Why Sal Khan’t: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling - Punya Mishra’s Web
Two pieces crossed my feed recently, both about Sal Khan and the AI tutoring revolution that wasn’t. The first was Matt Barnum’s reported piece in Chalkbeat, where Khan himself acknowledged that…
This piece was also cross-posted on the Civics of Technology blog. This piece also has a followup post that you can find at Three Questions on Questions: On Asking, Knowing and Noticing Two pieces crossed my feed recently, both about Sal Khan and the AI tutoring revolution that wasn’t. The first was Matt Barnum’s reported piece in Chalkbeat, where Khan himself acknowledged that Khanmigo, the AI chatbot tutor he launched three years ago with world-changing ambitions, was “a non-event” for most students. “They just didn’t use it much,” Khan said. His own Chief Learning Officer, Kristen…
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