Sal Khan
Salman Amin "Sal" Khan (born October 11, 1976) is an American educator and the founder of Khan Academy, a free online non-profit educational platform and an organization with which he has produced over 6,500 video lessons teaching a wide spectrum of academic subjects, originally focusing on mathematics and science.[1] He is also the founder of Khan Lab School, a brick-and-mortar private school in Mountain View, California.[2]
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| Born | Salman Amin Khan October 11, 1976 Metairie, Louisiana, U.S. |
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| Board member of | Aspen Institute |
| Spouse | Umaima Marvi (m. 2004) |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives | Abdul Wahab Khan (grandfather) |
As of February 2023[update], the Khan Academy channel on YouTube has 7.7 million subscribers, and its videos have been viewed more than 2 billion times.[3] In 2012, Time named Khan in its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.[4] In the same year, Forbes magazine featured Khan on its cover, with the story "$1 Trillion Opportunity."[5]
Early life and family
Salman Amin Khan was born on October 11, 1976 to Bengali Muslim parents Fakhrul Amin Khan (d. 1990) and Masuda Khan in Metairie, Louisiana.[6] His father was a physician,[7][8] and originally hailed from the village of Rahmatpur in Babuganj, Barisal District, Bangladesh. They are descended from Rahmat Khan, a Pathan chieftain who was killed in conflict with Raja Kandarpanarayan Rai of Chandradwip in the 16th century.[9] Khan's grandfather, Abdul Wahab Khan was the 3rd Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan. His mother, Masuda Khan, is from Murshidabad in West Bengal, India.[6][10]
Education
He attended Grace King High School, where, as he recalls, "a few classmates were fresh out of jail and others were bound for top universities."[11] He was a cartoonist for the high school's newspaper.[12] Khan took upper-level mathematics courses at the University of New Orleans while he was in high school and graduated as valedictorian in 1994.[13][14]
He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), graduating with Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Course 6 (electrical engineering and computer science), and another bachelor's degree in Course 18 (mathematics), in 1998.[15] In his final year, Khan was the president of the "Senior Gift Committee," a philanthropy program of the graduating class.[16]
Khan also holds a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.[17]
Career
In 2002, Khan was a summertime intern at PARC. From 2003 to late 2009, he worked as a hedge fund analyst at Connective Capital Management.[18][19][20]
Khan Academy
In 2004, Khan began tutoring his cousin, Nadia, in mathematics over the internet using Yahoo!'s Doodle notepad.[21] When other relatives and friends sought his tutoring, he moved his tutorials to YouTube, where he created an account on November 16, 2006.[22]
The popularity of his educational videos on the video-sharing website prompted Khan to quit his job as a financial analyst in late 2009.[23] He moved his focus to developing his YouTube channel, Khan Academy, full-time with the aid of close friend Josh Gefner.[18] Khan subsequently received sponsorship from Ann Doerr, the wife of John Doerr.[24]
His videos received worldwide interest from both students and non-students, with more than 458 million views in the first number[quantify] of years.[23]
Khan outlined his mission as to "accelerate learning for students of all ages. With this in mind, we want to share our content with whoever may find it useful." Khan plans to extend the "free school" to cover topics such as English literature.[25]
Khan published a book about Khan Academy and education goals titled The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined.[26]
Khan Academy, initially a tool for students, added the Coach feature in 2012, promoting the connection of teachers with students through videos and monitor tools.[23] In 2012, Khan received the American Academy of Achievement’s Gold Medal.[27][28] In 2014, Khan received the 19th Annual Heinz Award in the Human Condition category.[29]
In 2015, Khan announced that Khan Academy was partnering with the College Board to create free practice resources for the SAT test.[30]
Khan believes that supplementing traditional classroom education with the technology being developed by his Academy can improve the effectiveness of teachers by freeing them from traditional lectures and giving them more time for instruction specific to individual students' needs.[31]
Stanford AI researcher Andrew Ng has named Khan as a huge inspiration for the founding of Coursera, one of the first massive open online course (MOOC) platforms.[32]
Khan Lab School
Khan's pedagogical idea is that students learn better when they can manage the process of acquiring knowledge independently and at their own pace. They should then work in teams to apply the knowledge they have learned. This concept is known as flipped classroom.[33] His approach to learning incorporates elements of Benjamin Bloom's Mastery Learning.[34] This Personalized Learning method is tested at his Khan Lab School, founded in 2014.[35]
Schoolhouse.world
In early 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, Khan launched Schoolhouse: a free non-profit initiative to provide small-group tutoring for students worldwide through Zoom meetings.[36]
Schoolhouse certifications, developed in partnership with the University of Chicago, test students’ mastery of subjects and certify their knowledge. MIT and Case Western Reserve University have since signed on.[37]
Awards
In 2016, Khan received the fourth-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, the Padma Shri, from the President of India.[38] On May 27, 2021, Khan received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Harvard University.[39]
Personal life
Khan is married to a Pakistani physician, Umaima Marvi. The couple live with their children in Mountain View, California.[40][41][42]
Khan has said about his beliefs:
"If you believe in trying to make the best of the finite number of years we have on this planet (while not making it any worse for anyone else), think that pride and self-righteousness are the cause of most conflict and negativity, and are humbled by the vastness and mystery of the Universe, then I'm the same religion as you."[43]
References
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- ^ "Khan Academy". YouTube. Retrieved February 1, 2023.
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- ^ "$1 Trillion Opportunity". Forbes.
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- ^ Ahsan, Kingkar (June 10, 2010). . Prothom Alo (in Bengali). Dhaka. Archived from the original on February 9, 2018.
- ^ Sarkar, Anjali (January 18, 2012). . Prothom Alo (in Bengali). Dhaka. Archived from the original on August 3, 2020.
- ^ Ahmed, Siraj Uddin (2010). বরিশাল বিভাগের ইতিহাস (in Bengali). Vol. 1. Dhaka: Bhaskar Prakashani.
- ^ Gear Views (July 11, 2015). "Salman Khan's message: about bangla Khan Academy". YouTube. Archived from the original on December 15, 2021.
- ^ Sengupta, Somini (December 4, 2011). "Khan Academy Blends Its YouTube Approach With Classrooms". The New York Times. Retrieved March 24, 2014.
- ^ "Tension in an accelerating system and pie in the face". YouTube. Archived from the original on December 15, 2021. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
- ^ "Alumni Spotlights - Salman Khan". www.unoalumni.com.
- ^ Tan, Sarah (May 18, 2013). "Khan Academy founder returns home as big name in U.S. school reform". The Times Picayune. Retrieved May 23, 2017.
- ^ Solomon, Ethan A. (December 6, 2011). "Sal Khan Is Commencement Speaker". The Tech.
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- ^ Kaplan, David A. (August 24, 2010). . Money. CNN. Archived from the original on December 23, 2010. Retrieved June 30, 2012.
- ^ a b Kowarski, Ilana (June 6, 2010). "College 2.0: A Self-Appointed Teacher Runs a One-Man 'Academy' on YouTube – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education". Chronicle.
- ^ Colbert, Stephen (Host) (2011). The Colbert Report. Colbert Nation. Retrieved June 30, 2012.
- ^ Khan, Sal. "Sal Khan". LinkedIn. Retrieved September 28, 2014.
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- ^ "Khan academy". YouTube. November 16, 2006. Retrieved August 26, 2010.
- ^ a b c Sen, Ashish Kumar (June 28, 2010). "Bookmark: The Prof Who Keeps His Shirt On". Outlook India.
- ^ Bower, Amanda (December 16, 2011). "Substitute teacher". The Australian.
- ^ Temple, James (December 14, 2009). "Salman Khan, math master of the Internet – SFGate". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved August 26, 2010.
- ^ Khan, Salman 'Sal' (2012). Talking about his new book. AirTalk (radio interview). Khan Adcademy. Retrieved December 29, 2012.
- ^ "Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement". www.achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement.
- ^ "2012 Summit Highlights Photo".
Salman Khan, pioneer of online education, receives the Gold Medal from Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
- ^ "The Heinz Awards :: Salman Khan". www.heinzawards.net.
- ^ "College Board and Khan Academy team up to ease access to new SAT". www.insidehighered.com. June 2, 2015.
- ^ Temple, James (December 14, 2009). "Salman Khan, math master of the Internet". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved December 23, 2009.
- ^ Ng, Andrew. "Origins of the Modern MOOC" (PDF).
- ^ Future Talk #9, Redesigning Math Education, retrieved February 20, 2023
- ^ "Salman Khan". www.heinzawards.org. Retrieved February 20, 2023.
- ^ Weller, Chris. "The founder of Khan Academy built the ultimate school for kids to work and play together — take a look inside". Business Insider. Retrieved February 20, 2023.
- ^ "Free Online Tutoring — Schoolhouse". schoolhouse.world. Retrieved June 11, 2022.
- ^ Barnard, Brennan. "Tutor Your Way To A College Acceptance (While Doing Good)". Forbes. Retrieved June 11, 2022.
- ^ . Archived from the original on April 11, 2022. Retrieved January 3, 2021.
- ^ Salman Amin Khan Doctor of Laws, Join the Celebration (May 27, 2021). "Honoring the Class of 2021". Harvard.edu. Retrieved May 29, 2021.
- ^ "Education 2.0: The Khan Academy". Dawn. April 26, 2011. Retrieved November 6, 2012.
- ^ "Meet Sal Khan, Khan Academy". jointventure.org. Retrieved August 28, 2015.
- ^ . Biography. Archived from the original on August 13, 2017. Retrieved August 28, 2015.
- ^ "Frequently Asked Questions - Info Pages". sites.google.com.
External links
- Salman Khan on Charlie Rose
- Appearances on C-SPAN