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Khan Academy on 60 Minutes

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Its amazing to see Sal Khan and Khan Academy getting all the press and attention they're getting. Given they propelled the latest ed-tech revolution... Codecademy, Udacity, Udemy, Coursera, Bloc, and countless other startups owe a lot to Sal for a lot of inspiration.

Exciting times for life-long learners.

This will do wonders for the home-schoolers and allow kids to have flexible school hours. You could also have all of the students in one big location and only the teachers move as students need them, except for situations that require specialized locations. ie gym, band, art, lunch.

I actually believe that this will be our future. Imagine having your kids grow up in a world where you're learning with children around the world with the best education possible. The cost of this school would be very low or even free.

The cost of tuition and the continuation of the deterioration of the American school system should raise giant red flags for anyone who's concerned about our future as a society. Anyone with kids should be concerned. Luckily the internet is not all about social networks. There's still an amazing repository of information up for the grabs.

This is already happening informally with wikipedia and other wikis out there. As a developer (after basic comp sci courses) a large portion of my education is through online forums. If I can hold on to a steady job with information found on the net, then something is indeed working.

I'm actually developing an art education site (www.artjutsu.com) and would love to see how far it goes. I'm considering submitting to ycombinator, but I'm the only one on this project. I see that they don't really like to fund a project with only one member.

I had said the same for bringing high quality education to rural/3rd world places like africa via KA and was voted down because people were balking at the idea that they would have the ability to get quality inet access to consume this education.

I still think this is the future.

I already have my 7 year old doing Kahn Academy classes - and my 8 month old will have her first experience with Maths via KA.

The segment on Khan Academy was a good one. Khan's vision of a free world-class education seems like it has real potential at home and in school systems if they adopt it. I wish it was around when I was a kid.

I'm most excited to see them iterate on the videos themselves.

The videos are already excellent, of course, but there's incredible potential to increase their production value. By combining a director's ability to grab and hold on to viewer's attention, with the narrative power of a great writer, hundreds of concepts could be explained in ways that were both subtle and highly compelling.

... the thought of Khan Academy collaborating with, say, Pixar, sends shivers down my spine.

I like Khan Academy.

However, the way the story is told:

"Hedge fund analyist makes something Gates' kids use"

seems staged.

I am probably wrong, life imitates art.

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