizations

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that do a comparison of civilizations,

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or changes over time,

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which are common themes within history.

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- Wonderful.

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And then finally for the
sort of SAT question,

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before I move to questions
from the audience.

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I know that may be the most
difficult to solve given

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that basically it looks like a very sort

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of bleak future in the short term

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as far as testing dates go.

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Any advice that you're giving to teachers,

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or to students who are
trying to figure out,

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hey how do I get my students prepared

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for whatever the future entails?

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- Every time that I talk
to a student about the SAT

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it's really connecting them,

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linking their College Board
and their Khan Academy account.

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But not just saying we're
linking them together,

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actually going in to their
College Board account

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to look at their last score report.

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Whether it was from a prior PSAT,

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or the first time they took the SAT.

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And they can actually look
at question by question

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from the PSAT, unfortunately,

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they don't do that for the SAT,

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'cause it's a more secure document.

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But for the PSAT they can
look at the actual questions.

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But one of the things that I purposely do

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is you can look at the
category of each question.

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Whether it is words in context,

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or the social studies, or the science

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whatever it happens to be.

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Then the student
themselves empowering them,

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as Khan Academy often does,

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empowering the student to look at what

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are their own areas of need?

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Because even though
Khan Academy gives them

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a look at where their
current skills levels are,

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having the students look
at their SAT score report

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question by question,
looking for patterns.

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What are their top three areas of need?

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Then they go to their
Khan Academy SAT areas.

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Whether it's the reading
or writing, or the math.

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And now they have what are
their three areas of need?

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Instead of more pass, I mean, you know,

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the recommended questions are
wonderful, and I love those.

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But giving the students the
chance to really choose,

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looking at what their scores are,

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and knowing inside themselves

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what they really need to focus on.

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Then they can go through the SAT practice,

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and become really down into the detail

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of where their areas of need are.

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- Cool, I love that theme of
sort of giving students agency

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during this tough time.

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Because if ever there was
a moment when we need them

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to get involved in their
own learning that was it.

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- Absolutely, and one of the things is,

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even the students will get
a printed score report,

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it doesn't give as much detail
as the online score report.

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And that's really where the power comes in

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of not just the College Board link,

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but also the Khan Academy connection.

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- Cool, I think this a perfect moment

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to switch over to some
questions from the audience.

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Renee is saying, hello from Jamesburg.

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Hello Renee, thanks

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for joining us today.
- Hello, Jamesburg.

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- Let's start with a
great question from Joe.

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And this is like a really,

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a really juicy question right now.

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- Okay.
- Which is how would

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you recommend incorporating
project based learning

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with what we're talking
about here with Khan Academy?

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Is there some kind of
connection you can make,

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especially given the sort
of difficult circumstances

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we find ourselves in?

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- I would, and this is
a great piece of advice

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from one of the curriculum
leaders in Long Beach,

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Nat who's also very
familiar with Khan Academy

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and has worked with it often.

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Looking at projects and
this new online learning

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as a field trip.

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What is this new exploration
that the students

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are gonna get from this?

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Because you want to give the students

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that sense of connectedness,

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but also give them that
sense of what is it

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that we're gonna explore?

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What is that question that
we're gonna be discovering?

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What is that essential question?

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What is that mystery that
we're going to be solving?

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And, if you're looking
at a project depending

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kind of on what it is,

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you can almost use it as,

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within a unit in Khan Academy.

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And I'm thinking social
studies in particular.

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You can have the students

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use the documents, use the
questions, use the video

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to create their own lesson.

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And it could be like a one-pager
where they have created

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what is an overview,

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in my mind right now, the Guilded Age?

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What is an aspect of the Guilded Age?

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Or what is, give me a
one-pager about the muckrakers

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during the progressive era.

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And what are some of the
images that would best work?

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What are some of those quotes?

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What are some of those dates and details?

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If I were to use this as a
study guide for other students,

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what would that look like?

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What, as a teacher can
do, is they can create

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a locker within their classrooms

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of the different student work.

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And now it becomes a
resource not just for them,

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but for the other students.

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So I was thinking more project
based of individual students

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to help other students
prepare for an exam,

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or to enrich their learning.

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Or, because technology is so advanced,

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using may be a Google Doc, or Google Form,

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Google Sheet, whatever that happens to be.

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And you can have collaboration
within a project,

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whether that's slides,
or some other vehicle

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to get the ideas across.

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So project based learning
I don't think should

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be shied away from.
- Yeah.

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- I think that, like anything,
it just can't be thrown

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at the student, good luck,
we'll see you in a month.

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There have to be, it would have

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to be broken into smaller pieces.

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And in some cases maybe
allowing the students

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to decide what that final
product may look like,

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but here are their parameters that

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the teacher has set for them.

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And what aspects of Khan
Academy they would want

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to incorporate into it.

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- So cool, I was just imagining
like an amazing project

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around, you know pick a
era of American history

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that's parallel to today.

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- Right.
- Whether it's the

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Guilded Age, or the Spanish Flu of 1918,

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and pull together the similarities
and the dissimilarities.

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- Yeah absolutely, the
continuities and changes over time,

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which is absolutely key in social studies.

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- Yeah, love it okay,

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so let's take a step backwards, actually.

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Katherine wanted to take you
up on that offer of saying,

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"Okay, I am literally just getting started

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"with Khan Academy.

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(Erin laughs)

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"How do I even set up my class?

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"Can I link it to Google Classroom?"

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What are those steps?
- Yes.

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So one of the things that
Khan Academy done for teachers

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is there's actually a section,

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when you create your Khan Academy account,

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is you click on resources.

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And it will give you, it's
how do teachers get started

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from simply as how do
you create an account,

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to how do you set up your class?

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What are the courses within that class

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that you want to create?

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Do you want to connect
it to Google Classroom?

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What are the parameters
for setting an assignment?

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What are the class or
classes that you want

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to give an assignment to?

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So, the way the teacher can get started

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is honestly watching the short videos

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on how to get started.

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If you're not quite as
ready to just go click,

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what I call click happy,
and just see how things go.

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And one of the things that
Khan Academy also does

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with many of their videos,

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is they also give text instructions.

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So it's helping a teacher
however they are comfortable

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with setting something up
to set up the classroom

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that's gonna best meet their needs.

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So for example, some of the teachers

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will have multiple courses
underneath one course.

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As I said before, AP US history might also

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add US Government, AP
government, and also US history

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as aspects of their class,

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just because they might
want to do smaller,

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different assignments of
the different courses.

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So I appreciate the fact
that when you're adding

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a class and adding courses,

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that Khan Academy gives you the list

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of different courses available.

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And it's not limited to
one area in particular.

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That it does allow for whatever

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support your students may need

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within that particular course,

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or if they need foundational support.

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It's also there for them too.

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And thank you for showing
that on your screen,

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inviting to the Google
Classroom which is so effective.

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Not just to our prior to
our current situation,

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but even more so today,
because that is one of the ways

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that so many students are able

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to more easily get their information.

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And it also houses things in one place,

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so you're not having the students go

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to five different sites to
find their one assignment.

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Once a teacher set up their classroom

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and they can give an assignment,

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they can set the
parameters of when that is.

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And I like the fact that Khan Academy has

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set up the student homepage

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to be extremely user
friendly and intuitive.

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So the students don't
have to constantly search

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for what assignment is due.

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And thank you for bringing
out the A student page,

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so we're looking at that.

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So what are the current assignments that

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the students need to be thinking about.

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But also, if there's students who may

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have missed a deadline,

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they can click on past and
go to the past assignments.

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And I like the fact that it has the status

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of that assignment in there.

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For multiple choice or
quizzes, things like that

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it does give the percentage.

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And some teachers do allow their students

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to redo or retake quizzes

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to reach a certain
percentage, which is nice.

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And then on the left hand side of the page

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it will have the list of courses,
and all of their classes.

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So again, everything's in
one place for the student

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and it's extremely user friendly.

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- Very cool, and just to
sort of add that final answer

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to Katherine's question, Google Classroom

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is basically syncing
up your existing roster

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with Khan Academy to save you
all the pain and suffering

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of finding rosters in a
remote learning environment.

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- And it makes it so much easier.

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Not just for the teacher,
but also for the student.

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Because as hesitant as we are
to use technology as teachers

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the students, if they're
not instantly hooked

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in to what that technology is they're not

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gonna want to use it.

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And so having those
resources readily available,

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seeing what their classes are,

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knowing what active and
past means immediately helps

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the students understand how this resource

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is going to help them.

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- Very cool.

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So going back to this
idea of doing comparison

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in the social studies context,

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we had a really interesting
question from Daryl.

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Daryl says, "My class and I are working on

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"the second Industrial Revolution.

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"Is there some way to allow us

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to attach two different readings,

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"or videos, or activities,
those students can compare

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"those two different topics side-by-side."

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For example, US Industrial
Revolution compared

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to British Industrial Revolution.

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If I want them to think
of two things at once

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how do I do that?

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- Absolutely, and so under assignments,

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this is where it's really great that you

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can have more than one course

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within your Khan Academy classroom.

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So you can look at the
resources in US history,

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or AP US history under industrialization,

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and then look at world history
under industrialization.

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And really pick and
choose which assignments

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or which documents within
each of those courses,

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so they can be side-by-side.

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And in assignments you
would want to make sure

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that you kind of have the
same date and parameters,

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so that the students
know they're connected,

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and within the Google Classroom.

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Or, if there's another
platform that you use

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to give assignments,

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you can be more specific
with the instructions

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on how the students are to
connect those specific documents.

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- Okay cool, definitely make
multiple assignments at once.

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- Yes.
- Get their students

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on their way.

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Let's see here, so another
really important question

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is coming in from Bea Richards.

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Bea says, "Can teachers be notified when

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"a student completes an assignment?"

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'Cause that way, 'cause
we're all busy trying

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to scramble and make this all work.

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(Erin laughs)

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How do we keep track of
what student's are doing?

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- Over the years Khan Academy has done

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a really great job about asking teachers,

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looking at the Khan Academy gradebook.

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And how the gradebook can be
formatted to best parallel

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what their current gradebook
already looks like.

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So they're looking at assignments.

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And thank you for bringing that up.

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And it tells you what
kind of assignment it is.

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Just as the students are
seeing these different symbols

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within their Khan Academy,

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the teacher is also
seeing the same symbols

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in their gradebook.

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So there's a similarity,

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which makes it much more user
friendly and re-memorable.

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Whether it's a document, or
a video or multiple choice.

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And then they've color coded it.

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So green obviously
you've met the threshold

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of the minimum standard of percentage.

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Orange we're kind of, we
may have missed a few ideas.

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And then red, this is an opportunity that

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the student may want to
revisit, or as a teacher,

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this is where you would
really want a student,

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a chance to create those mini
lessons of reinforcement.

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And review a special, if you're noticing

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in your class book for
that particular assignment.

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There may be several students who may not

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have understood a concept
within that in particular.

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So as you're looking at
the assignment scores

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you can clearly see who has
done it, and who has not.

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But then, if you click
into a specific assignment,

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so if you can click, perfect.

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- I apologize these are math examples,

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but you get some idea--
- That's okay,

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it's the same idea, so don't
be scared 'cause it's math.

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One of the things is
Khan Academy really does

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a deep dive into, not
just the overall score

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for a student or that class,

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but what it was like for
each individual question.

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And so it's no longer a guessing game

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for the teacher or the student

00:25:04.150 --> 00:25:07.110
on what they understood
or what they didn't,

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and what needs to be
reviewed or reinforced.

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So if I have you know,
five students in my class,

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I'm gonna say five students,

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because I'm being I'm being
completely unrealistic there.

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- Five problems, yeah.

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- (laughs) I only have
five students in my world.

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And three of them have
missed the same question.

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I can see that instantly in Khan Academy.

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And that allows me to go
back to that question.

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And if I'm doing say a webinar,

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and I'm showing my screen in Khan Academy,

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I can actually use that question

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and project on my screen.

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And the class and I can actually go over

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that question again.

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Not say, "Oh we've all missed this,"

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but, "Hey let's take a look at this again.

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"What is the question truly asking?

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"Okay, now let's look at
the process of elimination.

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"Why do we think this would
or would not be the answer?

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"Let's talk about that,
let's come to consensus."

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And then if I wanted to I can actually

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use another question or an assignment,

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and I can have the students
do another multiple choice.

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Or I can, you know,
project what that answer is

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and why that's the correct answer.

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So again, using the, I love
the instant data aspect

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of Khan Academy, because it
is so powerful for students.

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But having the students look at a question

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not just one time, but multiple times,

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I think also helps reinforce.

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And then it also, if you know going back

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to the original question,
what if a student

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doesn't do an assignment?

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If you notice the student
doesn't do the assignment,

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but it also happens to be
a question where an area

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where a lot of students
need extra support,

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that can then bring the student back into

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the conversation, not have
them feel completely left out.

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Or I didn't do the assignment,

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therefore I can't participate.

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So finding ways to use the data as a way

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to get that interaction with
students and reinforcement.

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- I love that, it really
comes back to what you said

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at the very beginning.

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Khan Academy is not replacing the teacher,

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it's a tool to complement
the teacher's strengths

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and expertise, and you
apply it judiciously.

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One last question, this is a
really important one from Pete.

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Pete says, "You know even in this world

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"of trying to get everyone online,

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"make remote learning
work overnight basically,

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"we still need to keep in
mind differentiate education.

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"Serving every student where they are.

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"How can we do that in
this new digital world

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"using a tool like Khan?"

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- I'm gonna go back to Khan Academy

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and their relationship with
the College Board and SAT.

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Where the practice is
based specifically on

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the individual student score report.

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So that becomes
differentiated right there.

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So if I'm a teacher and
I'm having my students,

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and by the way, every
subject is an SAT subject.

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It's not just strictly
a English or a math,

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it is every subject is SAT,

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because every subject has reading,

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every subject has analysis.

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So you can use it in many different ways.

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Going on that, I can have a student,

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I can have my students go
to a specific practice,

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and it's already set up for where they are

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in their skill level within the SAT.

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And so it's not leaving anybody behind.

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It's not assuming that
everybody knows everything,

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or everybody is at the same level,

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because that's unrealistic
in any classroom.

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When I'm looking at the lessons,

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one of the things that I can do

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is I can look at the lessons and go okay.

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I'm gonna have the students maybe do

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a little bit of a practice
question beforehand.

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Then I can look at the results.

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And then I can differentiate
a lesson from there.

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Whether it's reinforcement with a video,

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whether it's reinforcement
with a document,

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because we've done some multiple choice

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and here's a document that compliments it.

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Or I can look at some of the key questions

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that may have been a
little more difficult.

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And then I can break it
down a little bit more,

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so I am differentiating for students

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who may have difficulty understanding what

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a question is asking.

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Or, having difficulty with a
concept within the question.

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So many times I've taken a
multiple choice question,

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and I've projected it on
my screen in my classroom.

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Or my whiteboard actually,

00:29:31.870 --> 00:29:34.026
because it's a little
bit more interactive.

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- Or you can take a green screen

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(Jeremy drowned out)
- Yeah, I will literally

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project it onto my whiteboard.

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And we'll start writing all over it.

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And I will have the
students working in groups.

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And one group will come
up and they'll do that.

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But in, you know, because we
have this now distance learning

00:29:51.900 --> 00:29:53.950
having the students do
that in their own way.

00:29:53.950 --> 00:29:56.483
And there are some platforms
that do allow that.

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But if we're on a webcam,
it's a piece paper

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and a pen or pencil.

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That can be our technology
on how to differentiate.

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And one of the things
that a teacher can do

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is by the results that students give,

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whether it's on the piece of paper,

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or the multiple choice or the document,

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the teacher can start differentiating

00:30:16.940 --> 00:30:19.620
a little bit from there and scaffold some

00:30:19.620 --> 00:30:21.300
of the skills that they see need

00:30:21.300 --> 00:30:25.490
a little bit more reinforcement
throughout that lesson.

00:30:25.490 --> 00:30:27.840
- Very cool, and so just
to sort of illustrate

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that point here, if you
realize that someone

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is weak in a certain core area,

00:30:31.480 --> 00:30:33.710
especially with the AP exam approaching,

00:30:33.710 --> 00:30:36.430
you can always assign that
not to the entire class,

00:30:36.430 --> 00:30:37.667
but just to the students
- To specific students.

00:30:37.667 --> 00:30:40.270
- who need it the most.
- Exactly.

00:30:40.270 --> 00:30:41.960
- Okay I know we're a
little bit over time.

00:30:41.960 --> 00:30:44.030
So do you want to end
with one final question,

00:30:44.030 --> 00:30:45.750
which is just, you know folks didn't

00:30:45.750 --> 00:30:48.379
get their answered today,
or your amazing expertise

00:30:48.379 --> 00:30:49.840
has opened up new questions they

00:30:49.840 --> 00:30:51.440
didn't realize they had before.

00:30:51.440 --> 00:30:53.530
Where would you recommend
they go for support

00:30:53.530 --> 00:30:56.500
based on your experience
with Khan Academy?

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- One of the things that I found

00:30:59.000 --> 00:31:01.520
is looking at that resource page.

00:31:01.520 --> 00:31:04.210
Because it gives ideas not
just how to set the classroom,

00:31:04.210 --> 00:31:08.480
but different ideas on how
to look at Khan Academy

00:31:08.480 --> 00:31:12.790
for differentiation, for
whole class practice,

00:31:12.790 --> 00:31:16.610
for looking at remediation, and so forth.

00:31:16.610 --> 00:31:20.970
That resource page is,
it's really phenomenal

00:31:20.970 --> 00:31:23.810
because it does empower the teacher,

00:31:23.810 --> 00:31:26.620
which in turn empowers students.

00:31:26.620 --> 00:31:29.910
And the big thing with Khan Academy is

00:31:29.910 --> 00:31:33.460
if you want to jump right
into it, great, start small.

00:31:33.460 --> 00:31:36.030
You don't have to do
everything on Khan Academy

00:31:36.030 --> 00:31:38.357
at the same time, because
would be overwhelming (laughs)

00:31:38.357 --> 00:31:41.440
and the students, pick one thing.

00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:43.780
Start with one thing,
get comfortable with that

00:31:43.780 --> 00:31:45.330
and then add one more thing.

00:31:45.330 --> 00:31:47.220
Maybe try one thing a week.

00:31:47.220 --> 00:31:48.870
This week we're gonna try multiple choice,

00:31:48.870 --> 00:31:51.000
let's see how that goes, okay.

00:31:51.000 --> 00:31:53.010
So now we've done our
multiple choice, okay,

00:31:53.010 --> 00:31:54.840
how can we do some
differentiation with that?

00:31:54.840 --> 00:31:57.190
Okay, next week let's take
a look at some documents.

00:31:57.190 --> 00:31:58.800
Next week let's take a look at how we

00:31:58.800 --> 00:32:01.730
can incorporate a video and start maybe

00:32:01.730 --> 00:32:05.020
a Socratic seminar based on
that particular document.

00:32:05.020 --> 00:32:08.180
Start small, get comfortable
and build up from there,

00:32:08.180 --> 00:32:10.710
and you're gonna find that the more you

00:32:10.710 --> 00:32:12.511
get comfortable with it,
the more you get excited

00:32:12.511 --> 00:32:16.530
about how to bring in more
aspects of Khan Academy

00:32:16.530 --> 00:32:18.800
that you hadn't even thought of before.

00:32:18.800 --> 00:32:20.360
- Very cool, it's so parallel

00:32:20.360 --> 00:32:21.900
to how our students learn, right?

00:32:21.900 --> 00:32:24.150
They have to have that solid foundation

00:32:24.150 --> 00:32:25.210
before they can even extend it

00:32:25.210 --> 00:32:26.770
into even more incredible applications.

00:32:26.770 --> 00:32:27.603
- Right.
- And the same is true

00:32:27.603 --> 00:32:28.560
for us as educators.

00:32:28.560 --> 00:32:29.980
- Absolutely.

00:32:29.980 --> 00:32:32.840
- Cool, well Erin, on behalf
of the entire audience

00:32:32.840 --> 00:32:34.160
I want to thank you so much for sharing

00:32:34.160 --> 00:32:35.660
your expertise today.

00:32:35.660 --> 00:32:37.770
I think you've given us so
many tools and resources

00:32:37.770 --> 00:32:39.220
during a very tough time.

00:32:39.220 --> 00:32:42.490
And for that we really
appreciate all your generosity.

00:32:42.490 --> 00:32:43.323
- Thank you so much for having me,

00:32:43.323 --> 00:32:44.680
I really appreciate it.

00:32:44.680 --> 00:32:48.580
And, thank you all for
being willing to take

00:32:48.580 --> 00:32:52.553
on Khan Academy, because
it is really exciting.

00:32:53.430 --> 00:32:58.250
I was fortunate to were I've
seen Khan Academy progress

00:32:58.250 --> 00:33:01.440
over the years to helps
students, but also teachers.

00:33:01.440 --> 00:33:04.790
And Khan Academy continues
to do that all the time.

00:33:04.790 --> 00:33:06.290
They're bringing out new curriculum,

00:33:06.290 --> 00:33:07.450
they're bringing out new resources

00:33:07.450 --> 00:33:08.750
for teachers and students.

00:33:09.886 --> 00:33:12.230
It's a really exciting time to see

00:33:12.230 --> 00:33:14.420
what's gonna happen
next with Khan Academy.

00:33:14.420 --> 00:33:16.620
- Very cool, well thanks
everyone for joining us,

00:33:16.620 --> 00:33:18.140
investing in the session today.

00:33:18.140 --> 00:33:19.350
Thank you again, Erin.

00:33:19.350 --> 00:33:20.520
- Thank you.
- Wish you all a good evening

00:33:20.520 --> 00:33:22.173
or good night.
- Have a good evening.