Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)

by Salman Khan

Frankly, as both a father and an educator, I understood this distrust. The last thing I wanted was for a new technology to come and strip our students of agency, creativity, socialization skills, and collaborative learning opportunities.

In settings like Khan Lab School and Khan World School, which both focus on mastery learning, we are seeing students gain one and a half to three years of learning in math per year.

If the student gets the next step wrong, Khanmigo replies, “Close, but not quite! Remember, we’re looking for the highest power of x in the polynomial. Let’s try again together.”

Does this count as someone mastered the topic already?

By revisiting what we think we are trying to accomplish through a writing assignment, we can also think about how to solve the cheating issue in a post-ChatGPT world.

Same with learning in general... is the goal to provide fundamentals? Is the goal to tech the capacity to learn hard things ? Or is it job skills

Some on social media commented that they’d prefer to read a well-researched biography on Tubman than engage with the simulation. That’s great, and that person probably doesn’t need the simulation. But the fact is that millions of kids aren’t about to read a dense biography, and access to these simulations won’t prevent them from doing so if they are thus inclined.

Technology is a vector, helping parents work with their kids to see the wonder and joy in knowledge together. The technology is so broad and so inviting that when you are using it, you really feel as if you were on an AI-guided journey that’s designed for parents and kids to explore the world together.