1. Khan Academy A New Approach to Education By: Stacey Boykin

2. What is the Academy? An online, non-profit educational organization Belief is to “provide a high quality education to anyone, everywhere” Offers more than 3,400 mini lessons via YouTube on the following: –Math, Science, Computer Science, Finance & Economics, Humanities, & Test Preps

3. The Idea Behind the Academy Founder, Salman Khan, was tutoring family member’s remotely Initially just used Yahoo’s Doodle notepad but moved to tutorials via YouTube Discovered that not only family member’s found the information useful, so did other people

4. Example from website Below: Explaining Heart Disease

5. Humanizing Education Different approach to education Assign tutorials to students the night before Do worksheets and assignments in class

6. www.khanacademy.org

7. Works Cited Khan Academy. (n.d.). Khan Academy. Retrieved September 18, 2012, from http://www.khanacademy.org/ Khan Academy. (n.d.). Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved September 18, 2012, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Academ y