Khan Academy

“I found the gamification, quizzes, etc. simply distracting.”

“Khan Academy is a gateway for a student to draw the map or scaffold as the initial phase.”

“He however allowed his discoveries to be packaged as a neat capitalist solution”

“It's helped tons of children by virtue of making solid learning material available for free on the internet”

“They complemented school and helped me understand things I'd ignored in class”

“Deriving formulas rather than memorizing them opened up a new perspective for me.”

“it's that I find it incredibly distracting which means I can't focus as easily on the content”

“Khan Academy is a treasure, and is how I re-learned math in my 20s after not taking it seriously in school.”

“Khan Academy is tremendously useful when started at a young age and done consistently”

“It helps build up the problem/solution from the ground up and he goes through each step out loud to help a student understand.”

“the presentation was exceptionally clear, and focused on developing one little piece of a subject at a time”

“Khan Academy is 2010-era state-of-the-art for rote learning and procedural knowledge.”

“I've always struggled with Sal's slow and repetitive speaking style in the videos.”

“it served as an easy-to-digest scaffolding on top of which to build a deeper understanding”

“Quizlet, Khan Academy, Notion, and Gizmo are all great, but each only handles one piece of the puzzle”

“it just feels like you're all over the place and regularly missing skills it expects you to have”

“I'm almost certain I wouldn't have pushed through and gotten a degree without the internet (3b1b and Khan Academy in particular)”

“Deeply admire what Sal Khan set out to do. One of the original pioneers of how technology could transform education.”

“I have found khan academy to be really good for filling any math gaps”

“I think that Khan Academy has a lot of graphics programmers that you might be interested in seeing.”

“Khan Academy exists. Math tutors exist. They don't just exist, they're amazing.”

“He really took the time to replicate the manual teaching process of writing on whiteboard.”

“Having YouTube and Khan Academy and everything else would have made such a huge difference for me.”

“I had no access to anyone who could teach me calculus as a kid except Khan Academy”

“actually having easily digestible 5 min vids like those Khan put out, just wasn't a thing”

“there are Khan Academy, Harvard, MIT,... courses that you can download and use locally”

“It was genuinely new that a student could rewatch something until it clicked”

“it's an excellent way to have some sort of a basic curriculum, especially when self-studying”

“It was a marketing job around a YouTube channel that purported to be a teaching revolution.”

“in practice it's still about the amount of time a pupil does train with the right oversight”

“Khan Academy to me is still just a YouTube channel trying very hard to be something more.”

“help lots of talented kids to progress in the curriculum beyond what's available in physical classrooms”

“Khan Academy was free and used to obtain 99th percentile SAT scores.”

“Khan Academy actually does force feed you enough actual problems to learn some math”

“Oh this is awesome. I think I remember using this guy's stuff for remedial biology”

“you can search Youtube and find a great Khan Academy/3b1b collab explaining it”

“we mostly use them to learn how to type, write, draw, play learning games, Khan Academy”

“They have a lot of interactive lessons in early math, where you drag and drop for counting and grouping.”

“they both found it really helpful to look at Khan Academy / YouTube clips to better understand what I was explaining”

“I've heard of adults going through Khan Academy's math curriculum for fun to refresh their math skills.”