Khan Academy & Khanmigo Partnership for NYS Districts via BOCES

Introduction to Khan Academy and NYS Partnership

• 🚀 The webinar introduces the partnership between Khan Academy and New York State districts, facilitated through BOCES.
• 💡 The goal is to help students achieve grade-level success using Khan Academy's mastery learning system, now enhanced with AI tools.
• 🤝 The New York team, including Danielle Sullivan (District Partnerships), Sarah Thaylor (District Success Manager), Diana Clingman (Professional Learning Specialist), and Ally Walther, is introduced.

The Power of Learning and Human Connection

• 🧠 Humans learn best when actively engaged, at the edge of struggle, with immediate feedback, and when learning is relevant.
• 💖 Human connection is paramount in education, emphasizing that children learn from people they like and that educators and leaders should believe in the capabilities of students and teachers.
• 📚 Khan Academy's mission is to provide free world-class education, with its district partnership offering enhanced tools beyond the free version.

Khan Academy Districts Program and Khanmigo

• 🏫 The Khan Academy Districts program offers automated rostering (Clever/ClassLink), dedicated implementation support, and admin reporting dashboards.
• 🤖 Khanmigo, the AI-powered Socratic tutor and teaching assistant, supports students 24/7 and helps teachers save time.
• 🔑 The partnership is the only way to access student-facing AI tools like Khanmigo, alongside teacher tools and ChatGPT for educators.

Khanmigo: Enhancing Student Learning

• 💡 Khanmigo acts as a learning partner, not just a chatbot, guiding students through problems without giving direct answers.
• 🎶 It can relate learning to students' interests, such as explaining math concepts through music, making learning more relevant and engaging.
• ✍️ The Writing Coach feature helps students develop academic essays, providing feedback on prompts, outlines, drafts, and revisions, with AI flagging potential plagiarism.
• 🗣️ Features like text-to-speech, speech-to-text, and multi-language support enhance accessibility.

AI Tools for Teachers and Leaders

• 🛠️ AI teacher tools are designed to save teachers time in planning, creating, differentiating, supporting, and learning.
• 📊 Class Snapshot provides weekly data on student activity, helping teachers group students for targeted support and small-group instruction.
• 👩‍🏫 AI tools aim to enhance human teaching, not replace it, allowing educators to focus more on the human element and personalized instruction.

Safe and Responsible AI Implementation

• 🔒 Khan Academy prioritizes privacy, security, and compliance, evidenced by a clean SOC 2 audit and a commitment to responsible AI development.
• 🌐 The TeachAI.org partnership offers resources for districts on AI policy, capacity, community, and awareness.
• ✅ The goal is to use AI to enhance human intelligence in schools, supporting educators and students in achieving educational goals equitably and transparently.