by Brittany Corona, the Foundry
Idaho has established the first statewide pilot of the Khan Academy. Thanks to donations from the J. A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation, nearly $1.5 million in grants will be awarded to 47 Idaho schools for technology, professional development, and research. With this private donation, 10,000 students in nearly four dozen schools across Idaho will be using the Khan Academy in the 2013–2014 school year. The Khan Academy believes that the focus on mastery learning allows students to move at their own pace, creating ownership and responsibility in learning. The Khan Academy began when Sal Khan, an MIT and Harvard graduate, began recording math lectures and delivering them to his cousin who was struggling with traditional learning techniques. He eventually began posting the lectures online—after getting over his initial concern that “YouTube is for cats playing pianos, not serious mathematics.”
http://blog.heritage.org/2013/05/19/idahos-khan-academy-initiative-embracing-educational-technology/
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