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Khan Academy Wants to Make 'Mastery Learning' Mainstream. Will Partnering With Schools Help?

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A big idea driving Khan Academy is a belief in “mastery learning”—that students should show proficiency in one set of materials before moving on to the next. The nonprofit’s latest push to make mastery learning mainstream involves partnering with school districts who adopt Khan Academy’s materials and platform.

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Why Mastery Based Learning is a Good Option

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To facilitate this, students are met where they are in their learning, not where the grade level says they should be. For example, the third-grade student who loves math and moves effortlessly through the Khan Academy lessons for his grade level is encouraged to continue to the 4th, 5th, even middle school offerings. ” .

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8 Ed-tech organizations every teacher should know about

Neo LMS

At the heart of the program is the Future Ready Framework, part of a very useful online dashboard. iNACOL (International Association of K-12 Online Learning). Structure: Membership-based. Focus: Digital Learning Advocacy and Research. Focus: Closing the digital learning gap. Level: K12. Digital Promise.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The popularity of sites like Khan Academy helped fuel the narrative that video could teach anything and that YouTube would “ reinvent education ” — funny, as Thomas Edison thought the same thing about film back in 1922. CZI took over the engineering of the learning management system from Facebook in 2017.).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Testing, Testing… From the Khan Academy blog : “ Khan Academy is the Official Practice Partner for AP.” ” This is the second major partnership the organization has made with the College Board , as Khan Academy is also its test prep site of choice for the SAT.