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    The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined

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    A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere: this is the goal of the Khan Academy, a passion project that grew from an ex-engineer and hedge funder's online tutoring sessions with his niece, who was struggling with algebra, into a worldwide phenomenon. Today millions of students, parents, and teachers use the Khan Academy's free videos and software, which have expanded to encompass nearly every conceivable subject; and Academy techniques are being employed with exciting results in a growing number of classrooms around the globe.

    Like many innovators, Khan rethinks existing assumptions and imagines what education could be if freed from them. And his core idea-liberating teachers from lecturing and state-mandated calendars and opening up class time for truly human interaction-has become his life's passion. Schools seek his advice about connecting to students in a digital age, and people of all ages and backgrounds flock to the site to utilize this fresh approach to learning.

    In THE ONE WORLD SCHOOLHOUSE, Khan presents his radical vision for the future of education, as well as his own remarkable story, for the first time. In these pages, you will discover, among other things:

    • How both students and teachers are being bound by a broken top-down model invented in Prussia two centuries ago
    • Why technology will make classrooms more human and teachers more important
    • How and why we can afford to pay educators the same as other professionals
    • How we can bring creativity and true human interactivity back to learning
    • Why we should be very optimistic about the future of learning.
    Parents and politicians routinely bemoan the state of our education system. Statistics suggest we've fallen behind the rest of the world in literacy, math, and sciences. With a shrewd reading of history, Khan explains how this crisis presented itself, and why a return to "mastery learning," abandoned in the twentieth century and ingeniously revived by tools like the Khan Academy, could offer the best opportunity to level the playing field, and to give all of our children a world-class education now.

    More than just a solution, THE ONE WORLD SCHOOLHOUSE serves as a call for free, universal, global education, and an explanation of how Khan's simple yet revolutionary thinking can help achieve this inspiring goal.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateOct 2, 2012
    ISBN9781611136968
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    • 5/5
      When I go into education (it is inevitable for my future, even though I have inclusion in the field at the present), this book will influence every important decision I make. I was positively overwhelmed by the sheer genuine nature of Sal Khan, and his ingenious (though extremely practical and common-sense) ideas and plans for the future of education in the world. I quickly subscribed to the khanacademy.com website and brushed up on my high school math skills!
    • 4/5
      Two things: I cannot say that I have had thoughts along all of these lines before, but for some of them I have. Nearly eight years of college and I was so sick of it that I just stopped the process, But I continue to love to learn. Indeed, tis my primary satisfaction in life. So....yes, some of these very same concepts have occurred to me in the past. Second, I wish I had dropped out of high school as soon as I was legally allowed. I would have saved two years of my life. The GED, CLEP test, and general testing out of classes and I could've graduated right on time w/ everybody else from my graduating class. As it was, 3 years in the military, a year of travel, and goofing off to the max following the military and I still graduated just 3 years behind everybody else. High school as it is currently devised is an absolute waste of most kids' time. Ditto for much of college. hence, I fully concur w/ the author, Kahn, in that radical steps must be taken to keep education apace w/ the movement of civilization....
    • 5/5
      Great inclusion of Khan's personal story bringing for the Khan Academy, the observed benefits and the projected future for free universal education without taxes.
    • 5/5
      This is an important book, and Mr. Khan deserves all the accolades and respect that are being accorded him.This is an important book because it makes the case that knowledge can be conveyed as well by digital media as by human teachers. The book describes very clearly the importance of this point in imagining a more flexible K-12 system that is open to all. The Khan Academy is just the tip of the iceberg in the sense that the seminal teaching tools devised by Mr. Khan, as effective as they have proven to be, are potentially just the beginning as the more advanced digital technologies coming into being begin to be exploited in teaching tool development. Salman Khan, through this book, has opened a door on a dramatically improved education system. The Khan Academy, described here, is the disrupting innovation; the rest of the iceberg hasn't happened yet. Our nation badly needs it.
    • 5/5
      lots of stuff I agree with here:
      -Doing away with grades- students progress to the next after they have mastered a concept
      -watching lectures independently, doing individual and group problem solving and "homework" in the classroom with teachers helping
      -flexible school times, team teachers
      -teaching students HOW to learn, be creative, and stay curious