Sal Khan: Let's teach for mastery -- not test scores
萨尔曼·汗: 让我们为掌握而教,而不是为了考试分数
In 2004, Sal Khan, a hedge fund analyst, began making math tutorials for his cousins. Twelve years later, Khan Academy has more than 42 million registered users from 190 countries, with tutorials on subjects from basic math through economics, art history, computer science, health, medicine and more. Full bio
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the two ideas that,
my observations at Khan Academy,
or the key leverage points for learning.
小表亲们的时候就发现,
working with my cousins.
with math at first,
不断积累着知识漏洞。
accumulated in their learning.
they got to an algebra class
可能就不太跟得上,
shaky on some of the pre-algebra,
没有数学天赋。
they didn't have the math gene.
shaky on the algebra.
some of those videos on YouTube,
who were not my cousins were watching.
也在看这些视频。
were just simple thank-yous.
多少时间在YouTube上。
you all spend on YouTube.
got a little more intense,
他们长大后,变得更加不喜欢数学。
that they had grown up not liking math.
into more advanced math topics.
导致他们完全更不上进度。
they couldn't engage with it.
have the math gene.
并决定下功夫去学。
and decided to engage.
这样的资源,
and master those concepts,
that it wasn't fixed;
其实有能力学好数学。
of learning mathematics.
这也是掌握新技能的一种途径。
you would master a lot of things in life.
learn a martial art.
practice the white belt skills
a musical instrument:
over and over again,
academic model is structured,
that most of us grew up in.
usually by age,
和外显的学习能力分组,
together at the same pace.
代数预备课堂,
pre-algebra class,
a lecture on exponents,
我们会检查这些作业。
we'll review the homework,
上课,做作业。
lecture, homework.
two or three weeks,
我也许只会75%的题目,
gaps in our knowledge,
依旧有5%的内容没搞懂。
the five percent they didn't know?
进入下一个专题,
move on to the next subject,
但却会建立在我们的知识漏洞之上。
that's going to build on those gaps.
或者是负指数函数。
or negative exponents.
你会突然间发现,
and you immediately start to realize
of the more foundational thing,
to the more advanced thing.
直到某一个时间点,
all the way until at some point,
or trigonometry class
is fundamentally difficult
and they're dealing with exponents
that I didn't know is showing up.
以这种方式干其它的事情时,
in our life that way.
two weeks to build a foundation.
the inspector comes, looks around,
房屋检查员来了,看了一下,
is still wet right over there,
我们开始建第一层吧!”
Let's build the first floor."
然后房屋检查员来了,给了个75分。
inspector shows up, it's a 75 percent.
while you're building the third floor,
you typically have in education,
估计是承包商不够格,
we had a bad contractor,
or more frequent inspection.
was the process.
去限制完成某事的时间,
how long we had to something,
and identifying those gaps,
is to do the exact opposite.
就是反其道而行之。
constraining, fixing
that variable outcome,
应该是何时以及多久
to work on something,
学生真的掌握了这门知识。
they actually master the material.
learn their exponents better,
更好地掌握指数函数,
正确的思维方式。
the right mindset muscles.
如果他们答错了20%,
20 percent wrong on something,
a C branded in your DNA somehow.
在这个内容上继续努力、
keep working on it.
you should have perseverance;
well, hey, this is all great,
可能会说,这听起来不错,
这套以掌握为目的教学方式
of mastery-based learning
over their learning.
但不太实际。
but it seems impractical.
每个学生都必须遵循自己的学习进度。
would be on their own track.
and worksheets for every student.
温内特卡市就有这样的实践:
in Winnetka, Illinois, 100 years ago,
以掌握为目的的教学,成果很显著,
and saw great results,
毕竟可行性太低了。
because it was logistically difficult.
worksheets to every student,
at their own time and pace?
readily available for students.
all sorts of neat things happen.
master the concepts,
their growth mindset,
can start to happen
on the lecture,
over the material.
Socratic dialogue.
of a thought experiment.
into the past to Western Europe,
literate parts of the planet,
文明最发达的地区之一,
of the population knew how to read.
who did know how to read,
do you think is even capable of reading?"
“嗯,基于这强大的教育体系,
with a great education system,
那样的预测实在太悲观了,
would have been wildly pessimistic,
of the population is capable of reading.
a similar question:
do you think is capable
为癌症研究作出贡献的呢?”
to cancer research?"
“嗯,基于这强大的教育体系,
with a great education system,
in a non-mastery framework,
或仅是对周围人的观察而已呢?
or observing your peers,
at this set pace through classes,
直到进入高等课堂,
you get to an advanced class,
我当不了数学家。”
not meant to be a mathematician."
掌握知识的视角去审视,
in a mastery framework,
从培养学习动力的角度来看,
take agency over your learning,
当作学习的一部分坦然接受,
as a moment of learning --
that could really master calculus
the industrial age
我们正处于一个工业时代,
this information revolution.
things are happening.
一些变化正在发生。
社会是一个金字塔。
society was a pyramid.
you needed human labor.
you had an information processing,
就会是那些资本家,
you had your owners of capital
automation, is going to take over.
information processing,
我们有一个问题:
because of this technology,
of the pyramid, in which case,
更加远大的事业呢?
that's more aspirational?
to invert the pyramid,
can participate as an entrepreneur,
is all based on the idea
tap into their potential
over their learning,
as just a citizen of the world,
the type of equity we can we have,
could even progress.
a pretty exciting time to be alive.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Sal Khan - Educator and social entrepreneurIn 2004, Sal Khan, a hedge fund analyst, began making math tutorials for his cousins. Twelve years later, Khan Academy has more than 42 million registered users from 190 countries, with tutorials on subjects from basic math through economics, art history, computer science, health, medicine and more.
Why you should listen
Salman "Sal" Khan is the founder and chief executive officer of Khan Academy, a not-for-profit with a mission of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.
Khan Academy started as a passion project in 2004. Khan's cousin was struggling with math, so he tutored her remotely and posted educational videos on YouTube. So many people watched the videos that eventually Khan quit his job at a hedge fund and pursued Khan Academy full time. Today Khan Academy has more than 100 employees in Mountain View, California. Khan Academy believes learners of all ages should have unlimited access to free educational content they can master at their own pace. Its resources cover preschool through early college education, including math, grammar, biology, chemistry, physics, economics, finance and history. Additionally, Khan Academy offers free personalized SAT test prep in partnership with the test developer, the College Board. More than 42 million registered users access Khan Academy in dozens of languages across 190 countries.
Khan has been profiled by "60 Minutes," featured on the cover of Forbes, and recognized as one of TIME’s "100 Most Influential People in the World." In his book, The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined, Sal outlines his vision for the future of education.
Khan holds three degrees from MIT and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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