Welcome to our daily homeroom livestream.

For those of you who don't know what this is

(laughs) or what Khan Academy 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

from early learning all the way through elementary,

middle, high school, early college, math, science,

English language arts, and we always imagine that

it would be used in conjunction

with normal, physical classrooms

or it could be used by students outside of classrooms.

Maybe students in parts of the world

who might not have access to materials

or certain types of courses.

So we could've never foreseen the situation

that the world is now in,

but as soon as we saw the school closures happen

many weeks ago now,

it seems like a lifetime ago, I know, for many of us,

we realized that it's our duty as a not-for-profit

with this mission to step up.

And so, you can see here the resources

that we've been putting together

to essentially keep everyone learning.

And so, we've been doing things like this livestream,

which is just a way for us to stay connected

and answer any questions you might have.

But also, we've been doing parent webinars,

teacher webinars, we've been putting together

daily schedules for how you could structure your day

or your children's day or your student's day

if you're a teacher.

We just put out learning plans so that folks can understand

how they can pace themselves over the course of

the next six weeks to 20 weeks.

We ideally think most people should leverage the summer

so that you don't have that learning loss

and you're able to go to next school year

with as much learning under your belt as possible,

as prepared as possible.

So, that's the goal of this.

We bring on guests every now and then.

I do wanna give a special shout-out.

We are a not-for-profit.

We are funded through philanthropic donations.

We were already running at a deficit before this

and our deficit has increased

because now our load on our servers, et cetera,

are up over two and a half times what we normally see.

I wanna give a special thanks to Bank of America,

AT&T, Fastly, Google.org, and Novartis,

who are companies that have stepped up

just in the last few weeks in order to really

support our response to what's going on

with the school closures, and of course,

our long-time donors who help Khan Academy exist,

but we do need more support.

Whether it's an individual donor who's able to give

five, $10, all the way up to a corporation,

everything helps and allows us to support more folks,

especially folks who might not otherwise be able to afford

or have access to resources like that.

So, today, we're going to just do another ask me anything.

We have some exciting guests tomorrow.

We have a vice president from the college board to answer.

I know there's a lot of questions around the SAT

and implications for when the testing dates are

and implications for college admissions,

so we're gonna have a very robust conversation

about that tomorrow.

But for today, it'll be more of me and Dan,

my colleague is gonna help support

just any questions y'all have.

And I know there was a ton of questions from yesterday.

We can answer some of those,

but happy to take any questions y'all have.

So let's see, I have this one question I'm seeing is,

so from YouTube, Nikhil Govendar says,

Hi, Sal, I'm currently working on a project

that requires you to build an app.

Could you please give me any suggestions or ideas

on building an app?

Well, this is interesting, and actually,

if anyone else has suggestions or ideas

for Nikhil's app, feel free (laughs).

And Nikhil, whoever's suggestion you take, you know,

you owe them a cut, and if you leverage ours,

donate to Khan Academy. (laughs)

So, app ideas.

You know, it's funny, I'm always intrigued.

People before, on previous livestreams,

have said, Sal, if you weren't working on Khan Academy,

what other things would you wanna work on?

And I'm fascinated by anything

that can help make other people,

help people have richer lives

or maybe explore that whole side of happiness

and I had thought about it.

As far as I'm aware, no one's building it, maybe someone is,

a app that helps build relationships.

It could be relationships with friends,

it could be relationships with co-workers,

it could be relationships with a partner,

where you're able to essentially rate how you feel

about that relationship

and then you can benchmark your relationship

relative to other relationships

'cause you would have the data

on how other people are feeling about the relationship.

So I think that could be an interesting app

if you're in a corporation or at a school

to measure kind of team health or sentiment.

You could imagine in kind of a marriage setting,

you know, things that go on in marriages.

People normally, you know,

try to keep it behind closed doors,

but they don't know, you know.

Are we in the bottom quartile of marriages

or are we in the top quartile of marriages?

Do we argue an average amount?

So I think there's something interesting there.

It could be with parents and children.

You know, is this level of angst

that we're experiencing normal or is it isn't?

But if every parent was rating it,

maybe there's something interesting there.

So, that's one idea.

It's kind of a fun idea but I actually think

it could have legs behind it. (laughs)

I think there could be interesting apps around

just understanding yourself better.

You've seen kind of these personality type apps,

but I think things could, there is research

and mental health research and things

about activities or things that you can do

that will improve your wellbeing.

I think there could be interesting apps

for folks to help each other either

with some type of volunteer work,

or help tutor each other.

So those are the types of spaces

that I'd be interested in if I were making an app.

So, let's see.

From YouTube, Kate Grafe says as a pre-service teacher,

I was wondering how to implement collaborative learning

through remote learning,

and what does classroom management look like

in this scenario?

It's a great question, Kate.

And the world is figuring it out,

and I won't claim to be the expert here.

I've actually worked with a couple of teachers

in a couple of school districts trying

to figure it out myself.

I've tried to run a few sessions myself.

The only tips I could give you based

on my limited experience here with running real,

live virtual sessions

are the more interaction you can get, the better.

I think, as you can imagine,

that's always the best practice,

even if you're in person.

But especially if you're on a Google Meet, or Skype,

or Zoom session, it's that much more important

to pull out responses from the people who are there.

Because if you don't do that, it's essentially equivalent

to a video.

And then you might as well be a video.

So I would say try to pick out as much responses

as possible, depending on what platform you are using.

There are techniques, you can mute everyone

so you don't get all of their home noise and all of that.

And then you can call on people, say,

"Well, what do you think?"

I know that Zoom has gallery view,

which is a really nice way of seeing,

if you can fit everyone on one screen,

you can say, Okay, does anyone have a question?

You know, how do you feel about this?

You can say, how many of you support the proposition?

How many of you are against it?

And I think that type of interaction

really keeps the conversation going.

One thing that I do, I do this on the weekend with friends,

where we try to talk about just, you know,

how do we become better people?

When I finish the sessions, and I'm usually the moderator,

I go through all of the tiles on Zoom and I make sure

that I get a response from everyone.

I'm just like, hey, everyone, 30 seconds, one minute,

what's your takeaway from today?

How are you going to try to be different

or observe things differently over the course

of the next week?

So those are practices that I've seen work reasonably well

in a Zoom or Google Meet type scenario.

- Sal, you mentioned yesterday about kind of approaches

for kids who are either afraid of math

or are scared about tackling that subject.

We have a related question.

You talked about a process, but we have a question

from YouTube from ShockBlastYT.

Hi Sal, what's your opinion on growth mindset?

Yeah, a good question ShockBlast,

and for those of you who don't know,

growth mindset's this idea that you,

many times folks will have a growth mindset

or a fixed mindset.

A fixed mindset is, you think you either have the ability

or you don't.

Let's say in math, you say I'm a math person,

I'm gifted in math.

Or I'm not gifted in math, I'm not.

That's a fixed mindset either way.

Whether you have a positive fixed mindset

or a negative fixed mindset.

A growth mindset doesn't say I'm either good or bad

at something, a growth mindset would say,

well, I don't know how my capabilities,

the only way I'm able to push the envelope

is if I am willing to try things,

I'm willing to step out of my comfort zone,

and I'm willing to fail every now and then.

And when I fail, I don't just try to run away from that,

I reflect on why I failed

and how I could do it better next time.

And then I can keep going.

And as you can imagine, research has shown

is that folks with growth mindsets,

there's a strong correlation between growth mindsets

and people who are successful in the field.

And you might think that, okay,

I could get how the under-confident, fixed mindset people,

they're kind of psyching themselves out.

Oh, I'm not good at this subject, I'll never be,

so they don't even try.

But even the confident, or even,

let's call it the over-confident fixed mindsets

also don't do well.

So if you say, in your head you're like,

I am genetically a great math person.

What happens with a lot of those folks

is when they are faced with a challenge,

they don't want a data point that might undermine

their self perception.

So they actually might not tackle the hard problem.

Because it's like, well,

what if I get the hard problem wrong?