- Hi, everyone, welcome to the Daily Homeroom live stream.
I'm Sal Khan from Khan Academy.
For those of you all who are new to this,
this is a Homeroom that we are doing every day,
as the name implies, to really stay connected
during these times of school closures.
Khan Academy, we realize that we have a role,
we have a duty to step up when we saw the schools closing.
And we said how can we better support parents,
teachers, students around the country and around the world
in these really hard times.
It's we've been running parent webinars, teacher webinars,
putting together all of our content from early learning.
We're gonna talk a lot about early learning today
from early learning all the way through elementary,
middle and high school and ways,
learning plans and schedules that can help folks.
And then also to do this so that we can stay connected
and answer folks questions in kind of a live synchronous way
in this time of social distancing.
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So I am super excited about our guest today,
we've had her on before.
But she's got several really exciting announcements
that I have to say, I was just telling Caroline before this,
I'm quite enthusiastic, I'm quite excited
about some of the stuff she's gonna talk about.
So Caroline, maybe I'll let you take the floor,
you know, you have a couple of announcements.
Tell us what's new at Khan Academy Kids.
Or actually remind folks what Khan Academy Kids is,
and then tell us what's new.
- Sounds good, yep.
So I lead the Khan Academy Kids team,
which is a program for children ages two through seven,
so preschool through grade one.
And it's a comprehensive early learning program
that covers multiple subjects,
everything from academic subjects like reading, and math
and also social emotional development
and executive function skills.
And our app includes thousands of lessons, and books,
and interactive activities that kids can learn from.
And so there is an adaptive learning path
that adjusts to a child's level.
And then there is a library,
that has the thousands of lessons in it.
And today, we have a lot of new things
that we've been working on.
One is a big research study was just announced,
and I can go through that.
And then we also are announcing our teacher tools launch
in Khan Academy Kids version three.
- So a lot of good news here, so first of all,
tell us about the research study.
- Sure, so it was very important for us
to get an independent academic study on our program,
to test the effectiveness of it.
And we did a study with Professor David Arnold
from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst,
and he just released his results publicly.
And the study was a randomized control trial study,
which is the gold standard of academic studies.
Were there two groups of randomly selected students,
and one group gets the Khan Academy Kids intervention
and one get is the control group.
And so this was a study of four and five year olds
prior to entering kindergarten.
And they were from low income families
with an median annual income of about $24,000.
And so what we saw was that in a 10 week study,
the kids that were using Khan Academy Kids
saw substantial increases in their pre literacy skills.
So they were tested pre test,
with the test of preschool early literacy, TOPEL test.
And then post test and we saw the gains
were really substantial.
They were at the beginning of the study
about upper 34th percentile likely,
due to the effects of poverty.
And then after the 10 weeks of using Khan Academy Kids
for 20 minutes a day.
They were close to the national average at 47th percentile.
And so the size of these gains are substantial,
they're equivalent to what is typically found
in much more expensive intervention.
So as an example, the phonological gains
were comparable to those found in an intervention of 25,
one to one sessions with a professional tutor.
- I mean there's a lot of what you've just said
that I think is worth unpacking and underlining.
I mean, just the first thing is,
10 weeks is not a lot of time,
it's your point it was 20 minutes per day.
And that essentially closed the gap between the students
who are performing a good bit, below where they need to be.
And getting essentially to the national average,
if I heard that correctly.
- Right because students, particularly low income students,
often enter the first day of kindergarten
and they're already behind
in these critical pre literacy skills.
Which are things like recognizing letters of the alphabet,
understanding letter sounds, knowing their letter sounds,
and understanding phonological awareness skills,
being able to break down sounds and words and sentences.
So these are really critical to learning how to read.
So they start school behind and then they don't catch up.
- Now, I was super excited.
I mean, this is one of those things where I'm,
obviously this is part of Khan Academy's Khan Academy Kids.
But Caroline and her team
are a bit of a mini team on their own.
And so I sometimes I don't know about these things
until I her them, and it was really, really heartening.
You know, we always had an intuitive sense,
this was really valuable.
And I have to say, you know, Caroline,
I was telling you this before we got on the call.
I have a five and a half year old, as many folks know.
And, you know, people might say, oh,
Sal's five and a half year old, he must be super motivated,
in academics, no he likes to dance a lot,
and you know, and make potty humor.
And my wife says he got that from me.
I don't know, I think I'm quite sophisticated,
but he's been on it so much.
And, you know, so intuitively as a parent,
I got to say it feels right.
It is incredibly engaging for children,
but it's not your just your classic edutainment,
it is true standards aligned.
Tell us about kind of the work that's put in,
to make sure that it is standards aligned
and engaging at the same time.
- So Khan Academy Kids, each of our lessons
is aligned with national standards.
So for preschool, it's the headstart
early learning outcomes framework for literacy and math.
And then for kindergarten and first grade,
it's the Common Core Standards.
And we've worked with educators from the Stanford Ed school,
who are who specialized in early learning
and child development.
To make sure that our lessons are aligned with standards
and also taught in a way that reflects
how really experienced teachers teach these concepts
in the real world.
And what we've learned through looking at the research
on the learning of science learning,
is that technology has the power
to really further the learning for children
if it meets certain criteria.
So it has to be active hands on engaging learning,
it has to give kids specific real time feedback.
And then it also needs to adjust
to a child's individual level.
And that's what we've built Khan Academy Kids
around those principles.
- And I wanna emphasize to folks, this is all free,
this is all non for profit.
And I think a lot of people are skeptical
about things like this, they're like, there must be a catch.
I mean, people have thought that about Khan Academy,
but there's other resources out there,
that are more than happy to charge you,
you know, five dollar month, $10 a month, you know,
buy an app for this amount.
And, you know, anyone who doesn't believe me
go download the app and put it in front of a two, three,
four, five, six or seven year old and you will see,
not only does it work and keep them engaged
and is very good for them, but it has a lot more in it
than you would normally expect of an app.
I mean, you touched on it there's a ton of stories in there,
ton of activities.
- Yeah, that's what we've been hearing from parents
is that it's particularly during this time
of remote learning.
They are relieved to find something
that is so comprehensive.
And actually they can see their children building
their vocabulary, learning how to count.
I think we've heard we hear directly from parents
who are saying that they didn't realize
that technology could teach their child so much.
But they're in these desperate situations,
they found Khan Academy Kids,
and now after just a few days or weeks of using it,
they're realizing that their kids
are really building these skills.
And it's not only the academic skills
that are so important for this age,
as Sal was saying, his son is wants to play
And so all kids at this age want to play.
So the way that we approach learning is play based,
and entertaining, as well as engaging for kids.
Is like they wanna learn through stories and songs.
And that's those are really, through play
is how kids build some of those critical early numeracy,
vocabulary and literacy skills.
- And I do wanna remind folks, if you have questions,
start putting your questions on YouTube and Facebook
on the message boards.
We have team members looking at them,
I will get them to Caroline
over the course of our conversation.
But there's a few more things
I wanna just make sure I have a chance
to talk to Caroline about.
I mean, I do wanna double down on this.
You know, my wife is a physician and she was on physician,
some physician moms group.
And people were talking about this age group,
and people saying what should I use,
and a lot of parents were saying
a lot of physician moms were saying Khan Academy Kids,
it's incredible, it's free,
and it has way more than you think.
But there are other people who are saying,
oh, you know, this thing that I pay $10 a month for my wife
is like, I can't believe people are paying money.
When this is available, especially
and some of that stuff you pay money for.
It's not as engaging, it's not as standards aligned
and it doesn't have the types of efficacy studies
that you just talked about.
And look, you and I are not selling anything.
We are funded with philanthropic donations,
and I'll say please donate so that we can keep doing this.
But I you know, if you have young kids
you shouldn't have to pay for this.
And if you know people, the young kids make sure they know
that this stuff is available there for free.
You know, we don't have the marketing budget to tell,
you know, to put ads out on the world.
But this is there free and most high quality resource.
Caroline, tell us about the other,
I mean, there's the announcement around
some of your teacher tools, tell us about that.
And I actually also wanna make sure
people know about some of the first grade content
you've added recently as well.
Tell us about what you're doing for teachers.
- Sure, so right before school closures
at the beginning of March,
we launched a large update to Khan Academy Kids
that included all of the Common Core Standards
for first grade, ELA and math.
And then after school closures on the heels of that,
we decided to fast track our teacher tools update.
So we have just in the last week announced our teacher tools
and this was really important for us
because since the beginning teachers
have been Claromentis Khan Academy Kids
and they've actually been,
which was originally designed for families and parents.
So parents set up an account
and so teachers were actually using the home accounts
to set up their students.
But it really wasn't designed to support a whole class.
And so these teacher tools include,
easy ways for teachers to set up their class
with the teacher and students.
And then to look at search all of our lessons by standards,
so the standards that they're teaching tool,
they can find the relevant lessons,
and then assign lessons to their students.
And then after their students have done some of the lessons,
they can monitor how their students are doing.
So which students have completed these lessons,
how they're doing, what the scores are,
and they can look at the assignments by assignment,
or they can look at the scores by student as well.
- Go ahead.
- And this remote learning there, we've made it easy
so that teachers can just share a code with parents at home.
So that the students can learn at home,
on their devices at home,
and then the teachers can continue to send them assignments
and monitor their progress.
And this is so important in this age,
because students really need that connection
with their teacher, and the teachers know best about
what this their individual students need to be learning.
- Now, I wanna emphasize that,
one parents could also use that functionality.
And if you know, as I was a couple days ago,
I was like, where is this functionality
that Caroline and Michael had showed me?
And I was like, oh, I have to update the app (chuckles)
Reminder, update the app, and then you will see
this functionality and there is instructions.
Where can people find instructions, if they wanna understand
and how do they activate the teacher tools?
Or how do they assign things?
If you just go to khankids.org,
we will have a link to our teacher tools.
And we have modules like Quick Setup Guide
and things like that, to walk you through
each of the different steps.
- Yeah, and I gotta say, it's quite powerful,
you're able to just look at the entire library thing
by standards, by grade level,
and then just you can sample it very nicely
and say, oh, I can assign this to my students.
And, you know, we, I've been talking
to the my five year old teachers
and it is amazing, it's almost the exact, you know,
I think they're very thoughtful
about what my five year old needs to be doing right now.
But you know, but they're doing,
they were doing primarily those,
you know kind of classic worksheets.
But the stuff that y'all have done,
cover those same standards
in so much more of an engaging way and interactive way.
And he frankly wants you know, it's a bit of pulling teeth
to get my son to do even one worksheet on you know,
in theory that could take him like three minutes to do
but like, you know, a long versus short oh,
and I'm like, let's just doing it, just you know (laughs)
But same activity on Khan Academy Kids
he like wants to do it after kind of pull him off of it.
So, you know, if you can't tell I'm very excited
about the work of Caroline.
(laughing)
- We're really heartened in this time I think,
you know, there is risk of academic loss during this time,
without teachers and being in school,
and so this is why we're so motivated to do this work.
But we're so heartened to see all the kids and parents
that are writing into us
with stories about how they are just hungry to learn
and they love learning and they're sending us their stories
and they're sending us their photos of the activities
that they're doing.
- Yep, there is two questions here from Facebook,
Scott Yang says, hey, Sal,
why didn't you put the big bear behind you today?
You know what, Scott, I'm gonna do that,
I'm gonna go get Cody.
I was told I had to be on, I think it was CNN
and one member of our team says,
well, you know, Cody bear
looks like he's just kind of staring at you.
So that's why I took it off.
So I'm gonna get that but while,
I actually I'm gonna get that right now,
but I'm gonna give a question from Andrea Adams Midget
from Facebook.
How can I ensure, this is for Caroline,
how can I ensure my five and seven year old,
do not get addicted to tech
during this time of homeschooling online?
And I'm gonna go get Cody.
- Sure I look forward to seeing Cody,
that is a great question.
I think at the top of our minds,
we designed Khan Academy Kids
to make sure that it was developmentally appropriate.
And not to focus on using technology
for hours and hours on end.
It's designed for kids to be using
in five to 10 to 20 minute increments
depending on their age and what's appropriate for them.
So some ways that we've done that is, there is Cody
in designed activities,
so that after a lesson you are coming back out
and the lessons are paced to be short increments
with an introductory video
and then highly active interactive experiences.
And then after a few activities
will tell your kids to get up and sing this song
or dance and so, or go outside and take a look at the leaves
or something like that related to the story.
So we really are cognizant of not having it,
be an experience that just sucks your kids in.
Which a lot of adult technology as we all know
from social media, and all that is designed to be addictive.
So we're on the congress designed to be,
hands on, minds on learning, but not sucking your kids in.
You can kind of tell when they get that glazed over look
for things that are not active learning.
And so we designed it to be active and interactive.
Another thing is, I think just being we have come out
with some schedules for kids just as a starting point.
And every family is different and has different routines,
but having some structure to the day does help,
particularly with young children and them knowing okay,
we're gonna have reading time now, and then in half an hour,
we are gonna go outside and play.
And so understanding that regular routine
and that those transitions that are coming up
can really help.
We really advocate balancing not only the Khan Academy Kids
all time, but all the other learning
that they're doing outside and inside the house.
And we'd come up with some programs to support that as well,
we believe in offline learning and have some printables
on our website, as well as activities
that you can do with materials in your house.
And then Sophie and I from my team are hosting a circle time
where we encourage kids to get up and dance
and we read books with them and do interactive activities
that also highlight the types of learning
that are in Khan Kids.
- And I'll say, just as a parent,
and you know, this is literally something
that I observed this morning, and last night.
Is, you know, when my son is on a device,
he looks, you know, I don't know if you can see me
right now, but you know, he looks kind of like a fleet,
you know, he kind of has this like, you know,
when he is just like watching YouTube, he's just like this,
you know and no parent wants to see that,
on their kid too long
where he's just you know, staring at it.
But when he is doing Khan Academy Kids,
there is something about it,
where he's like, yes, and he is moving around,
and he is dancing.
And he is like, I don't know what it is,
but I definitely seeing him,
it's kind of feels like healthier behavior
than you know, the just like, you know, tablet, zombieism
that you sometimes see.
And, you know, what I would add is,
you know, no one is advocating to do this hours a day.
I think your research study was 20 minutes a day,
so, you know, I could imagine a couple of 10, 15 minutes
a day sessions, it's plenty to keep people progressing.
And if you need time, where your kids on the screen,
this is a very healthy screen time.
- Yeah, we've designed it so that Cody bear
the one behind Sal talks to your child,
and we've scripted the language, open ended question
so that kids that's why the kids are talking back to the app
and tell, you know, talking about, you know,
what their thinking and their learning.
- Yeah, there's just this morning,
we my son was doing the subjects of sentence
and you know, it was like, you know,
he wrote a bicycle to town and it had a picture of Cody
or a little cartoon of Cody riding a bicycle.
And I was like, you know, it says, what's the subject
and you could tell he was probably processing it,
cause the, you know, obviously was he,
and he's like Cody's riding a bike.
I guess Cody is he.
You know, it was just really powerful for me to see
that, process going on I actually thought,
you know being able to identify subjects
or kind of verbs in a sentence was a little bit beyond him
at the stage he is in.
But I was very, very impressed
with how the app delivered it.
So more questions here, so this is Dave Hankin from YouTube
says as a teacher, I'd like to know
how you recommend introducing Khan Academy Kids
to parent guardians, so they'll buy into regular use.
- As a teacher, I think now with our teacher tools,
it would be a lot easier
to get them to buy into regular use,
particularly if you send them an assignment or two a day.
Then they will know they're getting something
from their teacher and the students will be able
to see that assignment in there view,
and you'll be able to see which ones they've completed
and and how they've been done.
And doing these assignments is really quick,
you can just search by standard
or even just look through our library
and see which lessons are aligned
with what you would like to teach
and then just press a button and it's assigned.
- Yeah, I have to say, you know what,
what I've seen for my own children's school
is they've been doing a heroic job,
they have a learning management system.
And they, you know, they sent us printouts,
so but every morning me or my wife,
we have to go print out the worksheets,
then my child does them,
then we got to take pictures of them.
We texted, uploaded onto the learning manager,
it's quite stressful for us some days.
But you could imagine now with Khan Academy Kids,
you can as a teacher, assign it,
and parents and families and students
just have to get in the habit of like,
hey, in the morning, let's see what's assigned.
And then they can go through that,
they don't have to upload pictures
and all this other stuff that you have to do with worksheets
in this time of social distancing.
So yeah, I think as a teacher,
you have a lot of power to forget to get families on it.
So a related question Lauren Buyer from Facebook asks,
would any of the teacher platform tools
be useful for parents to use at home?
- Absolutely, so it particularly during this time
when all of you are home schoolers.
Absolutely, if you want to use Khan Academy Kids
teacher tools, all you need to do is set up an account
as a teacher.
Or if you're a parent, and you already have an account,
you can convert it from the parent section,
we have some documentation on our website on how to do that.
- From Facebook, Scott Yang asked,
and I can help answer this as well.
But Caroline, who helped you oh, actually,
I read this the wrong way, but I'll answer
what I read it the first way.
But Caroline, tell us a little bit about
how Khan Academy Kids was founded, is what Scott is asking.
I read funded the first time I was gonna answer that too.
But you go.
- Well, so I founded a company called Duck Duck Moose,
about 10 years ago with my husband, Michael.
And we created 21 educational apps
for mostly preschoolers and elementary school,
early elementary school.
And we did this independently for about eight years,
and then in 2016, we joined Khan Academy.
So we have been part of Khan Academy since 2016,
and focused on now on developing Khan Academy Kids.
Although the Duck Duck Moose apps are still out there,
and they've been downloaded,
I think over 60 or 70 million times.
- Yeah, for I've oftentimes espoused
my benevolent alien theory,
that benevolent aliens are using Khan Academy
as a vector to prepare humanity for first contact.
And when Caroline and Michael reached out,
yes, yes, it's been a while now four years ago and said,
we you know, they all had a presentation.
It was kind of hilarious
and I was like, no, no, I know all about you all.
I'm your biggest fan, my kids are, you know,
been using Duck Duck Moose.
I've always told the Khan Academy team,
the only time we're ever gonna get into early learning
is if we can be anywhere remotely
as good as Duck Duck Moose team.
And the fact that y'all were in the office,
I was like, why are you here?
And then you and Michael said, well, we'd actually
like to donate our organization to Khan Academy.
And I was like, alright benevolent aliens, thank you,
we get the message.
- Yeah, to your earlier point about
how we're completely free.
We couldn't do that when we were not a nonprofit,
and when we were independent.
And so to us, it was so important for us
to be able to focus on the deep education for kids
and not to interrupt kids with in app purchases
and subscriptions while they're learning.
- And to give you, Michael and the team, a lot of credit,
you had other financial options
where you guys could have gotten bought out
and it could have been very, very lucrative for y'all.
But this is something that you just decided as humanitarians
that you wanted to, you want your life's work
to be accessible to as many people as possible.
And so Caroline, Michael and her team,
they passed up a lot of money
that a lot of us would have thought twice about
in order to make Khan Academy Kids not for profit ever.
And, you know, we were able to, then obviously,
they were able to donate their organization to us
which was frankly worth many millions,
arguably 10s of millions of dollars.
And, but then we had to go find funders
and that's where at the time was called the Omidyar Network,
Pierre Omidyar, Pierre and Pam Omidyar,
founder of eBay, famously.
His foundation was one of the major funders
that allowed us to do this work.
And then the Windsong Trust.
Those are the two really big funders
that allow us to this work.
But once again, we're also running it as a deficit
at the Khan Academy Kids level.
So especially if you're a parent,
and you've really enjoyed it, please think about donating.
And if you're a corporation, or foundation,
please think about helping us to support this work.
So from YouTube, Wendy Oliver.
This is more of a comment, but it's a good comment.
The offline is a great feature for those families
who are remote or do not have access to the internet.
And Caroline, tell us more about the offline functionality,
and you know what devices can this be used on
if people just have a cell phone, is that sufficient?
- Yes, so we designed Khan Academy Kids to be accessible
as widely as possible on Android and iOS,
as well as across different devices, phones and tablets.
And it was very important for us to design
so that folks with intermittent Wi-Fi could use it.
So we have an offline mode, where a substantial portion
of our content in early literacy and math can be accessed
when you're offline.
So you can use all of those lessons,
for the complete library and the learning path.
You do need an internet connection
just because of the thousands of lessons,
there is no way that we could pack it into a mobile app,
nor would you want it all on your device.
But we've also designed the technology
so that it downloads in small packets
when you do need new lessons for your learning path
and then it purchased them.
So it's really designed to be efficient
so that anybody on any devices can use them.
- Yeah, and I think that's, you know, does double download,
you know, we really obviously, the whole reason
why Khan Academy exists, Khan Academy Kids exists
is to level the playing field as much as possible.
And there's all sorts of inequity right now
in device access,
and we're trying to work with others to solve it.
But Khan Academy Kids goes, arguably further I mean,
the Khan Academy main app, so to speak
also has some ways to download content,
but y'all do a really great job.
It's as long as you have at least a reasonable smartphone
and have some time to download some of the materials
that that you can go pretty far.
There is a question about from Susan Garcia Dominguez
on YouTube.
Is it available on laptops or is it only tablets and phones?
- It is only on mobile devices right now,
and the reason for that is that we found in testing
with young children that the form factor of mobile devices
where they have the touchscreen
that they can directly manipulate
is much more effective for learning.
It's tough for the two year old and three year olds,
to navigate, before they can read on a computer
with a with a mouse.
- Yeah, and even the five and six year olds.
I mean, they can do it kind of, but it's,
and that leads to another question from Nikio on YouTube.
I feel like I know a lot of these folks
cause we have good question askers who show up here,
Susanna, Nikio, Scott, almost every day.
But hi Sal, Caroline one of the best studying methods
while simultaneously using Khan Academy.
You know, I'll interpret that is how does Khan Academy Kids,
you know, transition to Khan Academy.
I have a view there, but I'd love your take on
what it is today and what could be in the future.
- Yeah, I think right now, it's, we cover up
through the end of first grade
and then Khan Academy does take
we're hoping to scale up through
the end of second grade at least.
And then Khan Academy takes over from there,
but we're building those those critical skills,
in pre literacy and math before you get into Khan Academy.
- Yeah, and if you go to Khan Academy,
there is content on kindergarten, first grade,
second grade content, but it does require to use a mouse.
And it has things like select all that apply.
And so we view that content, especially in a world
where Khan Academy Kids exists,
that's valuable if you're a fourth grader, a third grader,
or if you have a student who needs to remediate
some of that content or review some of that content.
But ideally, if you are, if you're working on
first grade standards, or below Khan Academy Kids
is the place to go.
And yeah, I hope second grade and you know,
third grade could be an interesting thing too,
if we have the resources to do it,
to think about cause Khan Academy Kids really is,
I think hitting the sweet spot for all those kids needs.
I see that my own son when I put them on Khan Academy,
they're using the mouse, you know, the motor skills
to kind of click on the radio button
is a little bit more difficult,
than and obviously with Khan Academy Kids, yes, no problem.
No problem at all.
See more questions I'm getting on,
so there is the other questions.
This is from Madeleine Bordwell on youtube
I love that you see the Super Simple songs
their interactive component cheers to you and your team.
And that's a good reason to talk more about all the content
and the partners that we've been able to (mumbles).
- We're so grateful for the partners,
a lot of our content is homegrown.
So we have our own books that are illustrated
by our own illustrators, but we collaborate
with children's book authors to author original
an original series of books.
And then we also collaborate with Super Simple Songs,
which is an amazing animation company that has,
I think, I don't know how many billions of views on YouTube
but favorite nursery rhymes and great animations
coupled with these songs.
And so we integrate them into Khan Academy Kids
and then make them interactive.
So we'll use the Muffin Man song
and then have children do activities around that.
In addition, we partner with National Geographic
and bellwether which have nonfiction books on animals
and nature and so that's how we have
some of our rocket science content.
- So more questions here, Maria, he says from YouTube
Sal, are you okay, you look tired.
- (chuckles) Are you okay?
- I think it's just irrelevant
because Caroline looks so energetic and well lit.
And yeah, I'm looking at myself now, and I'm like,
yeah, that guy, he is something.
I think it's all relative I think
what you don't see Carolina I'm fine.
- Is my background, I do circle time here,
so I have to look weak and you have a lot of energy.
- I think Maria is onto something
I need to introspect a little bit.
Rusika tell him Sadie from YouTube,
I literally did my Khan Academy homework right now,
love the detail videos.
All that good to hear that Rusika.
Let's see other there is someone, there is folks
Scott asking a lot of questions.
Hey, Caroline would you like to invite Sophie
into a live stream and Sal someday?
I guess supporters yes, we'd love to have Sophie.
- We would love Sophie everywhere.
- She will only reinforce me looking
like I'm tired and aging.
- Oh, yeah, she's another level.
She does all of our parent and teacher webinars as well.
- Marie, you've confirmed some of my insecurities,
so I don't know, I'm feeling a little.
I sometimes like to think that,
I'm more young and sprite than I am.
Let's see, there is a lot of questions here,
but first, we're out of time.
I'm always I'm having a good time with these conversations,
until someone points out that I look old and tired.
But Caroline, tell us a little bit more.
I mean, what are your hopes, I mean, just to finish this up,
what are your hopes and dreams for Khan Academy Kids?
- Yeah, I think we are just grateful right now
that we have a role to play in our way.
To help families and teachers
during this time in particular,
so we're kind of just very, very focused
on the current moment and everything that we can do.
This new teacher tools is extremely exciting for us to see
we are already seeing districts and teachers use it,
from California all the way across to New Jersey.
And I think we were just at the beginning
of our classroom entry, and we'll continue that.
As well as with new features for teachers and classrooms,
and then we're very excited to continue with the content.
We're seeing the kids grow and they wanna grow more with us,
and so, continuing on to second grade.
- Awesome, well, I just wanna thank everyone
I wanna remind everyone go try, Khan Academy Kids,
even if you don't have early learners at home,
proselytize it tell other people
because it's a shame that, anyway,
tell them about Khan Academy (mumbles)
Tell so many families, especially families of need
that don't realize that there are resources out there,
for them and their children
and for their children's teachers to keep folks learning
and not only are they free,
but there's more research studies done
on Khan Academy and Khan Academy Kids,
that almost all of those for pay products,
that frankly, are spending probably more on marketing
than they are on product development and content development
and research and development.
So get the word out, it's really a shame
that people aren't accessing these things,
or that they are paying for things that are inferior,
frankly.
And but I wanna remind everyone,
the way that we're able to do this,
and kind of do what's right on a principled level
is through donation.
So if you're benefiting you, your family
or if you just want other kids around the country
and eventually the world to benefit from Khan Academy Kids.
If you, your children, your students
or you want other people around the world
to benefit from Khan Academy.
Please think about making a donation
it makes a huge difference.
You know, one way to think about it,
if you were to go to you know, a not as good
for pay product, it could easily cost $10 a month
five dollars a month.
If you're able to support Khan Academy,
those types of levels.
It makes a difference and allows us
to support a lot lot more folks.
So thank you so much for joining Caroline, thank you so much
you, Michael and your entire team.
Really amazing work and, you know,
thank you for dedicating your life to this.
This is you did not have to do this,
this is not the way that the world normally works.
But y'all, decided to do what's right for frankly, humanity.
- Yeah, we're grateful for the opportunity.
- Thanks, everyone, and we'll see you all next week.
We have a lot of really good guests next week.
We'll and you'll we'll be sending out emails and stuff.
But you know, we have a really cool folks
like Angela Duckworth and other folks next week
to talk about grit and resilience.
So as see y'all later, have a great weekend
and take care of yourself.
Clearly Maria thinks I need to myself.
(laughs)