If you haven’t learned something yet, you can keep working on it. The last third of the book was: “What could a school of the future look like if you have tools like this? Can we use technology tools for more personalized learning?” Which is just learning at your own time and pace. At least in certain domains, you can start learning at your own time and pace. A lot of students start accumulating gaps and you get to the world that we get to today where the average American student learns about 0.7 grade levels per year. And if they didn’t, too bad the assembly line keeps moving on. It batched students together, put them essentially on kind of a standards-based assembly line where the teacher might give some lectures and at some point there’s a check to see if the students got things. It borrowed tools of the Industrial Revolution. And in that was: How did the education system that most of us have lived in and still exists - how did that come to be? Mass public education, it was a hugely positive thing for society, but it had to make some compromises. KHAN: In 2012, I wrote a book, The One World Schoolhouse. LEVITT: Can you just explain the key concept behind the Khan World School? What makes it different? What makes it better? Today in this special bonus episode, I sit down with Sal to hear how the first year turned out, and I chat with Chloe Peterson, one of the students attending the school. Welcome to People I (Mostly) Admire, with Steve Levitt. KHAN : And so we said, “Let’s do the world’s best high school that happens to be online.” Here’s Sal at that time, talking about his hopes for what the school could be. But the last time we talked a year ago, the model was unproven. It’s a fully online high school with a self-paced curriculum content delivered largely through videos and a weekly deep dive into one big important issue. We were talking back then about his big new idea, the Khan World School. A year ago, back in episode 82, I talked to Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy, one of the most visited online education sites.
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