by: Bianca Da Silva, College Classes
The president of the Khan Academy, Shantanu Sinah, will be taking to the stage at the West Michigan Policy Forum to discuss education and how this subject should be tackled in the near future. The Academy was established as a way to reach out to children who might have found it difficult to keep up with their school curriculum, and the success of these videos have put the institution into the limelight and drawn a lot of attention to its aims. Technology is one of the main focuses of the Academy, and the organization is attempting to use it to benefit students all over the country. According to Sinah, the aim of incorporating technology into the classroom is to personalize the learning experience that students receive at school. “Students right now are kind of forced into a system where they’re pushed forward in almost assembly line model in their classrooms,” he stated, “You can use technology to personalize the instruction and target what their individual needs are. You can fill those gaps and, when you do that and when you empower students to do that, they really run with it. The learning is so much more productive.”
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