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Khan Academy is an educational organisation that produces short educational videos on over 5,000 different subjects that act as lectures. Khan Academy also has instructional resources that improve learning with these films, including practise problems and exercises for educators. Khan Academy enables education to be customised, providing students with an ability to self-pace through lessons that are scaled to their present level of comprehension, and to drive them further only after they have mastered a subject in a class. In 2004, Khan Academy was established by Salman Khan, who used the initial videos to help tutor one of his cousins in genuine and humble roots.
To provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere.
To provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere.
Khan Academy as a Learner-Centered Tool
Khan Academy enables students to self-pace through content and to scale material based on student success, something that in a conventional classroom is unlikely. Students may be aligned with "coaches" who may be their teacher in the classroom, a parent, a mentor, or a peer-tutor. The coach will monitor the progress of students and participate and make recommendations based on the progress of students. For example , if a student does not seem to be mastering a subject, a coach will assess if the student has completely watched the lesson, completed a sufficient number of practise problems, etc. It is a great tool for flipped classrooms, customised learning, and blended learning to ensure that you meet the learning needs of ALL of your students.
Learning Activities
Learning Activities
Elementary School (Grades K-5): Assign Khan Academy videos for students falling behind on a given topic or for students who want to go beyond topics being currently taught in the classroom. For example, if a student in your class is struggling with addition and subtraction, you might have them watch the video “Addition and subtraction within 20” and complete some of the practice problems from that after. Alternatively, if a student has mastered that before the rest of the class, you may move them on to “Addition and subtraction within 1000.”
Middle School (Grades 6-8): Flip your classroom: assign Khan Academy material or missions to students and use class time to complete additional practice and exercises, answer questions, and build upon what they learned in the videos.
High School (Grades 9-12): For a Science course: have students browse Khan Academy topics under Health & Medicine. Have each student give a short presentation in the class about what they learned, and how it connects to two concepts that have been discussed in class.
Higher Education (and all grade levels): Challenge your students to watch several Khan Academy videos (on any topic) and then make their own for a given assigned topic that a Khan Academy video does not exist for, as opposed to writing a paper or giving a PowerPoint presentation.
How to Use Khan Academy
How to Use Khan Academy
Go to www.khanacademy.org
To use without registering: Select a topic from the “Subjects” menu or do a search for a topic of your choosing
To use with registering: Click “Sign Up” and register for an account. You may sign-up with your Facebook, Google login, or email address.
For teachers – Add a class:
Click your name in the top right hand corner
Select “Add Students”
Click “create your class”
Give your class a name
Choose a mission for your class. If, for example, you are teaching Algebra I, select the Algebra I mission.
Add students by email or by Khan Academy account username, or share your class code with your students to add the class themselves.
5. For students: Students can utilize Khan Academy to explore material, practice material with problems, or work through a mission, which is content curated for students to work through a specific topic or grade-level at their own pace.
Under a topic, click “Explore”, “Practice”, or “Mission”
Explore
Students can explore videos of different topics by clicking links under “Topics” or by using the search function and watching corresponding videos and lessons.
Practice
Students can practice problems within a topic by clicking on “Practice.” There is a scratch pad if a student needs to write or draw to help solve a problem, and there are also embedded videos if a student does not know how to solve a practice problem.
Mission
Missions guide learners through self-curated material for a specific grade level or subject. Students can work through missions at their own pace, and only move on once they have mastered a less
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