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  • - Okay, I think third time did the trick.

  • Sorry for all the stops and starts.

  • As I mentioned, this is all very impromptu

  • and very improvisational, but yes,

  • now even this dashboard that I'm using

  • says that I'm online on at least Facebook and YouTube.

  • So I will just keep going and power through this

  • because I think there's a little bit of a delay

  • between when I'm starting and stopping.

  • So it's I'm pressing start, it starts,

  • and then everyone says it's working,

  • but then by that time I thought it wasn't working

  • and then I started again.

  • But I think we're good, I'm just gonna

  • keep powering through this.

  • I'll start over.

  • This, for those of you all who are wondering where I'm am,

  • I'm in a walk-in closet off of my master bedroom

  • because out here in California we have these

  • stay in place orders, and as I mentioned,

  • this is the walk-in closet

  • where Khan Academy all got started.

  • I have spent a year in this walk-in closet back in 2010,

  • so I'm prepared to spend at least many weeks

  • or months in this walk-in closet if necessary.

  • But as you can imagine, a lot going on.

  • For those of you that this is the first time

  • that you're coming to this livestream,

  • the whole point of it is we obviously

  • have these mass school closures going on

  • and we, at Khan Academy we find ourselves

  • in a somewhat unique situation of realizing

  • that this is what Khan Academy to some degree was made for

  • even though we've never really thought

  • of this circumstance actually happening.

  • And this is clearly a very, situation,

  • I don't think anyone would want this,

  • the ideal circumstance is that the schools are open,

  • Academy is somehow a substitute for live experiences.

  • We've always imagined them being in partnership

  • with incredible teachers and classrooms

  • and you have your peers and you can liberate the classroom

  • to then go to higher order tasks.

  • But we've also imagined Khan Academy

  • being used in parts of the world

  • where students might not have access to school

  • or might not have access to certain,

  • to instruction or curriculum material of certain qualities.

  • And we now find ourselves in a situation

  • where most of the world is going to find ourselves

  • in that second category.

  • So a couple of things are happening.

  • I've been taking questions from parents,

  • teachers, students, I would love

  • to get more student questions actually,

  • I know there's some concern about the cancellation,

  • delays of some of the SAT administration tests.

  • On Friday, we released some schedules

  • for students of different ages,

  • and one thing that we recommended for sure

  • for high school students is to

  • use our official SAT practice.

  • Obviously you can use us for math.

  • You can use us for the sciences,

  • you can use us for the social sciences,

  • but we also have the official SAT practice

  • that we partner with the College Board on.

  • And even if you aren't taking the SAT

  • or even if now your SAT has been delayed,

  • I encourage you to think about using that

  • because it covers math, reading, and writing,

  • and it'll really make sure that those skills don't atrophy

  • even if you aren't taking the SAT any time.

  • And if you do end up taking the SAT in the next three,

  • four months, it'll be real useful.

  • But what I would love to do is make this as interactive

  • as possible, I'd love to take questions from all of you.

  • I see, let's see if I can scroll down here.

  • I got a question, I'm a foreign student

  • who's aiming for a mathematics course in the USA,

  • what courses exactly should I examine in Khan Academy site?

  • Are linear algebra and multivariable calculus needed

  • and what tests I need to take?

  • Well, Muhammad, it depends what level

  • you're coming into the United States.

  • I just saw a comment that Sal is getting old.

  • We all get old.

  • It depends what level.

  • If you're coming at the college level,

  • you would probably have to take something

  • like the SAT, there might also be things

  • like the TOEFL which is measuring,

  • I think it's Test of English Language Fluency

  • or Fluency Language, something like that.

  • I forget the acronym.

  • But for those tests actually the level

  • of mathematics you need is not overly advanced.

  • For the SAT, you really, the level of math,

  • you really have to master algebra two,

  • and know it well, there's some tricky questions on there,

  • but for the most part they're algebra two questions.

  • And similar for the reading comprehension level.

  • Things like linear algebra or multivariable calculus,

  • which are typically a freshman or sophomore level course

  • in college in the United States are definitely not required

  • for entry level into college.

  • Obviously if you're thinking about graduate studies,

  • linear algebra's especially tends to be applicable

  • in a lot of the technical fields.

  • Let's see, other people are asking questions.

  • Is Khan Academy in Mountain View closed as well?

  • Yes, we have shut down the office.

  • It's actually by law now, unless you work

  • in our area at a healthcare facility or a grocery store

  • or gas station, something that's considered essential,

  • they are telling folks not to go to work.

  • All right.

  • So hi Sal, I'm a, this is from Basil,

  • hi Sal, I'm a 17-year-old high school student

  • and I have been teaching for around three years

  • for physics, chem, and math, do you recommend

  • any sources to improve someone's ability to teach?

  • That's a great question, I've never had quite that question.

  • Think the number one thing is really mastery

  • of the material yourself.

  • I think even for myself when I first learned

  • a lot of that material in high school and college,

  • I was a good student and I understood it quite well,

  • but it would be great if,

  • when I started doing Khan Academy, it would,

  • and sorry, for the team, all these Slack questions

  • are coming across and it's making it

  • a little bit disruptive.

  • I'll look at the iPad in a second.

  • But to learn how to may be practice teaching better,

  • obviously there's nothing like teaching itself.

  • I highly recommend trying to make resources

  • that cover that material and I think you'll find

  • that you'll learn the material a lot deeper.

  • Let's see, I'm gonna go to the questions

  • that the team is looking at.

  • Okay.

  • And so I'm looking at the doc, team.

  • And so I'm looking at the top of it.

  • So, yeah, and what's going on right now

  • is our team is looking at the various streams

  • and then they are curating the questions

  • for look at, at this iPad, so there's a lot

  • of home brew things going on here.

  • But I'm happy to continue to answer questions.

  • I will look at the stream that I see on this dashboard

  • and see what other questions people have.

  • Let's see, people have asked,

  • it seems like the quality is subpar, my apologies for that.

  • I will try to, before tomorrow,

  • try to find a place in the house

  • that hopefully has better quality Wi-Fi.

  • I have four full bars here, but I guess

  • that's not doing the trick.

  • This is my first day that I'm doing this at home,

  • so it'll hopefully get better every day.

  • So please ask any questions, the team is looking at it,

  • they will update this doc that I'm working from.

  • I don't see any of the questions just yet.

  • So one question J.R. Gilroy asks,

  • will you be leading a nationwide SAT, ACT study session?

  • A great question, J.R., we, as part of our effort

  • to support everyone, we are thinking about things like that.

  • As you can tell, even for this livestream

  • we're trying to figure out the technology,

  • but I hope that over the, especially if this school shutdown

  • situation is protracted, if it keeps going,

  • I hope that we can find ways to support you

  • in multiple subjects and SAT especially is one area

  • that we might able to do either livestreams

  • or large-scale video conferencing

  • and help answer folks' questions.

  • So I hope that we can go do something like that.

  • Any chance can students access Khan Academy

  • through gaming platforms?

  • Unfortunately, that does not exist just yet.

  • Let's see,

  • other questions.

  • Okay, Niurka Zapata says I've been assisting

  • Khan students around,

  • not just students, it's been helpful,

  • I'm so happy I'm one of your ambassadors.

  • Oh, so for those of y'all who don't know,

  • we have a thousand teacher ambassadors around the world

  • who are teachers but they've been super users

  • of Khan Academy, and they're also in their region

  • not just helping their own students use Khan Academy

  • but they're helping teachers help their students

  • use Khan Academy, so thank you Niurka

  • for being one of those teacher ambassadors.

  • And one of the things that we're brainstorming here

  • at Khan Academy and we would love ideas

  • from all of you and especially our teacher ambassadors

  • are ways that teachers,

  • and I know teachers are also sorting out their own lives

  • right now, their kids are at home.

  • They're trying to figure out how to support

  • their own students.

  • But if this crisis or if the school shutdown continues,

  • I hope we can find ways to work with teachers

  • who might able to volunteer to,

  • and not just teachers, anyone who might be able

  • to volunteer to help support students

  • around the world who right now are feeling

  • maybe a little bit socially distanced

  • and need more support above and beyond

  • what Khan Academy can do on its own.

  • Our hope is, we've released those schedules on Friday

  • that Khan Academy is able to,

  • that we've been able to structure a day

  • so that students of most ages are able

  • to use Khan Academy for most subjects.

  • But we hope that that can be supported with other things.

  • Yesterday we talked about ideas

  • like if there's a classroom or a cohort of students

  • who are working on something at the same time,

  • maybe they can share a video conference link,

  • a Zoom or a Google Hangout, where if any of them

  • have questions, they can go on,

  • it could maybe be staffed by a volunteer parent

  • or by their teacher.

  • And we're going to think about ways

  • that we might be able to do that at a larger scale

  • or maybe even give templates or directions

  • for anyone to be able to do that type of thing.

  • Once again, none of this is ideal,

  • but we're lucky that we have access to technology

  • and a lot of resources that will hopefully,

  • if this happened 30 years ago,

  • we would've been a lot tougher of a situation.

  • So that's our hope.

  • Let's see, so I have a question here,

  • does Khan Academy provide social-emotional programs?

  • So Khan Academy historically didn't explicitly

  • do social-emotional programs.

  • We tried to put some social-emotional best practices

  • in our product experience and even in our content.

  • What we're told, people like some of our content

  • because it just feels relaxing and fun,

  • and sometimes improvised, kind of like

  • what you're seeing right now.

  • But what we've been doing over the years

  • is trying to think about other ways

  • that we can supplement our core content

  • and experience with social-emotional programs.

  • We've had programs at schools like LearnStorm.

  • The app, Khan Academy Kids, that has been recently launched,

  • that was about a year and a half, almost two years now,

  • that is for younger students ages three to about six,

  • goes through the first grade standards,

  • and that does cover social-emotional learning

  • above and beyond math, reading, and writing

  • so as to develop some of that, how do you deal with others

  • in cooperation and build your resilience?

  • But that is something that we hope

  • to explore further over time.

  • And let's see, other questions that I might,

  • let me see.

  • Kay Gret says, do you think that school will be canceled

  • for the rest of the year?

  • I'm not an expert,

  • although I'm not 100% sure that anyone

  • has a clear idea right now.

  • What I do know, I posted a video on Saturday

  • about the virus itself and about its spread,

  • and if you look at the patterns in other countries,

  • the peak cases from the stage that,

  • and it depends who I'm talking to in what part of the world

  • but if you're looking from an American point of view,

  • it looks like the peak cases start to level off

  • about two or three weeks after, or maybe four weeks,

  • after there's a serious, whether you call it a shutdown

  • or a stay in place.

  • Like here in California we haven't had a full shutdown,

  • we're allowed to go outside,

  • but they are enforcing a stay in place.

  • So there's only some very basic functions that are in place.

  • China, in Wuhan, did a full shutdown,

  • and so they probably saw pretty good,

  • and it still took them two to four weeks

  • to get to a leveling off period.

  • So in places like California where it's not as full

  • of a shutdown, I hope that can happen in that timeframe,

  • but even if you imagine that,

  • which I think would be on the more optimistic

  • sides of things, it's not that all of a sudden

  • people are gonna open up all of the institutions at peak,

  • 'cause the worst thing you want to do is

  • that things start to level off

  • and then you open everything up

  • and then things go back exponential.

  • So my best guess is that it's going to be several weeks,

  • and you can imagine the school year,

  • at least in the Northern Hemisphere

  • we have about two months left, 2 1/2 months left.

  • So I think it's possible that this goes

  • through the end of the school year.

  • Not an expert though.

  • Let's see.

  • So Isaiah Hong says, hi Sal, hi Sal Khan,

  • a fellow college student here.

  • Maybe I don't look so old to Isaiah,

  • he says fellow college student,

  • how will I know myself if I have mastered the material

  • I've been studying, any tips or key indicators

  • to know if I have demonstrated mastery?

  • Well, one of the key tenants for those of y'all listening

  • and don't know about mastery and mastery learning

  • at Khan Academy is this notion of mastery,

  • that in traditional academics oftentimes

  • you're exposed to the material

  • and maybe you, and then the class

  • might move on to the next subject.

  • And then that gap, and maybe it's in something

  • pretty fundamental, it might be in basic exponents.

  • Now all of a sudden you go to the next unit

  • that's on negative exponents, on logarithms

  • and you're expected to understand it.

  • And so Isaiah, I think there's two ways to think about it.

  • There's kind of the general term of mastery

  • that people use in everyday language,

  • and then the, I guess you'd say more academic version

  • that we use called mastery learning

  • which is making sure that you can learn at your own pace

  • and fill in all of your gaps.

  • So to answer your question as to

  • how do you know that you've mastered it,

  • I think the question maybe is mastered

  • at a certain degree of knowledge.

  • And that's why when you go, for example,

  • on math or in many of the sciences on Khan Academy

  • we have what we call these mastery mechanics.

  • So that for every skill you can,

  • you get to familiar, proficient, or mastered

  • depending on, have you done it on kind of skill-focused

  • practice, have you done it in kind of

  • a context switching environment on our unit tests

  • or our course challenges?

  • So if you're on Khan Academy and if you're in a course

  • and you get full mastery by doing the unit tests,

  • the master challenges, the course challenges.

  • On that course challenge, you can get a 90-plus percent,

  • you will have mastered that content,

  • at least in the modalities that Khan Academy

  • is presenting them to you.

  • If you want to go even deeper in a subject,

  • especially in something like math,

  • then I expect, then I would go after

  • some of the more multi-part questions,

  • even for some of the things like our AP prep

  • we have videos that go into deeper questions

  • that you really can't do in a multiple choice,

  • in a free response modality.

  • And there pause the video before I work through it

  • or one of our video creators work through it

  • and try to work through it on your own.

  • And I think if you're seeing that, you'll have mastered it.

  • I think the next level may be even above a mastery,

  • and this goes to a previous question that someone asked is,

  • teach the material to other people.

  • That's really the best way to ensure that you can master it.

  • Because if you can really distill it in simple ways

  • and teach it to others, then I think you know the material.

  • Okay, other question?

  • Yeah, and my apologies, I've gotten multiple points

  • of feedback now that the internet connection here

  • is not good.

  • So I'm going to try to fix this overnight

  • and have a better internet connection for everyone tomorrow.

  • So let's see, other questions.

  • Kim McDonald, this is a parent, and says,

  • is there an easy way to learn how to make assignments

  • for my kids?

  • I'm new here and I want them working every day.

  • And so the simple answer is yes,

  • you can make assignments on Khan Academy.

  • You can actually register using the teacher tools

  • as a parent and then you could either add your child on

  • as one of your students or there's a little code

  • and then they can add you on

  • as their coach or their teacher.

  • And then once you're a teacher,

  • if you go to any piece of content

  • you can actually see a little thing

  • that shows up at the top that says you can assign it

  • and you'll only have one student

  • or however many children you have.

  • So, yes, you can assign content,

  • but I also encourage, especially in subjects like math,

  • let your student learn at his or her own pace

  • so that they can master concepts at their time and pace

  • and that for you to support them,

  • answer any questions they might have

  • and provide some motivation.

  • See, other questions.

  • So someone asks, hey Sal, it's really hard

  • for me to concentrate at home, any advice

  • for finding motivation when you don't

  • have any outside pressure?

  • This is a very good question,

  • and I think this is something that we all face,

  • especially now that most of us, or all of us,

  • are going to be working from home.

  • But it's an important skill,

  • because especially once you're out of school,

  • you know, my day, I don't have someone saying,

  • hey, do this for the next hour

  • then do that for the next hour, sometimes I do.

  • But the way to try to do it is I give myself

  • a list of things that I hope to accomplish in a given day

  • or in a given week and what I do is as I'm able

  • to hopefully accomplish some of them,

  • and some of them are longer ranging things

  • that can't be done in an hour,

  • but some of them are things that can be done that hour.

  • And it could be in progress to something bigger.

  • And what I tell myself is if I can knock this stuff out,

  • then I have earned a right to, whatever,

  • take a break, go for a walk, whatever else.

  • I find that pretty motivating.

  • I think it's also motivating just to remind yourself,

  • this is your opportunity to really invest in yourself.

  • A lot of times I think students maybe have the right mindset

  • to school where they're kind of just like,

  • oh, I gotta be here, what do I have to do?

  • But you have to realize school is massive investment in you,

  • in your capabilities, and now that you're home,

  • and we'll try to support you as best as we can

  • and try to come up with more mechanisms to support you,

  • but the simple answer is this is your chance

  • to build that other muscle, not just the algebra

  • or the reading comprehension or the science

  • but build the muscle of actually learning how to learn

  • and learning to self motivate here,

  • which I think is in some ways the most valuable meta skill

  • you can have in life.

  • Okay.

  • I see someone asks, I just missed a question,

  • that was an interesting one.

  • It says, what is, let me get back on the questions

  • from the team.

  • Let's see, I have another question,

  • tips on how you make videos for students.

  • So I wish I could show you my office right now,

  • which I'm not at because of the stay at home orders

  • that we have here in Northern California.

  • But my setup is pretty simple.

  • I have a basic laptop, actually this is the laptop

  • that I've recorded many Khan Academy videos on.

  • I have a $150 Samson microphone.

  • You could probably find it online

  • or at a local electronics store.

  • Doesn't have to be that one,

  • just something that sounds decent.

  • It's not super, all out professional microphone.

  • And I use a Wacom tablet to draw on,

  • so it's a tablet that you can write on

  • and it takes a little bit of getting used to

  • but I've been doing it for 10 years now

  • so I'm very used to it, 14 years now.

  • On top of that, what I use is a drawing program.

  • In the old days, I used Microsoft Paint,

  • then I ended up using other tools.

  • Now I use SketchBook Pro as the art program

  • and then I use Camtasia Studio to do screen capture

  • while I'm drawing on the art program.

  • So that is how I make the videos,

  • kind of the meta tips I would have

  • if you want to make videos is just get started.

  • I think it's very easy to overplan

  • or to convince yourself you're not ready,

  • and there's nothing like kind of jumping in

  • and getting started, especially if your audience

  • is for people you know and you care about.

  • I think it was a blessing for me

  • that Khan Academy started with my cousins.

  • It allowed me to say, all right, it's my cousins,

  • I'm just gonna press record and see what happens.

  • But I think that allowed the videos

  • to be more conversational,

  • to be a little bit more comfortable.

  • You don't want to be super improvised,

  • but a little bit of improvisation is nice,

  • people can recognize that it's not being constructed

  • by some corporation with large focus groups,

  • et cetera, et cetera, it's one human being

  • trying to communicate with another human being.

  • So I really encourage you, I can't tell you how many,

  • I had friends that I tried to recruit to make videos

  • in the early days of Khan Academy

  • and they're brilliant people who know how to explain things,

  • passionate about their subject.

  • If I talked to them at a coffee shop about it,

  • I'm like, oh, can I just record you?

  • 'Cause the way you just explained quantum physics

  • is inspiring and really easy to understand.

  • Then as soon as I try to make 'em do a video,

  • they would get all tight and they'd be like,

  • okay, the next step is, and it's like,

  • what happened to you?

  • And I think sometimes you can get into your head

  • and you're so concerned what other people will think

  • that everyone gravitates to a safe space

  • and they try not to be themselves

  • and they try to be what they think

  • other people think an expert should sound like.

  • So I wouldn't do that, I would try to be yourself.

  • Have your personality out there and be vulnerable

  • with your students.

  • But obviously feel very comfortable with the material

  • and I think it'll come out just great.

  • Let's see, Jessica Swanepoel says, not a question,

  • but want to say my daughter followed the schedule yesterday

  • and loved it.

  • She was very excited to get started again this morning.

  • Awesome, that's great news to hear

  • 'cause we put the schedules out over the weekend

  • and it's good to get feedback, and positive feedback

  • helps sometimes.

  • But negative feedback is good too,

  • so everyone should be encouraged to give negative feedback,

  • critical feedback, because that was our first draft schedule

  • for students and we hope to refine it as we learn more.

  • So also give us feedback and just say, hey,

  • that period was a little bit too long

  • for students of that age or actually she wanted to do more

  • but the schedule said move on to the next thing

  • or that break was a little bit too long

  • or we have ideas for other parts of the schedule,

  • let us know, we would love to make that schedule

  • better and better.

  • Let's see, Heather Johnson says, is Khan Academy free?

  • That's a question I love to answer.

  • Khan Academy is free, that's why we exist.

  • We are a not-for-profit organization

  • with a mission of providing a free world class education

  • for anyone anywhere.

  • The next question you might wondering is, how is it free?

  • 'Cause it costs many millions of dollars ever year,

  • many tens of millions of dollars every year to put out,

  • even to start server costs are $7 million a year,

  • and I have a feeling based on some

  • of the numbers we saw yesterday

  • that they're going to be in excess

  • of $10 million a year shortly.

  • That's paid for by philanthropic donations.

  • And so I will say if any of you,

  • for those of you who are in a position to donate,

  • you can go to khanacademy.org/donate.

  • If you find value from Khan Academy,

  • if you want to ensure that it's up and running

  • as we go through this crisis that students

  • around the world who don't have the resources

  • or don't have access to high quality materials,

  • think about even a $5, $10, one-time or monthly donation.

  • But that's how we are free for everyone.

  • Let's see, this is from Dishonest Abe,

  • I respect your honesty in your username.

  • Where do you get the emotional energy to learn all the time?

  • You know, for me, learning actually gives me

  • emotional energy, I tell a lot of folks

  • when they learn that Khan Academy

  • is now a 200-person-plus organization,

  • they kind of imagine that I'm your traditional CEO

  • who might sit in a boardroom all day

  • and be in meetings all day,

  • and some of that is kind of true,

  • but I'm a fairly nontraditional CEO.

  • But for me, and all of that's really important,

  • you have to have a team that you get aligned,

  • that you can work with, that you can do big things together,

  • because you're not gonna be able to do it by yourself.

  • And this is true even beyond Khan Academy,

  • why we form partnerships and things like that.

  • But for my emotional energy,

  • for me to be able to get into the walk-in closet

  • or go into my office and to be able

  • to learn some new history or new science

  • or just to be able to communicate something

  • that I've always loved, which is almost everything

  • I ever learned, that's the stuff

  • that puts me in a good mood.

  • When I come home and I'm grumpy,

  • my wife will say, you probably didn't make any videos today

  • and she's usually accurate.

  • I'm usually in a good mode once I've had a chance

  • to immerse myself in some academic content.

  • And I think the thing you have to appreciate

  • is this content that you're seeing in textbooks

  • or Khan Academy, almost every concept

  • someone had dedicated their life to figuring out.

  • And sometimes people dedicate their lives to figure out

  • and they couldn't figure it out.

  • They couldn't figure out, how did plants grow,

  • how did they take carbon from the air

  • and use sunlight and water to somehow store energy?

  • How do we know that A squared plus B squared

  • is equal to C squared?

  • People pondered this for sometimes decades,

  • hundreds of years, and you have the answers.

  • And it's all there, and you just have

  • to decode it a little bit.

  • It's like you're Harry, and you're like,

  • wow, someone figured out all this stuff

  • and I can learn this magic without having

  • to go through all of that and maybe one day

  • push the frontier.

  • So Dishonest Abe, I think it's just

  • if you look at it the right way,

  • it's incredibly magical and it could be

  • a source of emotional energy, of learning,

  • versus a drain on emotional energy.

  • So let's see, maybe we have time for one more question.

  • And let's see, the science enthusiast says,

  • my sister is struggling with fractions,

  • I want to teach her.

  • How can I teach her in a way that she likes?

  • So I think the number one thing,

  • so if she's struggling with fractions,

  • I would go to Khan Academy's section on fractions,

  • you can search on our page.

  • You can even actually go to arithmetic,

  • the whole arithmetic course on Khan Academy,

  • there's a whole unit on fractions.

  • And I would start at the beginning of that unit,

  • and I would have her work on that material

  • while you are sitting next to her.

  • Don't answer the questions for her.

  • You can give her little pushes every now and then,

  • little nudges if she's getting a little demotivated

  • or she needs a little bit of a reminder,

  • or you just need to say, well, read the question again,

  • what are they really asking?

  • And see how she's doing.

  • If you think her question,

  • her problem is really in fractions,

  • then try to just answer any questions she might have,

  • but always push her, if she has a question,

  • say watch the video first.

  • Let her build that sense of agency

  • so that she can learn to learn

  • and you're there to support her.

  • But if the video isn't properly explaining it

  • or it's just not resonating with her,

  • the hints to each of the exercise items

  • are not resonating with her, then it's a great for saying,

  • okay, well let's think about it like this.

  • But I think the hardest thing when you're doing it live

  • is the patience, and I say that because people say

  • I sound very patient in the videos, hopefully I do,

  • but sometimes when you're,

  • when I'm with my kids sometimes

  • and I feel like I'm, I think their brain is drifting,

  • they're probably getting frustrated with me

  • because they're thinking dad's saying the same thing

  • over and over again and it's not making progress.

  • So respect, appreciate that she is trying,

  • that she's not just drifting and she's not listening to you

  • and just try to be as patient as possible.

  • I think that's where tutoring session oftentimes break down.

  • The tutor gets frustrated, the student gets frustrated,

  • and everyone wants to walk away.

  • So have that patience, keep motivating her,

  • and I think little by little, I saw this Nadia

  • back in the day in 2004 when I was tutoring her,

  • as long as you keep that regularity

  • I think you are going to see a lot of progress.

  • If you see that even at the earliest fractions thing,

  • so even adding 2/3 to 1/3 somehow she has some difficulties

  • with things like that, it might be from gaps

  • that are coming earlier in her learning journey

  • in some of the more basic arithmetic.

  • So that's another thing that you might want to do

  • is have her start earlier and build some confidence.

  • That's one thing we've been recommending on the schedules

  • is having students maybe even start

  • as early as kindergarten.

  • For example, your sister I'm guessing she's a third

  • or a fourth grade student, start her on kindergarten,

  • and she'll get through that super fast.

  • She might learn a thing or two,

  • probably will take her half an hour,

  • an hour to get through kindergarten,

  • then first grade might take her an hour.

  • It'll build confidence.

  • She'll see that, okay, she can do this,

  • then second grade, then third grade.

  • If she gets to third grade, she's going

  • to start hitting her zone of proximal development,

  • her learning edge, so to speak,

  • but she'll know that she's approaching it

  • with a very strong foundation.

  • And the more that you can be around there for her,

  • the better, and motivate her.

  • So I will, I think that's all for today,

  • especially with all of the technical difficulty.

  • Thanks everyone for being part of this.

  • This is one of the things that keeps me happy

  • in this time of what we call here in the US

  • social distancing to hopefully stop the spread

  • of this virus, but I really enjoy connecting

  • with all of you.

  • I hope that this provides some form of connection

  • in this time of social distancing for all of you as well.

  • And stay tuned, I'm gonna do this every day

  • so that we feel together, we want to support you

  • not only on your learning journeys

  • but just as human beings, this is something,

  • one day someone will do Khan Academy videos

  • about this time in history, 'cause it's,

  • I think it's pretty interesting.

  • So I will leave y'all, and I'll see you tomorrow.

- Okay, I think third time did the trick.

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