Khan Academy, a learning institution

If you've read my post about collaborative investigation you've got an idea of what Khan Academy is all about. They've got a mission to provide instructive videos on nearly every topic, organized in an intuitively sensible way and paired with interactive practice problems. In this way, a student selects their own homework to support their work in class. These online tools allow teachers to abandon traditional lowest-common denominator lecturing and open up the classroom to deep exploration of mathematical concepts linked to real world problems. Indeed, this is the larger revolution which Khan Academy aspires to inspire.

Khan Academy is young, and they are learning as they go along. Their process is as collaborative and non-linear as that of our students. They adapt to unexpected realities, they adopt new tools when they make sense, and they model the creative problem solving which we hope to see in our students' work.

Learn how they learn here.