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How Khan Academy Is Building a Better AI Tutor: Our Most Recent Learnings

Khan Academy shares how it improved its AI tutor Khanmigo with faster responses, smarter data use, and better student learning outcomes.

Learning in the Open: What AI Is (and Isn’t) Changing

Khan Academy shares what’s working with AI tutoring, what isn’t, and what we’ve learned from Khanmigo to better support student learning.

Khan Academy's Engineering Principles

⭐ Read about our 2019 revision of the principles! ⭐ By Ben Kamens You know those super-frustrating movie ... Read more

Three Questions on Questions: On Asking, Knowing and Noticing

This was Kristen DiCerbo, Khan Academy’s Chief Learning Officer, in a recent Chalkbeat article. She was offering her explanation for why Khanmigo hadn’t lived up to its promise. I was reminded of a…

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🚨New preprint!🚨Excited to share my 1st PhD project with @BonanZhao @cocosci_lab @natvelaliTeaching is a powerful way to pass on "tools for thought" to solve new problems. How well do existing teaching models of teaching capture this process?Link: https://t.co/nX4SbsCPXU— Ham Huang (@Huang_Ham) August 28, 2024

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I think that teaching works well for Sagittarius midheaven people because we are so delusional that we believe in potential in people even when we can’t see it yet. We are not trying to see the world for how it functions right now. We’re trying to see what it could become.

Methodologies for Improving the Quality of AI Tutoring in K-12 Education

Many AI tutors leverage large language models (LLMs) today. Given that LLMs are opaque black boxes, robust evaluation and live experimentation to measure the impact of every change are essential. We pioneered AI-powered tutoring for K-12 with the launch of Khanmigo (Khan Academy 2023). We describe the metrics we use to measure AI tutoring quality and student engagement as well as various experiments we have run. We highlight the changes that have moved our metrics, including models, prompting, personalization and agents.

CULTUREHUB — Interview with Spencer Chang

Scribble August 13, 2026

Stephen Janaway

Keynote speaking, technical leadership and coaching for aspiring technical leaders

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Holy crap. This is possibly the most insane job posting I've seen.Founders School is hiring a "Simulation Game Director" for $400,000 a year. That's just the base salary.If you haven't heard of Founders School, they're a radical new high school launching in New York City this… pic.twitter.com/sYjJZGkGA9— Andrew Yeung (@andruyeung) July 27, 2026

21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google

Lessons learned from 14 years of engineering at Google, focusing on what truly matters beyond just writing great code.

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