Khan Academy

Type: Organization

Name: Khan Academy

First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 1 reports

First all-21st century class to receive high school diplomas

When the graduating seniors walk across a stage to get their high school diplomas this week, they will represent the first purely 21st century class in America.Perhaps as much as any other person her age, London Koehn, a graduating senior at Lawrence ... [Published Lawrence Journal-World - 9 hours ago]

Entities: London, Free State High School, Education

First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 1 reports

FranklinCovey

Great Presentations: 47 Tips from Great Presenters

I worked at Franklin Quest for four years right before they merged with Stephen R. Covey’s organization and became FranklinCovey. For a while we were not only the biggest Time Management Company, but the largest training company in the world. We would ... [Published Forbes.com - 16 hours ago]

Entities: Microsoft PowerPoint, Hyrum Smith, Ken Blanchard, Blaise Pascal, FranklinCovey

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Smartphone App Lets You Carry Human Experts Around In Your Pocket

Imagine if you could bring a slew of virtual experts around with you and ask them for advice whenever the need arose. Although that sounds like futuristic technology, a new app from Esquire magazine shows that it’s a world right around the corner. ... [Published Singularity Hub - May 16 2013]

Entities: Smartphone, Ray Kurzweil, Khan Academy

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Guest Commentary: Rural libraries offer gateway to higher education

If you live in Waterville, but want to take a class from Harvard University, you don’t need to move to Massachusetts. Just visit the North Central Regional Library’s website at www.ncrl.org to find hundreds of free courses available from universities ... [Published Empire Press - May 15 2013]

Entities: Higher Education, Khan Academy, IT Limited, Education

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Avaya Inc

How We Built Avaya's Own Version of Khan Academy

974 videos, 2,159 subscribers, 272,211 video views - all in just 17months. Those are the key stats around the Avaya Mentor program, our fast-growing set of how-to YouTube videos for Avaya products that my team and I have been producing. Last week ... [Published Avaya Connected Blog - May 15 2013]

Entities: Avaya Inc, Khan Academy, YouTube LLC

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Carlos Slim Helú

Is laughing the mic check of 2013?

by Laura Gottesdiener People scattered monopoly money on their way out of the New York Public Library after laughing at monopolist Carlos Slim. (WNV/Casper) Last Thursday night’s event at the New York Public Library got a whole lot funnier when ... [Published Waging Nonviolence - May 15 2013]

Entities: Carlos Slim Helú, Khan Academy, Monopoly Game, Homestead Strike, Stan Williams

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Google Inc

$10 million and three years later with Google's most altruistic project

As we approach the 2013 Google I/O conference and wait to see whatAndroid-enhancing and face-adhering goodies the folks in Mountain View have in store, it's a good time to take a look back at a more innocent, don't-be-evil period in the tech giant's ... [Published PC Advisor - May 14 2013]

Entities: Google Inc, Khan Academy, Robotics, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Shantanu Sinha

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

'Reimaging Education' is topic of meeting featuring Sal Khan at University of New Orleans

Salman Khan, online education pioneer and founder of The Khan Academy, a nonprofit with the mission of providing free, high-quality education for “anyone, anywhere” in the world, will headline "Reimagining Education: A Town Hall Meeting with Sal Khan" ... [Published Bayou Buzz - May 14 2013]

Entities: Salman Khan, University Of New Orleans, Education, Benjamin Franklin

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Mexico's Lucky to Have Just One Man Blocking Internet Equality. We've Got a Bunch

Usually people keep quiet in libraries. But not last Thursday night, when the richest man in the world, Carlos Slim Helú, spoke in a grand, softly lit public room at the New York Public Library. Slim had been invited because of his stunning philanthropy: ... [Published Wired News - May 13 2013]

Entities: Carlos Slim Helú, Mexico, Susan Crawford, OECD

First reported May 12 2013 - Updated May 12 2013 - 1 reports

Schools eye allowing electronic devices

Local school systems are talking about changing their policies on electronic devices, going from a complete ban to trying to integrate them into the classroom.Gadsden City Schools' Director of Technology David Asbury said his system's changes would allow ... [Published Gadsden Times - May 12 2013]

Entities: BYOD Bring Your Own Device, Education, Gadsden City High School, Khan Academy

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 3 reports

With new exchange, TareasPlus takes on Khan Academy in Latin America and beyond

Khan Academy has quickly become one of the most popular educational sites in the U.S. and around the world. But TareasPlus, a startup with offices in Colombia and San Francisco, believes it may have a leg up with Spanish speakers south – and increasingly ... [Published GigaOM - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Khan Academy, Startup, United States, Marketplace, Udemy

First reported Apr 18 2013 - Updated Apr 19 2013 - 3 reports

Bank of America, Khan Academy Promote Better Money Habits in Tiverton and Little Compton

Bank of America and Khan Academy recently announced a financial education collaboration that will provide both Tiverton and Little Compton-area bank customers and non-customers alike free, self-paced, easy-to-understand resources to develop better money ... [Published Tiverton-Little Compton Patch - Apr 19 2013]

Entities: Khan Academy, Bank of America Corp, collaboration

Quotes

"We'd go to Pizza Shuttle, and then go hang out at somebody's house." Copy and paste the link

First all-21st century class to receive high school diplomas [Published Lawrence Journal-World - 9 hours ago]

"If I had more time I would write a shorter letter."

Great Presentations: 47 Tips from Great Presenters [Published Forbes.com - 16 hours ago]

MORE: Get information on how to find grants. And don't miss this 2009 webinar archive, "The Fundamentals of Funding: How to Identify, Write, and Submit Grants for School and Program Initiatives."

Weekly Update: Educational Grants and Resources from Around the Web [Published Edutopia - May 14 2013]

Google injection: $2 million "to fund the opening of additional AIMS centers to promote graduate-level math and study in Africa."

$10 million and three years later with Google's most altruistic project [Published PC Advisor - May 14 2013]

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Blogs

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Smartphone App Lets You Carry Human Experts Aro... [Published Singularity Hub - May 16 2013] Imagine if you could bring a slew of virtual experts around with you and ask them for advice whenever the need arose. Although that sounds like futuristic technology, a new app from Esquire magazine shows that it’s a world right around the corner. ...
How We Built Avaya's Own Version of Khan Academy [Published Avaya Connected Blog - May 15 2013] 974 videos, 2,159 subscribers, 272,211 video views - all in just 17months. Those are the key stats around the Avaya Mentor program, our fast-growing set of how-to YouTube videos for Avaya products that my team and I have been producing. Last week ...
Is laughing the mic check of 2013? [Published Waging Nonviolence - May 15 2013] by Laura Gottesdiener People scattered monopoly money on their way out of the New York Public Library after laughing at monopolist Carlos Slim. (WNV/Casper) Last Thursday night’s event at the New York Public Library got a whole lot funnier when ...
Top THCB Blog Posts of the Last Two Weeks [Published The Health Care Blog - May 13 2013] The E-mail I Want to Send to Our Tech Guys But Keep Deleting (40) By Shirie Leng, MD It really shouldn’t be this hard. This doesn’t seem like rocket science, but you keep telling us it is. What’s the deal with the passwords? Why can’t computers ...
Sal Khan: ‘I love learning’ [Published MIT News feed - May 09 2013] “If there was a PhD in learning everything, I would do that,” the always-enthusiastic Sal Khan ’98, MEng ’98 said in a talk Wednesday at MIT’s Kresge Auditorium. In fact, he added, in creating the popular Khan Academy website for online learning, “Now, ...

Audio/Video

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Educating the world for free [Published CNN.com - Video - May 11 2013]
Khan Academy tackles financial literacy online [Published CBS News Online - YouTube - Apr 08 2013]
Online Lectures Help People Get Excited About L... [Published FOX Business - Video - Feb 08 2013]
How Can Cognitive Science Improve Online Learning? [Published Google Tech Talks - YouTube - Dec 12 2012]

Press Releases

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Amarillo ISD Launches Pilot Program to Integrat... [Published Business Wire - May 13 2013]
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