Bill Gates calls this the future of education. I think he is correct. I am doing a project involving corporate training and this method has vast implications for my work. I also have three school age children, and they will be "attending" Khan tonight. This is the very first post I've read on HN and I'm overwhelmed by its significance. Thanks!
John Resig joins the Khan Academy
21–30 of 75 posts
Re: John Resig joins the Khan Academy
#22Noble Cause. But I am curious to know will Khan Academy give a basic salary or he working for free? in which case, I salute you Congrats!
When Bill Gates uses your product to teach his kids, asking for some grant money probably isn't much of a problem.
I don't know their relationship, but in Salman Khan's TED Talk[1], Gates performs some closing remarks with him.
In the talk, he mentions that they're doing a pilot program with the Los Altos school district[2] as well, which I'm sure wasn't for free since it involved custom development.
[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_rein... [2] http://lasdandkhanacademy.edublogs.org/about/
Re: John Resig joins the Khan Academy
#23I spoke to John Resig the other day after he fixed /r/f7u12's stylesheet (he really earned his mod place!), and now I hate him with all my heart for being more successful and more of a nice guy than I am. I bet he's also more handsome. EDIT: And he's a year younger! Damn you, jeresig!
(completely unrelated buy why is historio.us down, did you shut it down? I don't see any mention of outages on Twitter)
Re: John Resig joins the Khan Academy
#24I spoke to John Resig the other day after he fixed /r/f7u12's stylesheet (he really earned his mod place!), and now I hate him with all my heart for being more successful and more of a nice guy than I am. I bet he's also more handsome. EDIT: And he's a year younger! Damn you, jeresig!
(completely unrelated buy why is historio.us down, did you shut it down? I don't see any mention of outages on Twitter)
Oops, sorry, apparently the maintenance I'm doing killed some component due to low memory. I'll reboot as soon as I'm done and it'll all be back to normal!
Re: John Resig joins the Khan Academy
#25It is awesome that Khan Academy has attracted so much top talent. Has the potential to make a real difference in world education and thus in human potential. Goes to show how much effect a relatively small investment can make when joined with amazing, driven, talented people.
I agree except for "Has the potential". It is making an improvement right now. It is hard to describe how it feels to watch my 9 year old pop off months worth of school tedium in one morning, moving up through long division into simple algebra equations. Or my 14 fill in gaps that had been confusing her for years. Comments like "oh, I get it now" or "that's not hard at all" are common.
It's also incredible that it made me understand trigonometry at 30, after mexican education failed to got me interested in math.
Re: John Resig joins the Khan Academy
#26voted without reading - and i'm even not jQ or John Resig fan.
Re: John Resig joins the Khan Academy
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
When Bill Gates uses your product to teach his kids, asking for some grant money probably isn't much of a problem.
I don't know their relationship, but in Salman Khan's TED Talk[1], Gates performs some closing remarks with him. In the talk, he mentions that they're doing a pilot program with the Los Altos school district[2] as well, which I'm sure wasn't for free since it involved custom development. [1] http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_rein... [2] http://lasdandkhanacademy.edublogs.org/about/
Actually, it was totally free in terms of the school not having to lay out any cash. The reason we chose to work with them, however, is that they committed a ton of time from teachers, students, administrators, and parents to help us make the Khan Academy work better for the classroom use case.
The experience working with them has been fantastic. The teachers are fearless in the face of the significant uncertainty that introducing something like the KA in a classroom can create. They've been creative about experimenting with different ways of integrating KA into the classroom (trying things we didn't anticipate). Speaking as a UX designer, having nearly unlimited access to teachers and students for interviews and observations has been invaluable. Plus the teachers aren't shy about letting us know if something isn't working out. If anything, it feels like we should be paying them.
Re: John Resig joins the Khan Academy
#28I wish the Khan Academy and everybody who is working for this awesome idea and good cause all the best. It is these people that make me feel so proud of mankind.
Getting the chance to work on such a project makes money and career fade far into the background. All the Good this project is doing for the world makes it worth it. And all without the need to charge for the service or display ads.
Congrats John on this excellent choice for a chance to make a change.
Re: John Resig joins the Khan Academy
#29Makes me wonder what this says about Mozilla. Perhaps not the exciting place it used to be 5+ years ago?
Given how exciting Khan Academy is, Mozilla could still be pretty darn awesome and not stack up.
Agreed. Mozilla may have helped change the browser landscape, but the Khan Academy could change the face of education in this country. Both worthy places to pour one's energy but I'd give the edge in excitement to KA.
Re: John Resig joins the Khan Academy
#30If I'm not mistaken Khan Academy is still hiring: http://www.khanacademy.org/jobs/dev and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2412000
I'm sure there are many great minds in here who would love to join John and the rest of the KA team