I was recently at a great conference in San Francisco on education technology. The education technology field is really taking off these days, and it was fascinating to be immersed in the topic for a day of interesting speakers and panels. One of the highlights of the conference was a talk by Sal Kahn, founder of Kahn Academy. Kahn Academy is an online-learning platform consisting of lectures on a range of topics and subjects, practice exercises that accompany the lectures, and a data dashboard that allows teachers to follow the progress of their students. The amazing thing about Kahn Academy is the way it is being used to allow teachers to spend classroom time helping students understand key exercises, while they assign Kahn Academy lectures as homework. This model of utilizing Kahn Academy in classrooms is showing initial promise, and it will be exciting to see how it fares in a number of different pilot classrooms in the coming years.
There were several other interesting talks at the conference, on topics ranging from how to best evaluate new online educational games to what the future of education technology will look like. I am looking forward to diving deeper into the research on education technology in the coming months and will no doubt be at many more exciting lectures and panels on the topic.
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