to these live streams to this daily homeroom.

Which is a team member from our group

that partners with schools and districts and press,

to get communications out to parents

and that is Dan.

Dan are you there?

There's Dan!

And he's gonna help us out,

try to answer our questions together.

He's also going to be looking at the message boards

on the various social media channels

that this is being streamed out to.

To try to surface up the questions

that might be useful for as many people as possible.

Just to get everyone up to speed on what this is,

especially if this is your first time,

Khan Academy is a not for profit with a mission

of providing a free world-class education

for anyone, anywhere.

For many years we've been building resources

for students both in the classroom

and outside of the classroom.

Resources for teachers inside the classroom.

For parents so that they could learn

all the core or most of the core academic skills

from starting with Pre-K with Khan Academy Kids,

going into elementary level Mathematics,

English and Language Arts.

We just launched some English and Language Arts content

going into middle school then high school,

Math, Science, Humanities.

And even things like free SAT practice

that we've partnered with the college board.

And when the school closure situation became a reality,

we realized it's our duty to step up even more.

And so we've been trying to create more and more supports

for teachers, parents, and students,

to navigate this crisis.

Last week we released things like daily schedules

for students of different ages.

But think about how can you put all of these resources

from Khan Academy and resources from other players

together into a very coherent schedule

that can be something that bridges us

until schools reopen.

We've been doing webinars with teachers and parents

to get them up and running.

And we've been doing this.

This live stream which we're calling a homeroom.

Which is away for all of us really to feel connected,

answer each other's questions.

It's a way for us to get feedback

and ideas from all of you.

Actually we are now with our three kids at home

and I told my wife some of the ideas

about we just gotta stick through it.

Well one of the home school parents told me that

on our homeroom live stream.

So it's just a way for all of us to feel connected

in a time of social distancing.

A little bit of community interstitial tissue

as people work on their various,

their various resources.

And so with that I encourage you,

students, parents and teachers,

put your questions, your comments, your ideas

on the message board below,

wherever you're seeing this.

Whether it is on Facebook.

Whether it is on YouTube or Twitter.

And we, Dan and I are going to get to 'em

and try to answer them.

And I'll start with a few quick ones.

See this is from Sonya, "Sal will you be making anymore

meditation videos, maybe one for parents and for teachers?

I need these now more than ever.

You could even read the phone book."

Well that's very generous

that you'd be willing to listen to me read the phone book.

I think you would get tired of that.

But no that's a good catalyst and I would love to do that.

For those of y'all who don't know,

I've gotten serious about meditation over the last

couple of years and you know meditation

can evoke different images in a lot of people's minds.

A lot of people view it as a spiritual thing

or a religious thing, but here we're just talking

about it in the most general possible way

which is just a tool kit to help

for us to become aware of our thoughts

to help still our minds.

For coping with some of what many of us

are going through right now.

And you know the first meditations we put out

this is actually only a few weeks ago.

Were student meditations for dealing with things

like stress and procrastination.

Many of y'all know that stress and anxiety

were already at record highs for a lot of

especially high school and college students.

Especially when it comes to test taking.

And so we wanted to help with that.

But this is a great idea Sonya.

I think we'd wanna do that.

Let's see.

We have Leo, says the question, "In a unit test

or course challenge, are they more difficult

than other questions?"

Good question, Leo.

So today, the way Khan Academy works is,

when you do an exercise,

the exercise might ask you to do five questions,

it's actually coming from a pool of 20 or 30 questions.

And so and whether you're doing an exercise,

a unit test, or a quiz,

it's coming from various pools of questions.

When you're doing unit tests

you're doing multiple skills.

So let's say a unit test has 15 questions in,

or 10 questions in it, it will then be sampling

from a pool of 300 questions.

It is possible that you see questions

that you have seen in the skill-focus practice

or the quizzes, or if you're taking a core challenge,

in the unit task, but it's unlikely, in fact,

it's very unlikely that you're getting a complete repeats.

And we've been doing a lot of analytics on this.

We think that the units tasks and core challenge

are actually very indicative

of where you currently are in your journey.

We are exploring things like making specialized unit tests

and core challenges that can only be accessed in that way.

But we're thinking about whether that will,

whether that will actually

be significantly better than what is there,

but that's the current thing that you have.

Questions from Dan, I think Dan's got some stuff

to share with us.

- Hi, thanks, Sal.

So, we have a great question from Shala Karimi,

apologies if I pronounce the name.

"I (mumbles), do you have any recommendations

on easy chapter books?"

- I don't have recommendations on easy chapter books,

but we have published resources

in our daily schedules for students.

So if you go to, you can just go to khanacademy.org,

there's a link to access the daily schedules.

If you're looking for easy chapter books,

I'm assuming that this would be probably

for elementary school aged students

who you wanna get ramped up reading in chapter books.

We have a link to a reading list

from experts on this subject for different grade levels.

And so I would got to that schedule,

click on that reading list on the part

where we talk about reading practice,

and then you're gonna see a list

of great easy chapter books.

One thing I recently found out from another parent

over the weekend, my wife told me about this,

is that it sounds like Audible,

that's the part of Amazon that has books on,

I guess, audio, that they've opened up

their kid section for free.

So I would also look at the kid section on Audible.

I think you'll get some really cool books

that your children can fall asleep to,

or might even be fun to,

everyone sit around the couch and listen to it together.

So those are my two starters to get you started

on the chapter books.

- Sal, I would add the team's actually putting together

a reading list and hopefully,

we're hoping to get that out next week as well,

broken up by age group and everything, so.

- Awesome, yeah, so you can use those resources

we have linked to, obviously,

Audible is audio versions of it, and as Dan just mentioned,

we're gonna make even clearer reading lists by grade level

in literally coming days.

- Question, Sal, from Mathematics C,

and this is really important one.

"Why are getting questions wrong so important?"

- So, getting questions wrong, and obviously,

you don't wanna get a question wrong

if you can get it right,

it's not like that's gonna do you any good.

But, a lot of times when you do anything in life,

whether it's math or free throws, anything,

when you fail, we oftentimes kind of beat up on ourselves,

sometimes get discouraged,

it hits our ego a little bit, our pride.

I'm like, aw, maybe I don't need to do this thing,

and you're oftentimes tempted to disengage.

And the thing to remember is,

that those times that you've failed,

you're kind of discovering your edge.

And it's when you operate in your edge

that you're going to grow the most.

And so there's even been research studies

that when people fail at something,

let's say a cognitive task like a math question,

but then they reflect why they failed, why they got it wrong

and how they could've done it differently,

that's actually when you form (mumbles).

Those of you who are familiar with things

like weightlifting oftentimes you'll hear people say,

oh, you should do some reps until failure.

Failure is a good thing,

it shows that you've had a real workout.

Sometimes failure has been stigmatized

because you're like, oh, if I fail a test,

that's bad, I got an F, or if I got a bad grade,

or if I get questions on a test,

and then it reflects on me.

And that's why at Khan Academy,

I just described how our items are created.

We wanna give you as many chances as possible

to show that you can become proficient in a concept.

And so, it's not that when you do it once,

you got 80%, you got 20% wrong,

all of a sudden you're just labeled 80% student forever.

You can keep going at it.

This idea generally speaking is called mastery learning,

it predates Khan Academy.

Many advocacy studies showing

that it can accelerate folks' learning.

It was just hard to implement, historically,

if you didn't have some tools

that can have almost an infinite number

of questions give you immediate feedback,

and be able to personalize the individual student's pace.

But that's why failure, when you fail on a question

that you can kind of engage in, you should reflect.

That's when your brain growing the most,

and you just have to reflect on why you got it wrong.

And then you're gonna, you're gonna

your growth will only accelerate.

Dan, more questions?

- Questions, yep, we have a question from Rebecca Dullah

who ask, "Will there be more classes

using Disney and Pixar resources?"

They're one of the more popular ones on our site.

- Yes, so for those of you who aren't aware

of what Rebecca is referring to,

we've had a partnership with Disney/Pixar,

I think with launched it about five or six years ago