Sal Kahn: The Future is Here

FranklinCovey On Leadership

FranklinCovey

Management, Business

4.6 • 215 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Episode 310 | The future of education and learning is up for discussion in this episode of On Leadership. Author and founder of the Khan Academy, Sal Khan, shares his journey of starting Khan Academy and how it has grown to become a platform with over 150 million users worldwide. He emphasizes the importance of traditional skills like reading, writing, and math, as well as soft skills like communication and empathy. Khan predicts that the future of education will involve AI assistants that provide real-time feedback and support to students and teachers. In a corporate setting, Sal also encourages leaders to embrace AI technology and use it to improve productivity and quality. The Energy of Change—5 Leadership Behaviors to Drive Collective Action in a Fluid Landscape: Help your leaders prepare their teams to move through change and transform your organization’s approach to change by downloading and sharing this guide.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Franklin Covey's twice weekly podcast on Leadership with Scott Miller.
0:16.4	That's me.
0:17.4	I'm your host each week, 25 plus year associate of the Franklin Covey company.
0:21.4	It's my honor to be reinvited each week twice back into this seat where I have the opportunity
0:27.6	to help shine what is Franklin Covey's very big platform and bright spotlight on
0:32.5	the thought leaders from all around the world.
0:34.5	People have expertise in building a high-trust culture, executing strategy, how to finish
0:40.0	projects.
0:41.0	What is the science and motivation behind becoming an expert at relationships?
0:45.4	You name it.
0:46.4	We shine our spotlight on it.
0:48.2	Each week sometimes they are Franklin Covey, thought leaders other times they are friends
0:52.8	of the family so to speak like today, Salkan, who everyone in the world recognizes this
0:58.4	man's name as a futurist and innovator around educationally democratizing the way all
1:05.4	of us learn.
1:06.4	He, of course, is the founder of the Khan Academy amongst other great innovations.
1:11.3	His most recent book, The One World Schoolhouse, Education Reimagined, is one of many books
1:18.1	he is authored or is authoring, Salkan, welcome to On Leadership.
1:22.9	Thanks for having me.
1:24.2	I mean, let's debate.
1:25.2	Is your library better than my library?
1:27.4	What do you think, Salkan?
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