Refining Education: Sal Khan, Founder of Khan Academy
Reflection:
After listening to the NPR podcast featuring Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, I found myself mind-blown by how his idea that started off to help his cousins learn math evolved into this global instrument for quality education. The episode offered not just Sal Khan's story, but also a message that is touching to every teacher there is and will be (even if they didn't listen to the NPR podcast).
From Tutoring to a Global Classroom
The idea that the Khan Academy was founded to be small scale project, with a family-based audience stood out to me the most. Sal Khan started out by recording video lessons to help his cousins learn math, and overtime the video lessons started reaching a wider audience, and what we're left with today, is the Khan Academy. Which started and remains free today which only shows the academy's goal to educate, not make a profit.
Final Thoughts
Listening to Sal Khan's story, there was a lot of information that surprised me; before listening to the podcast, I have only ever heard of the Khan Academy so basically everything was knew to me, about the founder and his beliefs starting the academy. As someone who values education and dreams of becoming a teacher, Sal Khan's story really touched the teacher in my heart. How he built the Khan Academy to move past the differences from the past and refine education to help even the playing field with all types of students, with their strengths and weaknesses.
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