Get a Tour of the Student Experience on Khan Academy

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

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I'm joined by our amazing leader of

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professional learning, Meaghan Pattani.

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Meaghan has a real treat
in store for you today,

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because she's gonna walk you through,

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not the educator experience that

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you're used to on the site,
but the student experience.

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So, you can see exactly what
your students are seeing,

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and deliver them an
awesome experience with all

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the remote learning challenges
we all have at this moment.

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So that being said,

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Meaghan is gonna start to share
with you what it looks like

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through the lens of a
student using Khan Academy,

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and then in true webinar fashion,

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if you have any questions whatsoever,

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you can ask those at any time
using the questions feature,

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and we'll take those both throughout,

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and then also at the end.

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So that being said,

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thank you so much for joining us today,

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and I'll turn it over to Meaghan.

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- Thanks so much, Jeremy.

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So, we're gonna jump right
in, and just a quick note of

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what we will and will not cover today.

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We're gonna cover the student experience,

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and I know a lot of teachers and

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parents have a lot of
questions about this.

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We're gonna walk through
the student experience on

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Khan Academy to help you as parents,

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or teachers, better understand what

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your students and or
children are learning.

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But, we will not cover today

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the teacher and parent experiences.

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We have some of the resources

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about parent teacher experience,

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and if you'd like to take a look at those,

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definitely reach out to
our keep learning site,

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keeplearning@khanacademy.org,

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and there you'll have more information

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about parent and teacher experiences.

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That being said, I'm gonna jump
right into our live product.

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Here's how we're gonna start.

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Once students login to Khan Academy,

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so if they have an existing account,

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either a personal account,

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or one they have through
their school or district,

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they log in here.

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If they need to create an account,

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they can do that pretty easily.

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They can use that same Google login

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they might have for school.

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Or, if they are under 13,

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you as a parent can help walk
them through that process.

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Once they're logged in,
they're gonna land here.

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This is what we call our learner home,

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and you might be asking
yourself, well who is a learner?

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We at Khan Academy view
everyone as a learner,

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and especially our students.

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This is where they're
gonna find everything else

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they need to access on Khan Academy.

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One trick we always like to
share with our students and

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teachers is that anywhere you
are on the Khan Academy site,

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by clicking that Khan
Academy logo at the top,

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they'll return right back
to this learner home.

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On this page, you'll see
a whole bunch of things.

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We're gonna start at the top,

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and then we'll work through the rest.

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On the left hand side here,
you'll see this little avatar,

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which students can update,
and you'll see their name,

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and their user name, and an
option here to add their bio.

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By clicking on this, students
can edit this information.

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Just one thing, I always like to call out

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to parents and to teachers,
is this basic information.

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The user name, the avatar,
and the bio information

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that students share is publicly available.

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So, just to be a little bit cautious

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about what they've put there.

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When they land on the learner home,

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they'll see if their
teacher has assigned them

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course mastery or assignments.

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They'll see those broken down

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by class on the left hand side,

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and so you can see on
my student account here,

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that on my period one Algebra one class,

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I have a course mastery
goal that you see here,

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and then I also have
assignments from my teacher.

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So, anything they'd need
from an individual class

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will be there on the left hand side.

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If they have courses that they'd
like to study on their own,

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under this next category of information

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where it says my stuff,
students will see courses.

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These are courses that the student

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has selected themselves to study.

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When students sign up for an account,

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they'll have the opportunity to pick

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which courses they'd like
to study on their own.

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We recommend things that they
might be studying in school,

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or things that just interest them.

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They can always edit those courses

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by clicking the blue button at the top.

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Below this, I also wanna
call out this SAT button.

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For students that might
be in the high school age,

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they have the opportunity to link their

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college board account with
their Khan Academy account.

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They can import existing
PSAT or SAT scores,

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and get personalized
recommendations across math,

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reading and writing, and essays.

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If students want to do that,

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or if they haven't taken it
yet, we also offer diagnostics.

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If they add SAT, again when
they set up their account,

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they have a button that offers
them to add SAT as a course.

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They'll be added this SAT tab,

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and they can practice
recommended exercises

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fit to their personalized results.

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If you scroll down a little bit further,

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in the my account area, one other thing

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I'd like to point out here,
is this button for teachers.

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If students click on teachers,

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this is where they're able to see

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any teachers they're
currently connected to.

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They can remove those teachers,

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and if they need to join a class,

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one of the easiest way for students

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to join a class is to
enter the class code.

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So, this is where your
students would go if

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they need to input a class
code to join your class.

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They would enter the class
code in the space here,

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and click join the class.

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Once they do that, your
name will appear in

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the right hand side as a teacher.

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So, if you're ever
concerned that the student

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is not connected to your class properly,

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have them go to this
tab, and have them check

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to make sure that you are in
fact connected as a teacher.

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One last thing on this
student learner home,

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is this profile.

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This shows students what
they've done on Khan Academy.

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It shows things like how many days

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have they completed work on Khan Academy.

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If they've worked on any computer

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programming projects, they find them here.

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How many energy points have they earned,

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and how many badges have they earned.

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So, all of these kind
of gamification pieces

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and tracking pieces can be found here.

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I'm gonna go back to this course
mastery on my learner home.

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This here is a course mastery goal

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that's given by my teacher.

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If you've assigned a course
mastery goal to your students,

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this is what they see when they log in.

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They'll see in this case,
that we've assigned an

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Algebra one goal to this student.

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It shows the course name,
when the goal is due,

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and how much progress they've
made on the overall course.

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By clicking on this,

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it takes me directly to the course page,

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so I've now gone from the learner home

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to the Algebra one course.

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Now, some students will navigate
to courses all on their own

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by clicking this courses
button in the top left.

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This shows you all the courses

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that are available across Khan Academy.

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However, if you've assigned
a course mastery goal,

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we do recommend that students log in,

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land on their learner home,

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and then click on that
bar to take them directly

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to the course of study
recommended for them.

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From this page, you'll be
able to see all the units,

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lessons,

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and even a course challenge
that assesses skills

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across the entire course
for this particular course.

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On the left hand side,
you'll see student progress.

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So, this is a overall
progress in the course,

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and then each of these
bars align to a unit.

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You'll see that the student
in this case has made

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quite a bit of progress
in Algebra foundations.

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About 93% of that unit is completed.

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Whereas the one right below it,

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solving equations and unique
qualities, is 64% mastered.

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From here, by clicking
on a unit or a lesson,

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students will jump into the lesson

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or unit in which they want to work.

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In this case, they'll be able to see

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each of the lessons within the unit,

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and the skills that are
contained within that unit.

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By hovering over any of
these individual skills,

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they'll see a sample of
what that skill looks like.

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We know that evaluating expressions

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with one variable doesn't always

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make a lot of sense to students,

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but if they can see a sample problem,

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then they have a better understanding

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of what they're asked to be working on.

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Along with this, you'll see that each

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of these little figures
has bars filled in.

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These are indicators of the
mastery level of that skill.

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The Khan Academy mastery system
has various skill levels.

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For students, each skill can
be placed at a different level.

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So, if they have not
attempted the skill yet,

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they'll be placed at no level,

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and all of the bars will be grayed out.

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If they've attempted the skill,

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but they've earned less than 70%

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while practicing that skill,

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they'll be marked as attempted.

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But again, none of the bars are filled in.

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If they earn more than 70%
correct from practicing

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a skill in isolation on an exercise,

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or correctly answer a question related

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to that skill on a quiz or a test,

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they'll get moved up to familiar.

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If they get 100% of the
questions correct from practicing

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the skill in isolation on an exercise,

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they'll be moved up to familiar,

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and you'll see two of these bars filled.

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In order to get to mastered,

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they need to show that they are competent

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in that skill in two different scenarios.

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They either need to complete
the exercise and get 100%,

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and then demonstrate understanding

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of that skill in a test
or a course challenge,

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so that it shows that they are proficient

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in that skill in both
isolation and in mixed review.

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Or, they have to answer that
question correctly twice

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on two separate unit tests,

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or twice on the course challenge.

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And, if students are confused at any time,

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just like I just did, they can
click on this question mark,

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and look at skill summary,

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and this appears in every
unit on Khan Academy,

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to understand how they need to,

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what they need to do in order
to move up or down levels.

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Now, on this unit page, you
can see each of these lessons.

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In general, you'll see that on

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the left hand side are opportunities

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for students to learn
or acquire new skills,

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where on the right hand side,

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are practice opportunities for students

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to demonstrate their
understanding of that skill.

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So, on the left hand side,

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students will find videos
and articles related

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to the skill they're asked
to practice on the right.

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As you move down this unit
page, you'll see a quiz.

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A quiz assesses all the skills
in the preceding lesson,

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and at the bottom of the
unit, you'll see a unit test,

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which assesses all the
skills across the unit.

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As you can see, in this unit,

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I completed much of the content.

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But you'll see that here,
where it says recommended,

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based on quiz two, I have a little star,

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and this is recommending
that I review this concept,

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and then try this skill again.

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Students will receive
individualized recommendation

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as they make progress through the content.

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While all of your
students, or your children,

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may be working on the
course independently,

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as they make progress on certain skills,

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while maybe attempting
and struggling on others,

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the program will recommend
to them specific activities

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in which to engage to make more progress.

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All right, so let's take a look here.

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If I were to jump into
one of these exercise.

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If I were to look at
this particular exercise

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on evaluating expressions
with one variable,

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I'll open up into this exercise window

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that says ready to practice.

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In this case I see seven questions,

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and it should take me
about seven to 11 minutes.

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Then I click let's go.

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I will now receive seven questions

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that are all on this same topic.

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Once the student inputs an answer,

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you'll see that they
get immediate feedback.

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In this case, where I've
input the incorrect answer,

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and it encourages me to try again,

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get help, or skip for now.

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This gives me an opportunity
to show you two ways students

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can get help while they're
working independently.

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Beneath every question, is a
question here that says stuck.

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In this case, by clicking on the blue link

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that says watch a video or get a hint,

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the student receives videos
that are specifically related

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to the skill they are attempting.

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Or, if they're really stuck,
they click get a hint,

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and it will walk them through this

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particular problem step by step,

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with the final hint being

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the correct answer to the question.

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One thing to note is that if
students watch the videos,

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and then come back and
attempt the question,

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they can still receive full credit.

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If they use the hint, the
question will get marked incorrect

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because the final step in the hint

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is the actual answer to the question.

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Again, here I go with
some instant feedback

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to keep up my persistence.

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If I go back to the main
page for this course,

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you'll see at the top here I have

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a banner that says mastery challenge.

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Along with the regular
assessments built into the course,

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every student will receive
mastery challenges after

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they've become familiar
in at least three skills.

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This mastery challenge
will highlight three skills

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the student has already practiced.

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These are skills specific to
that student's performance,

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and when they do this,
they're able to level up,

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or move to mastered in that
skill if they are successful.

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What's important about this
is that mastery challenges are

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personalized space repetition of skill.

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We know that spiraling skills helps

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to produce learning loss, and
improve knowledge retention.

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We strongly encourage students to engage

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in mastery challenges once
they become available.

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Mastery challenges will refresh
for students every 12 hours.

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Now I'm gonna jump back to
our learner home for a minute,

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and so this is great if I'm
working on course mastery,

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but we know many students are
using assignments as well.

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Again, for that same class,

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below course mastery I see assignments.

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By clicking on assignments, I can see all

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the current assignments
my teacher has given me.

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In this case, I have a couple of videos,

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indicated by these triangles,
and a couple of exercises.

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For each assignment, I can see the name,

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the class for which it's due,

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the due date and time,
and the current status.

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If I haven't attempted this activity yet,

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it'll appear as a start button.

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If I have, it'll show me
this current best score.

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In this case, because
I haven't reached 100%,

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it's encouraging me to try again.

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If the assignment is
a video or an article,

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instead of showing me
the try again button,

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it'll show me either
completed or incompleted.

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So, if I haven't started yet,

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I could click start and watch this video,

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and once I've finished it,
it'll show as completed.

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Now, these are all my current assignments.

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They're ordered for students

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with the most proximal
or soonest due date.

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In this case, you can see this
assignment is due on Monday,

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whereas this isn't due until Wednesday.

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Students know by clicking
at the thing at the top,

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that they're doing the
assignment that is due next.

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If they ever wanna go back
to look at past assignments,

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they can click the tab
for past on the top,

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and see all of their past assignments.

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Again, here you'll see completed videos,

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exercises, and in this case,

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something I haven't
completed that is now late.

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If I go back to active,

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these are my current assignments
again, and here's the name.

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By clicking on the name of the assignment,

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or the start button,

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I'm taken directly to that activity.

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So, instead of having to navigate
through the entire course,

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it takes me directly to the assignment

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that my teacher has given me,
and jumps into that exercise.

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Just like with course mastery,
it's the same exercises.

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I'll jump into the activity,
and receive the same

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personalized support and instant feedback.

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Last thing I wanna go over before

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we open this up to questions,

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is that from this student,
this learner home,

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on the left hand side, under my account,

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is a tab for progress, and
this is very similar to

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what parents and teachers can see.

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By clicking on progress, I can
see my progress as a student,

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and I can alter the time window,

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what type of content I'm looking at,

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and which type of activities.

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From here, I can see my time spent,

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and it's broken into two sections here.

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My 14 minutes indicate the amount

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of time I've spent on exercises.

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This is the amount of time students

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have spent actively
engaged with questions.

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45 minutes of total
learning time, which means,

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this is the total amount of time

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I've spent learning on Khan Academy.

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This doesn't include things
like time students spend

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changing their avatars,
or navigating around site.

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This is time they spent engaged

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with any sort of assessment, exercise,

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videos, articles, anything
that is active learning.

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Then below this, each of
the activities the student

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has engaged with, it shows
me what the activity was,

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when did I engage with it,
my current mastery level,

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whether that was up or down
in terms of mastery level.

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The total number of questions
I answered correctly

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out of the total number of problems

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in that exercise or quiz,

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and then the time spent on
that particular activity.

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In some cases, you'll
even see a little bar

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that says multiple skill changes.

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In that case, it means that
multiple skills were assessed,

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and the student had changes

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in levels across multiple skills.

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In that situation, by
students clicking on that,

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they'll be able to see the
same type of levels and changes

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across all the skills that
they used in that exercise.

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Now, we've gone through
a lot fairly quickly.

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When in doubt, if anything
seems unfamiliar to students,

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or they're ever concerned,

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they can always go to the help center.

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Here, by clicking on
the navigation button,

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again, students can jump
back to their learner home,

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alter their settings, or
in this case, get help.

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So, the last thing we
wanna call out is that

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if students are ever in need of help,

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by clicking on their own
name and selecting help,

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they'll be directly taken to
the Khan Academy help center.

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Here, they can look at
frequently asked questions,

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or report a problem, so
if they're having trouble

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with their account or finding things,

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they can always receive help
from our help center here.

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Now, I'm gonna stop here, and
we're gonna open it up to,

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we're gonna open it back up to questions.

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- All right, so first of all
Meaghan, thank you so much.

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This is an awesome tour de
force of a student experience,

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so thanks for laying it out so clearly.

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We've got a ton of questions.

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I'm gonna try to sort of go to

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the ones that I'm seeing
over and over again.

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- Sure.

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- To really make sure that we hit home.

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This is a questions from Yanna,

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but it's certainly asked by
a number of teachers as well.

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Which is, Khan has so much rich content,

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but a lot of it is in the text format.

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That can be tough for students

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who are struggling with reading ability.

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Is there any way for
students to engage with this

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and have those questions read aloud,

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as opposed to be forced
to read them themselves?

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- Yeah, I think that's a
question we do receive a lot,

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especially from our teachers
of younger students,

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or teachers who teach
English language learners.

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We do not offer an in-product
text to speech option,

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and I know we hear a lot of that.

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A couple of recommendations though,

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for those students that
may be having trouble,

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that may have additional
needs and things like that,

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we are enabled for screen readers.

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If the case is for students
with particular need

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that have learning challenges,

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where they might need that screen reader,

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we are adapted for that.

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I will highlight for our younger learners,

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our Khan Academy Kids app,

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which is designed for
learners two through seven,

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recently released a teacher tool set

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where teachers can assign things,

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and that does have a
text to speech option.

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If you have younger learners,

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that release on the teacher
tools just came this week.

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It's super exciting, so if
you have younger learners,

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I highly encourage you
to take a look at that.

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But, we do hear that,

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and it's great feedback
that we love to have.

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- Cool, and that's perfect,

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because we had a number
of early elementary

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and preschool teachers
who were saying hey,

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Khan Kids seems great,

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but it's not really teacher
friendly, and now it is.

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This is brand new information.

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We just linked to it in the chat section.

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- Yeah, brand new, the
features just became live

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in the app store in the last 48 hours.

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Teachers can now go
into Khan Academy Kids,

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it's really exciting,

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and they can see what students are doing.

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They can connect what they're
doing at home and in school,

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and make assignments within the app.

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Definitely check that out,
and please give us feedback,

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because we're learning
and growing on that.

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- Oh, and even if you have your own kids

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running around at home in that age range,

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feel free to use those
teacher tools to make sure

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that they're getting
assigned the right content.

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- Yes, absolutely.

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- Meaghan and I are
both in that same boat,

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so we're definitely thinking it.

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(laughing)

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Question from Jan.

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This is the question I've
been getting not just

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in the webinar, but in my email
for the last several weeks.

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My students are saying hey,

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I've been watching these videos,

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but then the teacher's not
seeing them getting checked off

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in that teacher dashboard on the backend.

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What could be causing
that disconnect between

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what the student says is happening,

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and what the teacher is seeing?

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- Couple of things.

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So, number one, students
only get credit for watching

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a video if they watched
at least 90% of the video,

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and they watch it no faster
than two times regular speed.

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So, if students are
putting it on fast forward,

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or you know, if students are
only watching half the video,

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they're not gonna get credit for that.

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They have to actually watch the video.

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The other thing is, if students just put

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the video on and forget about it,

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Khan Academy won't give
them credit if it times out.

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So, if they just left it
on and forgot about it,

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or left it on and then went

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to do something in the other room,

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which not that our students
would ever do that,

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but we do see that happen.

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So, they have to make sure

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that they are engaged with
that and not just ignoring it.

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That's one set of things that can happen.

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The other case that we
strongly encourage is that,

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a lot of students have both a
personal and a school account,

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and it is most likely the school account

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is the one attached to the teacher.

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I would go back and verify
with your student that they are

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logged in to the account
that's attached to your class.

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They can check on that
learner home whether or not

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it's their personal or if
it's their school account.

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Just by looking at the left hand column

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and seeing if their classes are there,

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or checking that teacher's tab.

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I would double check that they
are logged in to the class,

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and I would double check
that they are watching

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the video actively in its entirety.

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- Oh, great advice.

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And then, going back
to the very beginning,

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and this is the last
question we have time for.

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- Sure.

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- You know, we've been talking a lot

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in the last several weeks about,

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how do you motivate and engage students?

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It's hard enough even when
they're in your classroom,

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and now when you're
teaching them from afar,

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it's even more difficult.

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Casey and Brie asked respectively,

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what were those energy
points that you referenced at

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the beginning, and how
do students earn badges?

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- You bet, really great question.

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Khan Academy has some really great

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gamification features built into it.

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When students engage with any activity,

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even if they're getting
questions incorrect,

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they earn energy points,
because we really want

00:25:07.617 --> 00:25:11.155
to recognize that effort
and that persistence.

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The more successful, more
repetitive they become

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in those good behaviors, the
more energy points they earn.

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Those energy points allow
them to do things like upgrade

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that avatar that we saw on the
top left of the learner home.

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The badges come from, you
know, certain behaviors earning

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certain amounts of energy points,

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answering 10 or 15 questions on

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the same topic correctly in a row,

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or watching 15 minutes of
video on a singular topic,

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showing that they're really
trying to understand concepts.

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Or, completing challenges,
so if they complete

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certain challenges within the product.

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Those badges and energy
points are deeply connected

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and are meant to engage
and gamify a little bit

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to keep students motivated
while they're learning.

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- Very cool, and then finally,

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I know we have to go in a second,

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but for those who wanna have
their questions answered

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even beyond the context of this webinar,

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what other resources are out there

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so they can get the support
they need when they need it?

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- A couple of things to recommend.

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From a teacher perspective,
we have a great set

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of teacher resources right
on our Khan Academy site.

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When you log in as a teacher,

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you'll see three tabs on the top,

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and one of them is resources,
so check that out for sure.

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We have a keep learning microsite,

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specifically designed to support

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remote teaching and learning right now.

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I would check that out.

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There's all sorts of
great stuff for students,

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for parents, for teachers.

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Everything from daily
schedules to motivation tips.

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I would start with those two,

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and then if you have other
questions or concerns,

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definitely contact our help center.

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They are really incredible,
and even during this really

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high demand time for Khan Academy,

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they're usually good about getting back

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to you all in a matter of hours,

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because it's really important
that we know that our users,

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especially in a time of high need,

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we're here for you and whatever
questions you might have.

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- Cool, well I've included those links,

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so everyone can feel
free to click into those.

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That being said, you will get
a recording of this webinar.

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So, if you wanna go back and look at

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any particular part of
what Meaghan shared,

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you can do that at your own pace.

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You can also shared that
with fellow educators

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and even parents, if you
wanna help them sort of

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get up to speed with this experience.

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Anything else you'd
recommend there Meaghan?

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- One other thing.

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I went through this I know
pretty quickly in a live demo,

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so I've included a handout
with this webinar as well,

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which is just a set of
slides that walk through

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the screens we went through
today with a little bit of text.

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If you'd like a little bit more time

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to digest everything we went through,

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that's available for you there as well.

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- Cool, well on behalf of Meaghan

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and the whole Khan Academy team,

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we wanna thank you all for making time out

00:27:48.500 --> 00:27:50.790
of your busy afternoon to join us.

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We wish you well in this
really difficult endeavor

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that we're all tackling right now.

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Any final words of wisdom, Meaghan?

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- Just remember that anything you're doing

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right now is really incredible,

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and that we are all doing the best we can,

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and we are here to support
you, and stay safe.

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- We wish you tremendous success.

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Bye, all.


Khan Academy Best Practices for Elementary School

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- Hey everyone, this is Jeremy
Shieffen with Khan Academy.

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I'm so excited that you joined us today.

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Not just because, Khan
Academy really wants

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to support you during
this challenging time,

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but as a former kindergarten teacher,

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this session that's
dedicated to elementary

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school education and
elementary school students,

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is one that's near and dear to my heart,

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and that's why I'm so
excited to introduce you

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to Lisa Orcutt, who's one of our

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amazing Khan Academy Ambassadors.

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Like me, Lisa is based in California,

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and is currently in the
same boat as everyone else,

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trying to serve her
fourth graders remotely

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with the tools that are at her disposal.

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So that being said we'll
get into Khan Academy

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in a second Lisa,

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but if you wouldn't mind
opening up with a little bit

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about your background as an educator,

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I think that would help folks understand

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where you're coming from.

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- So I started off as a
sub when I was working

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through my masters program.

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And, at the time I
didn't wanna be a teacher

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it was just an easy way for
me to do, all the curriculum

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that's required for a master's degree,

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while, having the ability to
be flexible in your schedule.

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Anybody who's taken a masters program

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even if it's online like
mine was, it's a lot of work.

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And, what ended up
happening is it backfired.

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I fell in love with teaching,

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and decided that that's
what I wanted to do.

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And so I finished up my masters program

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and then entered my credentialing program.

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And if everything goes right
even with the shut-downs,

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I will be, induction next year

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but I've been teaching full-time

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in the classroom since 2017.

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So I'm on my, third school year,

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teaching pretty much as
the teacher on record.

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And, that's where my
journey has taken me so far

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but it's five to six years,
counting my sub years.

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- Very cool.

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I'm guessing when you were back in your

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teacher education days
it never prepared you

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for teaching remotely during
a pandemic, so here we are.

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- No.
(laughing)

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- Well, that being said, if we just rewind

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the tape a little bit-
- (mumbles) completely

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prepared us for.
- That's right.

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If we just go back a
little bit to like your

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sort of beginning with Khan Academy,

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tell us a little bit about,
why you chose Khan Academy

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and why it was sort of useful
for you and your students.

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- So, I was long term subbing at a Russian

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charter school, and I had a student.

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And for people who wonder
why there's a Russian

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charter school,
(clears throat)

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the Slavic community in Northern
California is very large.

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And a lot of them...

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A lot of people in the Slavic community

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wanna keep their culture
and their language.

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Because we know through social science

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that that's something that
gets lost very quickly.

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And they didn't wanna lose that.

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And so they set up a public charter school

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where they take any students,

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but one of the things that is mandatory

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is they have Russian class, which teaches

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the language and the culture and the food.

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And I got hired on to
long term sub for them

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in a fourth grade class of all things.

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And I had a student who was testing,

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six, seventh, eighth grade math.

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Well at fourth grade when
most of your students

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are classified as English
Language Learners,

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you're pretty slow going on math

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because this is where the word
problems get really intense.

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But she was breezing through the work.

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And we all know that when kids get bored,

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they act out, they get distracted,

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they start doing things they shouldn't.

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So I went and got one of
the middle school books,

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and was having her work on those.

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She was breezing through
that, she wasn't...

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She was bored, everything was coming out.

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And, I started looking
at things that my husband

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had recommended, and
those were more geared

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towards college students so
it didn't work for her either.

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And finally, I reached out to
a colleague and I was going,

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"What do I do for this young lady?

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"She is too fast for the rest of the class

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"and if I go at her speed,
the rest of the class

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"is going to fall behind."

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And she recommended Khan Academy,

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because she used it to study for her CSET.

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And for those of you not in California

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the CSET is what we use to test for our

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initial credentialing
process in California.

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And so I pulled it up and I was
like, "Oh, this is amazing."

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And I set her up on grade
four, so on our grade level

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and at the very bottom
of the grade level page,

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it has something called Course Challenge.

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And what that is, is it tests you on all

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the major standards of that grade.

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I said' "Start here, take this."

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"If you get less than an 80,

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"that's where we're going
to figure out where you

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"need to do your work."

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And, she hit seventh,
eighth grade word problems

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and that's where she kind
of hit the brick wall.

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But she spent the rest of the time

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listening to our math lessons,
and doing the Khan Academy

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to work on those seventh,
eighth grade word problems.

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And, I was able to slow down and go

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the pace with my fourth graders.

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And she loved it, her mom loved it.

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Her mom especially loved
it because when she went

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back to her dad's, cause her
dad lived out of country,

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during the summer, she would have some way

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to stay up on her schooling.

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And I fell in love with it after that.

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And when I got hired on as
a teacher where I work now,

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I started doing it, to help backlog

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and support my students
because I teach in a very

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low income, low academic,
scoring demographic.

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So I use it to kind of
help catch up my students

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who are struggling, as well as
my students who are advanced,

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so that I can focus our solo math time

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where I am teaching in the
classroom, on grade level stuff,

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but they still have that extra support

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and scaffolding that they may need.

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- I love that story cause
it really brings out sort of

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the essence of why Sal Khan
built this in the first place.

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- Exactly!
- No just to have

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a bunch of worksheets online,

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but to actually differentiate
and serve students

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at scale, whether they're
far ahead or far behind.

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I have a couple more
questions for you Lisa

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before we go to the audience questions.

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I wanna cut to the chase here and address

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the 800 pound gorilla in the room,

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which is...
- Yeah.

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- If someone was starting
with Khan Academy today,

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and there are literally
thousands of elementary

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educators trying to do
exactly that this week.

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What would you recommend for
them, to get set up quickly?

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How can they bring Khan Academy

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to their students in an effective way,

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even in this remote learning environment?

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- So first of all, don't panic.

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There is a learning curve for Khan Academy

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even for teachers.

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Thankfully though, Sal and
his team of developers,

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bless them, I mean, bless them,

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because they have made it so smooth

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you can import your Google classroom

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if you already have one set up.

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The only thing you have to do manually,

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is like our district, the Google class...

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The Google names in Google Classroom

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are actually the, student ID numbers.

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So you as the teacher
have to go in and manually

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change to their first and last name,

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but you can actually import, everybody.

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Which means you don't
have to send out invites,

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you don't have to wait for them to log in

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and, you don't even technically
have to assign anything.

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You can just tell them where to start.

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And so, that's what I usually do

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at the beginning of the year,

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is I import my students for the first day.

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And then I don't assign anything yet.

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Because what I do, is
the first couple weeks

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we're getting in standards,
what I expect of you,

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what our expectations,
what are their behaviors.

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And I introduced them to Khan Academy.

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And I tell them to play with the website.

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Have some fun, get used
to it, figure it out.

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If you have questions, I'll help you,

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because I'm teaching them, what we call

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intermediate, elementary level.

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So my students are a little
bit more independent,

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so they can play around
with it and figure it out

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and then I can be, a little hands off.

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After that I explain what
we're gonna be using it for.

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And one of the things that I instruct

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them on, is I tell them, "This is how

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"you're going to be using it."

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And I show them how to
find that challenge test.

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And then I get out the toys.

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And as an ambassador,
I have several pencils

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that were gifted to me.

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And I have some other prizes,
like I have some pencils

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that my students have
gotten over the years,

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they don't wanna keep from
parties and things like that.

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I put some of my
crocheted goodies in there

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because I make my own stuff.

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I buy a lot of stuff off of Wish Geek.

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So like I have, let me
pull it out, where is it?

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So I have stuff like this,
and I get them in bulk.

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And I tell my students,
that for every grade level

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you complete, you get a prize.

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If you complete the
one for our grade level

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you get one of the Khan Academy pencils,

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and another prize from the price bin.

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So now there's this incentive
for them to wanna do it.

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But the rule is, you have to have, an 80

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or higher, on the grade
level challenge test.

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And you have to complete, all

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of the lessons for fourth grade.

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And I kind of let the kids go it that way

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because when they hit that 80%

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that means they're proficient.

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I'm not expecting perfection,

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these are children, it's not gonna work.

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Kids are gonna get bored,
they're gonna mentally check out.

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When they hit less than 80% I tell them,

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"That's where your struggle is.

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"And it'll tell you what section

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"of that grade level
you're struggling with.

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"Those are the mastery
lessons that you need to take.

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"That'll help you get caught
up on our grade level."

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And I don't use it as my
sole means of teaching.

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I use this as a scaffold,
this is strictly for support.

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Because by law, in
California keep this in mind.

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By law in California,
students have to be exposed

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to all grade level materials,
so this is my scaffold.

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Now, if I have a student
when we do our initial tests

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cause in California, we do
those kind of benchmark testing.

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Where we find out where
they are at the beginning

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of the year, in the middle of the year

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and the end of the year.

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If I have some of these
tests (mumbles) higher,

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I have them start at fourth
grade and work their way up.

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And this is my way of
giving them those challenges

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because again, higher
performing students get bored

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easily they start getting in trouble

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and then we have a whole mess.

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Don't freak out if your
kids are going very slow.

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Because for some students,
this is going to be new,

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it's gonna be a struggle.

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And if you have an EL student, like I have

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10% of my class is
English-Language Learner,

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they're going to struggle with it more

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because this is all written
in formal academic language.

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And that is the hardest thing
for EL students to learn.

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- That's great.

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So just to recap a couple
of the key things there.

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I think, first of all, you're
definitely not in a rush

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to sort of roll out Khan Academy,

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no matter what you're
hearing from the district,

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because it does take time.
(laughing)

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Even when Lisa has her-
- It does.

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Students right in front of her,

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it takes them a few weeks to sort of get

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them acclimated to this.

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So, one thing you could say is, "Hey,

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"I've rostered you on google classroom,

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"I've rostered you manually
in the student section.

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"Now, all you're gonna
do for the first week,

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"just come in here, and search

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"for the things you're interested in.

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"Whether you wanna search
for, multiplying fractions,

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"or addition, or what have you,

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"just play around with it."

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And that actually sort of
leads into another question,

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which is coming to us from Courtney.

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Now I'm gonna switch to some questions

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from the audience here.
(clears throat)

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Courtney says, "These
exercises are really cool.

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"But I also see the Khan
Academy has all these videos.

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"Would you recommend
using the videos as well

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"or just focusing on the exercises?

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"How would you prioritize?"
- For sure.

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Use the videos. So, storytime.

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Our district, had some
issues with curriculum

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for the last few years.

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And I was using Khan Academy a lot

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to show the demonstration videos.

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Because Sal and anyone else
who's doing the videos with him,

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really breaks it down into
nice, easy to digest chunks.

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And for some students,
they are visual learners.

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Just doing the problems
for a visual learner

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isn't going to make any sense.

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They need to see someone, doing the work

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so they can follow along.

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And for some students they need to hear

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that audio instruction.

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For other students, they just wanna read

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because, Sal is really
cool, and he puts everything

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in closed captions on the bottom.

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And so it's very adaptive.

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So it has all, four modalities of learning

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built into the videos.

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I encourage the kids to watch them

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especially when they hit
that brick wall of struggle.

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And it's like, you're
struggling with word problems

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here's the video on how Sal shows you

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how to break out, all the
important information.

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And, Sal walks through it step by step,

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and the kids can walk
through it with them,

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and then they can try
it again on their own.

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Don't skip the videos.

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The videos are very, very vital.

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And they're amazing to help your students

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particularly if you use
this for small groups,

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or math centers, which is
what I've been using it

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for, before we went on, hiatus.

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As I would pull a small
group after the main lesson,

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we would work on what they needed

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to work on and I would have some students

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on our curriculum digital
site because again,

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our curriculum is slightly hybridized.

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And then I would have others doing,

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prodigy, all that good stuff.

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And then I would have another
group doing Khan Academy

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and they would cycle
through all three, or four

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or five, depending on
how many you wanna use.

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So they're getting the same
stuff from multiple sources,

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to kind of build on those skills.

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And the videos are something that I love

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about Khan Academy, because
I do have those students,

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they have to see it, being done

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and they can slow it
down, they can pause it,

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they can look at what
he's trying to pick out,

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and try to figure it out on their own,

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and then they can get that
courage to ask for help.

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- Very cool.

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And so now Sylvia,
(coughs)

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your fellow California educator,

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has a sort of advanced
level question for you

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which is okay, "If we played this all out.

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"You know, we've started
with Khan Academy.

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"Our kids have started
watching some videos,

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"doing some basic exercises,
maybe they've taken

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"those course mastery challenges
at the end of each course

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"just to see where they are.

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"But now we're gonna flash
fast forward a little bit,

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"maybe like six months from now,

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"and our kids are hopefully
coming back to school

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"in September, and they're way behind

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"because, it's been tough
to sort of fill those gaps

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"over the next couple months.

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"What can I use Khan Academy
for, to help my students

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"be ready for that next grade level,

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"even with all the challenges in our way?"

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- Use it to fill in the gaps.

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Have the kids do it as their homework.

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One of the things that
I've taken as a philosophy

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for homework, is if your child...

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If your student, is on grade level

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it's fine to send them
grade level homework.

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If your student is
performing below grade level

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I try to send them home remedial homework

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to develop those skills.

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So, I have had students
where, they're still

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struggling with number sense.

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I'm not gonna send them
fractions when we're working

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on fractions in class, home is homework.

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Because I don't know if their family

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or anyone in the family
knows how to help them.

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I don't know, if they even
have anyone who can help them.

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So I'm gonna send them
stuff on number sense,

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to build that up.

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And if I know that student has
access to a computer at home

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I'm gonna be going,
"Alright, I want you to work

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"on number sense, on Khan Academy.

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"And if you can't find it,
send me a message on Dojo,

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"you have my email
address, you can email me.

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"And I will assign it to you
because you can do assignments,

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"and then you don't have to
worry about trying to find it."

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And then my students can build that also

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that sense of independent studying,

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because, we are coming up with

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something that I've discovered

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and I think a lot of
teachers have discovered

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is over the last few
years, a lot of students

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have slipped into this,
passive learning mentality

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of, "Just tell me what
you want me to tell you."

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And I want them to build
that sense of independence

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and that sense of, taking
ownership of their education.

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So that's one way that
I do it is I'm like,

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"Okay, if you can't do this
without me holding your hand,

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"and just giving you fill in the blanks,

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"I'm gonna give you
what I know you can do,

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"and I'm just gonna increase
the hardness a little bit."

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Cause we're building that strength.

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And so, if I can only
lift a five pound weight,

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why am I going, to go home and try to lift

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a 25 pound weight?

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- Totally.
- So I'm gonna go home

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and I'm gonna work with
a six pound weight.

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And then when that gets too light,

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I'm gonna go up to an eight pound weight.

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And then I'm gonna work up
to that 25 pound weight.

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Cause if a kid is working
and they can only lift

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five pounds and you send them home,

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telling him to bench press 25 pounds,

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they're not gonna do it,
they're gonna give up.

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- It's always having that
sort of zone of proximal

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development, that sort of ri-
- Yes

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Next challenge, not too
much, not too little.

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- Yeah.
- Actually,

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this idea of empowering kids sort of feeds

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wrapping into a question from Sandy.

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This is such a great question from Sandy

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cause it speaks to the dilemma
for elementary educators

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in particular during this time.

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"You know, it's tough enough to motivate

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"and keep students engaged
in an elementary classroom.

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"But now that we're in this
remote learning environment,

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"how do you actually hold
students accountable,

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"given all the other
distractions, and the difficulty

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"you have reaching out and engaging them?"

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- You can't.

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Not in the sense that we
could in the classroom.

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You gotta remember their
parents are stressed,

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some of their parents have lost jobs.

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Some of these kids are
maybe the older sibling

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looking after the little siblings.

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And so what you can do
is just encourage them

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to take that independence.

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Look, I know you're
stressed, you're scared,

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you're afraid, you don't
know what's going on.

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Your parents are freaking
out, your parents are at work,

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and you're by yourself, and...

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Just use this as a focal point.

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Give me 10 minutes a day,
and that's all I ask.

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That way we don't fall behind.

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And, because I'm gonna tell you right now,

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if you start calling
parents, "Bobby didn't do

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"his math work this week."

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Most of the parents are gonna
be like, "I really don't care,

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"I'm more worried about
feeding Bobby at this point."

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So it's about understanding
and being patient

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that for some of these kids,
they're not gonna do it.

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But for some of these kids,
they are going to do it

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and they are going to thrive.

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And so it's understanding that, it's

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our zone of control now.

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They are no longer,
directly in our proximity.

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We can do our best and
call it, a day on that.

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We can adore them from
afar and encourage them

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and remind them that we
want them to succeed.

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And just hope they'll take it

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upon themselves to finally listen.

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(laughing)
(mumbles)

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- And I actually wanna pick
up on that thread of parents

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and family is cause, as
someone with two young

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elementary school kids myself at home,

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I know that I'm struggling
personally to keep them engaged

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and to stay in touch with their teachers.

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Anni wants to know, "Lisa,
do you have any tips

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"for making Khan easy for parents?"

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Obviously to your point, they're stressed,

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they've got a lot on their shoulders.

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How can we explain this whole Khan thing

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to the parent community.

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- Make it very well
known that this is free.

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Cause the second you say
it's free, guaranteed free

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most parents will relax just a little bit.

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And explain to them you, "It's really easy

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"to play around with, just go have fun,

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"the kids can figure it out.

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"It's very independent and easy to use.

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"If you need help, please email me.

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"There's lots of help pages,

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"there's videos on how to use it.

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"And it's just a matter of take your time,

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"click around, play with it, and if you

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"still have questions, I can help you."

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And for those of you wondering
how you talk to parents,

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if you don't wanna do email,
or you need to talk to them

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over the phone, star six,
seven or set up Google Voice.

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It'll mask your phone
number, no muss, no fuss.

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And, explain to them
that, you can assign work

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if they're worried about the kids

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not finding the stuff
that's good for them.

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Because you as the teacher
can actually see specifically

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where they're, growing
and how they're doing

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and, what they're working on.

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So it's not, fully independent because you

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can still monitor and check on things.

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- Cool, and then sort
of continuing this theme

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of, making sure that folks feel
supported on the home front.

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I think you could probably
speak to this Lisa,

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given the underserved
community that you teach in.

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But Christan says, "The struggle for me

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"is that many of my students
don't have the technology

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"or the internet access
to do online learning.

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"Any recommendations for filling
that sort of digital gap?"

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- Most digital learning programs,

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such as Khan Academy have apps.

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I think it's called Khan
Kids or something like that.

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- Yeah, I'll just clarify there.

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So, Khan Academy has an app,
that very much replicates

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the exact thing you see,
on the website for iOS,

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iPhones, iPads, Android, Android phones,

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and Android tablets, those are all free

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and you can download
those from the app stores.

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(clears throat)
In addition there is

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a separate app called Khan Kids,
that's really dedicated to,

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sort of, two year old to six year old set.

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- Yeah, and if you have an EL student,

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the Khan Kids is a really
good way to help them

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develop their English
skills cause of it teaches

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that fanatical awareness,
that is very hard

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to teach in distance learning.

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And for the, lack of the technology,

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a lot of districts are stepping
up and letting students

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check out, Chromebooks, in computers.

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If your district isn't
doing that, I'm afraid

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they're gonna have to
rely on mobile devices.

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As for internet, a lot of ISP providers

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are providing students with months

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of free internet hotspots.

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I know here in California
Xfinity is doing it.

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It's two months free.

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I'm a little, lucky in that our district

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has already formed some contracts

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so we have some hotspots that we're able

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to give out to the kids.

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And our district is 99%, one to one.

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We have like, I think the adult learning

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and a few other ones might not be.

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So we're able to check out the Chromebooks

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and send them home.

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But again, they're going to have to rely

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on mobile devices and get creative.

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I wish there was another way to put it.

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But, here's the cool thing.

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Google classroom, and most of
these apps are also compatible

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and I haven't tested it with Khan Academy.

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But I do think it would
work because it's not

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flash enabled or anything like that.

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Most game systems, have
a built in web browser.

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You can use, 90% of
digital learning activities

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on these game systems
using their web browser.

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So, even if your kids just
have a PlayStation four

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there's a way for them to
get into distance learning.

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They just have to figure it out and take

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the time to play with it.

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And trust me, 80% of our kids,

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are better at technology than us.

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And I'm in my early
30s, and some of my kids

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have figured out things that I don't know.

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(laughing)

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- Cool, and so, I'm
seeing a lot of questions

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pouring here, folks are
saying, "This is amazing.

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"But can we take one big step back

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"and just talk about like,
how do you even assign

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"stuff in the first place?"

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So if you wouldn't mind sort of walking us

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through that, I'll
mimic what you're saying

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on the screen here, Lisa.
- Sure.

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So, I first of all sign
into my teacher account.

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(clears throat)

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And then there is a nice fancy little tab

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that says Classes, Students and Resources.

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Your Student ones are individual.

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And that just lets you
monitor their progress,

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Resources are ways you can use this,

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how you can use it,
different things like that.

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It's kind of like a help
button, for the teacher.

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And then under Classes,
you pick your class.

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So, we have all of these
neat little classes

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we're just gonna go with algebra one.

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Under assignments, you
see a little button,

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it's a drop down button so
you have to, click it down

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if it doesn't auto drop,
cause it'll look like that.

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Then you go to assign, and it allows you

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to pick things, based
on the topic at hand.

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So I always pick fourth grade.

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And then I pick whatever we're working on.

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So, early math is usually
a good one to go with.

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If I have specific students
that I know are struggling

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with something, I'll click
around to where they need.

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Let's go with counting small numbers.

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You click the little checkbox,

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and it will, assign
everything under that window.

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But in here you've only got the worksheet.

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Now if you look at counting the lesson,

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it does all the videos,
plus the little quizzes.

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So I always pick the whole lesson.

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Unless I just need a student to review

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then I just pick the video.

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Then you hit assign, and it
will show up to the students

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that you choose, or your entire class.

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And I always have the randomized
option for the questions

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I don't do the same question set

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because then the kids can share answers.

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It's a way to discourage, fibbing.

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If it's only one or two students,

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I'll find them in the drop
down menu under students

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and just click those students.

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If it's all of my students, I do it.

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I try to give them a large window

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when I'm doing the whole lesson,

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because they need that
time to digest the video

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and go back and review it.

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So I usually give them
about about a week yeah,

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about a week, and then you hit assign.

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And what ends up happening
with that, is it pushes

00:25:04.380 --> 00:25:07.010
it out to the students and
the students can check on it.

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Now the way the students check
on it is a little different.

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So if you go to...

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Is this a fake student profile?

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- Yeah, and so just to be clear

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you can always see what students see

00:25:17.320 --> 00:25:19.730
by going up to your name in
the upper right hand corner,

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and going from your teacher dashboard

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to your learner home, cause you also have

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a student view.
- Okay.

00:25:24.128 --> 00:25:27.590
Yes, and so it'll show all
of their little goodies

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and if you look, there's little badges

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and price points and
all that mastery points.

00:25:31.826 --> 00:25:33.090
(clears throat)

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But if they go, they can go
and they click assignments,

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And that's where all the
teacher assigned work is.

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So here they have everything they did,

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it shows what they did.

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The videos always show is completed.

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The lesson overall shows is completed

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but the actual work, shows the percentage

00:25:51.730 --> 00:25:54.750
they got correct or completed.

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So in this case this
student is scoring hundreds.

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I would start applying much harder work,

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to find out where that
student is struggling

00:26:01.740 --> 00:26:04.210
so I know where the student needs to focus

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when they are within the classroom.

00:26:07.010 --> 00:26:08.290
- Very cool.

00:26:08.290 --> 00:26:11.660
Hopefully that gives folks a
sense of, how to get started.

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One last question for you
before we wrap up here.

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I know there are some
more questions coming in,

00:26:15.820 --> 00:26:17.977
if folks wanna sort of
get to the next level,

00:26:17.977 --> 00:26:19.577
"Okay, I've played
around with Khan Academy.

00:26:19.577 --> 00:26:21.857
"Maybe my students have
played around with it now

00:26:21.857 --> 00:26:22.997
"but I have more questions,

00:26:22.997 --> 00:26:25.090
"I wanna get more help more support."

00:26:25.090 --> 00:26:26.290
Any recommendations Lisa,

00:26:26.290 --> 00:26:28.140
based on all the resources out there.

00:26:29.530 --> 00:26:31.210
- YouTube.
(laughing)

00:26:31.210 --> 00:26:32.890
Sal has so many videos on YouTube

00:26:32.890 --> 00:26:34.380
on how to use Khan Academy.

00:26:34.380 --> 00:26:36.890
They're actually linked on
the Khan Academy website.

00:26:36.890 --> 00:26:41.780
Again, under that My Resources,
there are training videos.

00:26:41.780 --> 00:26:46.003
Training videos, that
show you how to use it.

00:26:47.570 --> 00:26:49.970
There's also I believe a Contact Us option

00:26:49.970 --> 00:26:52.770
where if you really, really
stuck I think you can email.

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I've been lucky I've never had to use it.

00:26:56.540 --> 00:26:58.410
- Yeah, and let me actually
pause you for one second

00:26:58.410 --> 00:27:00.370
cause this is so important.
(clears throat)

00:27:00.370 --> 00:27:02.360
I was actually on the phone with Comcast

00:27:02.360 --> 00:27:04.440
for about four hours this weekend.

00:27:04.440 --> 00:27:06.280
And so I know that like
everyone is struggling

00:27:06.280 --> 00:27:07.277
to provide customer service right now-

00:27:07.277 --> 00:27:09.710
- You and me both.
(chuckling)

00:27:09.710 --> 00:27:11.850
- Khan Academy however, has completely

00:27:11.850 --> 00:27:13.620
ramped up our offerings here.

00:27:13.620 --> 00:27:15.360
And so now, if you go to the help section,

00:27:15.360 --> 00:27:18.660
again, it's your name,
and help right over here.

00:27:18.660 --> 00:27:21.400
You can come over to the
section called Report a Problem.

00:27:21.400 --> 00:27:23.507
And it could be a technical
issue, or it could just be,

00:27:23.507 --> 00:27:24.940
"How do I assign assignments?"

00:27:24.940 --> 00:27:26.520
I forgot what Lisa told me.

00:27:26.520 --> 00:27:28.940
We're happy to answer
any and all questions,

00:27:28.940 --> 00:27:30.550
and here's the really incredible part.

00:27:30.550 --> 00:27:31.383
Even in the midst
(clears throat)

00:27:31.383 --> 00:27:33.130
of this crisis, even as a nonprofit,

00:27:33.130 --> 00:27:35.600
we typically respond
within a couple of hours.

00:27:35.600 --> 00:27:38.120
So if you have other questions
that were not answered today,

00:27:38.120 --> 00:27:40.533
this is a great place to
go and get some support.

00:27:41.920 --> 00:27:44.070
- Yeah, and I'll tell you right now,

00:27:44.070 --> 00:27:46.090
we used to use this support
program in my district

00:27:46.090 --> 00:27:47.580
and I had this student.

00:27:47.580 --> 00:27:49.140
Oddly enough, he was an EL,

00:27:49.140 --> 00:27:52.120
but his math skills were amazing.

00:27:52.120 --> 00:27:55.350
The scaffold program that we
had built into our curriculum,

00:27:55.350 --> 00:27:58.150
he beat, in four months,
in the school year.

00:27:58.150 --> 00:28:00.042
So less than, a third of the way

00:28:00.042 --> 00:28:02.070
through the school year, he was done.

00:28:02.070 --> 00:28:05.360
I put him on Khan Academy,
I still to this day

00:28:05.360 --> 00:28:08.810
give him assignments, even
though he's now in sixth grade.

00:28:08.810 --> 00:28:12.130
Because he is breezing through
our current curriculum.

00:28:12.130 --> 00:28:14.440
So I have reached out to
his grade level teacher

00:28:14.440 --> 00:28:17.787
and I'm like, "Yo, he's still
in my Khan Academy classrooms.

00:28:17.787 --> 00:28:19.107
"I'm still seen his work.

00:28:19.107 --> 00:28:22.170
"Would you like me to assign
him other challenging things?"

00:28:22.170 --> 00:28:24.407
And his teachers are like, "Yes, please.

00:28:24.407 --> 00:28:26.027
"Oh, my goodness, he's already done

00:28:26.027 --> 00:28:27.520
"with our curriculum stuff online."

00:28:27.520 --> 00:28:29.540
And I'm like, "Okay cool, no problem."

00:28:29.540 --> 00:28:33.020
So it's also a good way if
you're a parent, intent,

00:28:33.020 --> 00:28:35.050
you can set up a parent account,

00:28:35.050 --> 00:28:37.270
through your teacher account.

00:28:37.270 --> 00:28:39.190
And you can actually
set your kids up on this

00:28:39.190 --> 00:28:41.260
if you wanna give them extra help, too.

00:28:41.260 --> 00:28:44.690
So it isn't just as
teachers, and it's amazing.

00:28:44.690 --> 00:28:48.470
And, I am so grateful
that Sal took the time

00:28:48.470 --> 00:28:50.610
to go from doing this just on YouTube,

00:28:50.610 --> 00:28:52.260
to doing this on his own website.

00:28:53.120 --> 00:28:55.490
- Absolutely and, Lisa, I wanna thank you

00:28:55.490 --> 00:28:58.860
for, sharing so much expertise
and knowledge with us today.

00:28:58.860 --> 00:29:00.120
If you would just sort of finish up with

00:29:00.120 --> 00:29:01.570
any words of wisdom,
(beeping)

00:29:01.570 --> 00:29:03.557
as educators across the
country are thinking about,

00:29:03.557 --> 00:29:06.277
"Wow, I've got a lot of
my shoulders right now.

00:29:06.277 --> 00:29:08.890
"How do I move forward in
this challenging moment?"

00:29:08.890 --> 00:29:11.650
Any last sort of words of
advice you wanna share?

00:29:11.650 --> 00:29:14.070
- Breathe, take it one day at a time.

00:29:14.070 --> 00:29:15.940
One lesson at a time.

00:29:15.940 --> 00:29:20.020
Remember, the kids are just
as up in the air as we are.

00:29:20.020 --> 00:29:21.820
The districts are just
up in the air as we are,

00:29:21.820 --> 00:29:24.230
the parents are just up
in the air as we are.

00:29:24.230 --> 00:29:27.420
Give them work, that you know they can do.

00:29:27.420 --> 00:29:29.490
Give them work that will challenge them.

00:29:29.490 --> 00:29:34.040
But don't expect them to be 100%.

00:29:34.040 --> 00:29:38.230
Just, breathe and let
them learn at their pace.

00:29:38.230 --> 00:29:39.820
Because now we don't
have to teach the test,

00:29:39.820 --> 00:29:42.010
standardized testing is suspended.

00:29:42.010 --> 00:29:45.530
Let them learn at their pace.

00:29:45.530 --> 00:29:47.170
They've got this, we've got this

00:29:47.170 --> 00:29:49.830
we need to be calm for them.
(clapping)

00:29:49.830 --> 00:29:52.870
- Wow, couldn't say it better myself Lisa.

00:29:52.870 --> 00:29:53.703
Thank you so much
(chuckling)

00:29:53.703 --> 00:29:55.220
for, leaving us a little inspiration

00:29:55.220 --> 00:29:57.730
on our otherwise tough
day and thank you everyone

00:29:57.730 --> 00:29:59.650
for investing time in this session.

00:29:59.650 --> 00:30:01.580
You will have a recording
after this in your email,

00:30:01.580 --> 00:30:03.810
feel free to share with, fellow colleagues

00:30:03.810 --> 00:30:05.110
and thank you again Lisa,

00:30:05.110 --> 00:30:07.190
for making us all a little smarter today.

00:30:07.190 --> 00:30:08.050
(chuckling)

00:30:08.050 --> 00:30:09.600
- Not a problem, everybody good luck.

00:30:09.600 --> 00:30:10.770
Have an awesome
(clapping)

00:30:10.770 --> 00:30:12.370
rest of the year as best we can.

00:30:13.830 --> 00:30:15.853
- Cheers.
- Bye, bye.