For those of y'all who aren't familiar with what this is,

ever since we had the mass school closures

because of the COVID-19

all of us at Khan Academy as a not-for-profit

with a mission of providing a free world-class education

for anyone anywhere realized that it's our duty

to do whatever we can to support students,

parents, and teachers through this crisis.

So, obviously over many years we've been building resources

in math, and English and language arts,

and early learning, Khan Academy Kids,

you can see Kodi Bear right behind me,

going all the way through

high school level sciences and SAT prep,

but we realized once the schools

were going to get closed that people needed even more.

So we've been doing webinars for parents and teachers

to understand how to structure things.

We've been releasing schedules on what students,

how they could structure their days

based on different age groups,

and we've been doing this live stream,

this Daily Homeroom so we can feel connected

in this time of social distancing.

We do have a cool announcement.

Just yesterday we released what we're calling

Learning Plans on Khan Academy

and I think you're gonna see some of the links.

There you go, the link is right there.

It's magical.

There, I can get my,

there you go. (chuckling)

Felipe is doing a better job, is getting fancier every day.

But if you go there what you're going to see

is we got a lot of feedback from,

especially students and parents saying,

"All right the schedules were useful.

"I can understand that I can do, maybe,

"40 minutes of math then take a break,

"then do 40 minutes of reading, et cetera, et cetera,

"but over the course of the next two months

"or even five months as we go through summer

"what are reasonable goals for me or for my child?

"How do I make sure either myself

"or my child is keeping up

"so that they're ready for next school year?"

So this is a week by week learning plan

that sets goals for you, if you're the student,

or your child if you're the parent, to be on track.

And this first Learning Plan we've done

is focused on math.

Khan Academy has much more than just math,

but math is one of those core subject areas

where it's really valuable to make sure

that you don't fall behind.

Obviously, even before this COVID crisis

we have talked a lot about

the importance of mastery learning,

about not being pushed ahead

while you still have gaps that accumulate over time,

these Swiss cheese gaps,

and Khan Academy can help fill you in.

And then you could imagine with five months

of not being in school now it's that much more important

to fill in those gaps and to keep learning.

And just to underline that our partners at the NWEA,

they're a non-profit assessment body,

they just released a report yesterday

'cause they have historical data

on what's known as the summer learning loss,

or the summer slide.

Normally you have three months of loss over the summer,

not just not learning, but oftentimes forgetting,

now it might be five months.

And in that world it could be as much

as a year of learning loss.

So please take a look at those learning plans

and give us feedback.

The other thing I'd like to,

just out of a shout out, a thank you,

Khan Academy, we are not-for-profit,

we are funded by philanthropic donations,

you own as much of Khan Academy as I,

or anyone else, it has no ownership,

it's a public charity, and we need your support.

Even before the crisis we were running at a deficit

and now our server costs, et cetera,

are going up many fold,

and we're trying to put out more support.

So if you're in a position to do so

please think about donating.

I do wanna give a special thanks

to several corporations who've stepped up recently

including Bank of America, AT&T, Google.org, and Novartis.

That's been a major help, but we need more.

We're still running at a deficit to do all of this.

So with that, today's live stream

I thought that we could have a little bit of fun.

We have fun all the time,

but we're gonna keep it a little bit freeform.

If you're watching this over YouTube,

or you're watching it over Facebook,

put any question you might possibly be curious about there.

We have team members that are looking at 'em,

and everything is fair game.

Dan is here and he's gonna help me out,

identifying what folks are saying.

But, you know, we're more than happy

to answer questions about some of what I just talked about.

How do you structure your day?

Questions about learning and education.

We're happy to at least think about questions about

some of the healthcare stuff that's going on

as much as we are qualified to do so.

Economic things, or just other things

that are going on in your life.

We're gonna, we're gonna...

Inside our organization

we have these things called "Ask Me Anything".

We're gonna make this an Ask Me Anything version

of our life stream, so ask us literally anything.

And let's see.

I'm gonna see some of our team members

are starting to put out.

So Susanna from YouTube,

Susanna Garcia Dominguez,

and Susanna you've been asking good questions

on this live stream (chuckles)

I remember your name off of YouTube, is asking

"Will you be releasing a learning plan for first grade?"

So that is an excellent question.

So your question by itself

is a little bit of a push for us to do it.

First grade is an interesting overlap subject

or grade level for us because Khan Academy Kids

goes up through first grade.

And then the Khan Academy that is not Khan Academy Kids,

we have to come up with a better name for that

'cause that's still for kids and adults,

it starts at that kindergarten first grade level.

So I think what your question is a really good push.

Hopefully over the next couple of days or weeks

we can work with the Khan Academy Kids team

to maybe put something together

or put something together that's a hybrid

of Khan Academy Kids and the math,

'cause these first learning plans are math focused

on non-Khan Academy Kids Khan Academy. (chuckling)

All right.

From Facebook Jacqui Riquelme says,

"Could you please share what software you use

"to record video lessons?

"I would love to use the writing tool

"to explain in better details with video for my students.

"Thank you so much."

So Jacqui it sounds like you might be a teacher,

and I know a lot of teachers even before this crisis

were interested in making, I guess you could say,

Khan Academy style videos.

And especially with school closures

it's even more important.

So, what I use, and it's good that it's right here.

So, let me see if I can

show this to you,

I'm picking it up. (mic thudding)

There's a little bit, ugh,

I'm bumping into all sorts of stuff.

This is a Wacom tablet I use.

I've upgraded over the years.

I use to have a, kind of a smaller $80 one.

I think this one costs about $200.

And it will come with a pen that looks like this.

And so that's what I use to write when I'm doing it.

This microphone that you see here,

this is the microphone that I use.

And, once again, all of this is kind of upgrade.

You don't needs these types of things to do a decent video.

If you just have even, you know,

your regular headphone microphone

that's probably sufficient.

In the first several years of Khan Academy

I had a $80 tablet and I just used a standard,

you know, $20 headset that you could find.

And I use an art program.

In the early days I was using Microsoft Paint (chuckling)

now I use SketchBook, SketchBook Pro.,

which is just a nice drawing application.

And the way that I capture the drawing

and my voice is I use Camtasia to screen capture.

And Camtasia isn't the only tool,

there's other tools that can allow you

to do some screen capture.

And I just,

what I do is I capture a portion.

I do a 1280x720 pixel rectangle of my art tool,

and that's why you don't see all the widgets and the tools

'cause they're outside of the recording window.

So that's what I do, I just click record.

I try to do things fairly informally.

I think it's really valuable when you're making videos

that it's not overly scripted

because I think the listener can detect

if you are going through it with them or not,

so I try to keep it reasonably extemporaneous

and low-key, but whatever works for you.

But, I encourage you to definitely keep going with that.

All right.

So from Facebook Rick Cornett asks,

"How can I set up a science curriculum

"for my sixth and seventh grader?

"Math is set up by grade level, but science is not."

That's a great question, Rick.

So Khan Academy, we don't yet.

It is our aspirations.

We don't yet have an explicit science curriculum

for middle school students.

With that said, and I've said this

a couple of times on the live stream,

I think a sixth grader, or a seventh grader is ready

to start engaging on parts of the high school sciences.

So for example, high school biology,

which is on Khan Academy.

I am confident that your children,

especially if you're there to support them,

can start learning the basics of biology.

And frankly, it's very relevant right now

to learn about DNA, RNA, viruses, bacteria,

evolution, natural selection.

Obviously, with the viruses,

evolution and natural selection is happening

before our eyes in real time.

So I would definitely look at the high school biology

as a great thing for potentially sixth

or seventh graders.

They definitely have the math background for it.

And then even the early units in chemistry

where you're learning about the periodic table of elements,

what elements are, the basics of bonding,

the basics of balancing chemical equations.

There's nothing there that's cognitively beyond

a sixth or a seventh grader.

Especially, if they have some supports.

And physics is a little bit more mathematical,

but there is even elements of the physics where,

you know, maybe the one dimensional motion or Newton's Laws

could be a really interesting thing to tackle.

And if your students or your children

are able to do that now

they're going to have a serious leg up