Welcome to our daily live stream.

This is why we've almost,

we've been doing this for a little bit over two weeks.

For those of you all who are new to this,

the whole point of this is Khan Academy

is a not-for-profit, with a mission of providing

a free world-class education for anyone anywhere.

And over the last many years,

we've been building resources that start in pre-K

with Khan Academy kids through elementary,

middle, high school and the core of college, not just math,

not just videos, but deep interactive exercises,

dashboards for teachers, English and language arts,

history, sciences, SAT preparation.

And, that has made us very well-suited

to really step up for the country and the world

as we go through these school closures.

But we realize we need to do

as much as possible on top of that.

And so the whole point of this live stream

is for all of you who are using Khan Academy

or thinking about using Khan Academy

or just trying to navigate the school closures generally.

We wanted a place for folks to connect, and feel connected,

especially in this time of social distancing.

And so, every day it's very informal.

Myself and I gonna bring some team members on,

we sometimes have special guests,

we try to answer your questions

and I make any announcements that are relevant.

I do wanna start off with reminding everyone

we are not-for-profit,

we are funded by philanthropic support

from folks like yourself.

We were running at a deficit that even before this crisis

and with this crisis our server load is up,

is roughly 250% of what it normally is,

our registrations are six x from teachers

and parents of what it normally is.

Parent registrations are 20x.

So if any of you find yourself in a position

that you can donate, please think about doing so.

I wanna give a special shout out

to several corporations who've stepped up

in the last few weeks with very short notice to help us,

although we need more help.

Bank of America was the first followed by 18T,

google.org and Novartis but we need more help

from individuals and corporations.

We are literally going to go millions,

few weeks and months.

But with that said, I would love to,

I'll bring my colleague Dan on who helps me

answer all of the questions that we get on the live stream,

and I encourage all of you all to start asking questions

on whatever you're using, YouTube,

Facebook, whatever channel.

And, let's see,

it seems like there's already a couple of questions,

but then you can always jump in, but this question,

it's from YouTube, this is Crazy Cookie 3,908.

It's pretty impressive

that there were probably 3,973 before you.

Hey Sal, will there be summer classes?

Will this be all-year round?

That's actually a super powerful question,

Crazy Cookie 3,908.

You know, I think about two weeks ago,

the school closures were announced in this country

and really through the world,

there's 50 million students out of school in just the US

pretty much close to a billion globally,

and it happened so fast

because of just the health emergency.

And I don't think a lot of thought was no one had time

to think about what the implications

but now it's becoming clear that in most of the world,

the school closures actually might happen

through the summer.

And so, the way we've been thinking about this,

we wanna be able to support teachers,

parents, students over the next two months

so that we can keep the learning happening,

keep everyone learning, but we also see summer

as a really powerful opportunity to keep going.

There's no reason that once you've built the practices

and the habits to keep learning

over what would be the traditional school year,

that whether you're a student, parent or teacher,

that you can't go over those three months as well.

And that might be the silver lining of,

historically summer has been, you know,

there's the term summer slide,

it's been a time for a lost learning

and now we have an opportunity to do,

now we have an opportunity to make it a valuable

for learning purposes.

And so, yes, simple answer what we're trying to do

in response to the school closures and COVID,

we expect to be able to do through the summer.

And I think next school year is going to be interesting.

We all hope that the social distancing,

the school closures are not in place as of back to school.

Hopefully the summer temperatures

will help kill some of that virus, reduce the spread

but there is a possibility

that in October, November, December,

what's traditionally flu season

could actually make COVID go up again.

And so we also wanna think about if that happens,

how we can continue to support folks.

But, the big takeaway is summer is an opportunity

that we all have to keep everyone learning.

Excellent question.

All right.

So there's a another question.

This is from Facebook.

Dina Everett Nevos says, hi, I'm apparent and new to Khan,

I saw the sample daily agendas.

How do I link the daily schedule to my children's accounts?

Thanks.

Well, Dina, the schedules are very simple documents

and you can actually adapt them, you can copy and paste them

into your own docs and adapt them as necessary.

And those just have links

to the relevant part of Khan Academy.

And what if the student, if your child clicks on the link,

it will go to their Khan Academy and if they are logged in,

they will show up as a logged in users.

So, if they click from their computers

or whatever they're using, if they click on that, you know,

let's call it fifth grade English and language arts

on that document, they'll go to Khan Academy

and see fifth grade language arts,

and if they're not logged in, they can log in

and there'll be logged into fifth grade language arts.

And if they're already logged in on that computer,

they will be on their accounts.

So I think that's what you might be asking.

And that brings up another interesting thing is, you know,

we've made those schedules,

we made four different versions of them.

One for kind of the pre-K kindergarten first grade crowd,

one for the elementary crowd,

and then one for the middle school

and one for the late high school crowd.

And what you could do is then make them

even more fine tuned for your children's needs.

Because for example, for the late elementary crowd, we said,

okay, you might wanna use third grade

or fourth grade or fifth grade or sixth grade

or seventh grade math on Khan Academy

and depending on the strength of the student,

you might wanna remediate it or not

but you know all your children better than anyone

and they know themselves hopefully.

And so you can narrow that down, you know,

work on sixth grade or if you had some weak foundations,

work on fourth and fifth grade

while you work on sixth grade as well.

So I completely encourage you to fine tune

those schedules for your children's needs.

- So Sal, I would add next week

we are hosting some parent webinars for different age groups

specifically and we'll be going through both your,

the schedule that you created and kind of helping parents

find the right content for their kids

and dive in a little bit deeper on how to use Khan Academy

specifically matching to those schedules.

- Awesome.

- So Sal we have a question here.

Yeah, we have a great question on YouTube from our Arov Jane

who says, I'm in fourth grade,

I want to learn more about scientists,

can you post something on Khan Academy about that?

- So Arov, we want to help you.

We currently do not have what you could call

fourth-grade science on Khan Academy,

but we, and I hope over time we are able to add that

and I'll remind everyone we're not-for-profit.

The more support we get,

the more we can think about adding more subjects.

But, if you are genuinely interested in science,

I think there are places you can start.

I actually think that you could,

we have several, for example, even our high school biology,

I know you're only, I'm guessing nine years old,

and high school biology could seem daunting,

but I actually think some of the intro levels

of high school biology you could start to engage

in my oldest son is about,

is actually a little bit older than you,

my daughter is about your age.

And actually I've been doing stuff

even in some of the early chemistry,

high school chemistry units on, what's an element,

what's an atom, what's an atomic number?

I think these are types of things

you could completely understand

and it'll be really interesting,

especially some of the stuff in biology to understand,

you know, I was talking to my daughter

who's about your age this morning about what's a virus,

how the virus different than bacteria, are viruses living?

You know, what's the definition of life, what's RNA and DNA,

how do viruses replicate?

So this is obviously very, very important things

to think about that's very relevant to the world right now

and I encourage you to, depending on your interest

to start digging in and see what works for you.

See, other questions.

So this is from Facebook, Scott Yang asks,

I enjoyed the daily live streams,

will you do it again next week?

Yeah.

We are set to keep doing this

until no one wants us to do it anymore.

(laughs)

So no, no, we think this is super important

and I say it at the end of every live stream.

I myself in this time of social distancing

feel more connected by being able to do this

and I know a lot of our team here at Khan Academy does.

So, we wanna do it for sure, keep that connection going

and make sure that all of you feel supported.

So, from YouTube, Steven Amenzo says,

when was Khan Academy founded?

And Steven, if you do a web search, you'll find a lot of,

you know, talks on YouTube and other places

for me talking about that.

So if you want it in depth,

I recommend you you're doing that

but long story short, about 14, 50, actually 16 years ago.

I'm getting old.

My cousin Nadia, who was 12 at the time

needed help with math and I started tutoring her remotely.

Worked around my family that free tutoring was going on,

and so people, and so I started making resources

to scale it up.

At first it had nothing to do with videos.

I was creating the software part,

the early version of what you can now the practice software

in Khan Academy and then a friend suggested

that I make videos to supplement it