Ask me anything with Sal Khan: April 10 | Homeroom with Sal

Hello everyone! Welcome to Khan Academy's daily homeroom. For those of you all who aren't familiar with what this is, ever since we had the mass school closures because of the COVID-19, all of us at Khan Academy, which is a not-for-profit with a mission of providing a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere, realized that it's our duty to do whatever we can to support students, parents, and teachers through this crisis.

So, obviously, over many years, we've been building resources in math, English, language arts, and early learning. Khan Academy Kids—you can see Kody Bear right behind me—goes all the way through high school level sciences and SAT prep. But we realized when the schools were going to get closed that people needed even more support.

We've been doing webinars for parents and teachers to understand how to structure things. We've been releasing schedules on how students could structure their days based on different age groups. And we've been doing this live stream, this daily homeroom, so that we can feel connected in this time of social distancing.

We do have a cool announcement! Just over yesterday, we released what we're calling learning plans on Khan Academy. I think you're going to see some of the link. There you go, the link is right there. It's magical! There! I can get my—there you go! What Philippe is doing is a better job—it's getting fancier every day. But if you go there, what you're going to see is we got a lot of feedback from especially students and parents, saying, "Alright, the schedules were useful! I understand that I could do maybe 40 minutes of math and take a break, too, and do 40 minutes of reading, etc., etc."

But over the course of the next two months or even five months as we go through summer, what are reasonable goals for me or for my child? How do I make sure that either myself or my child is keeping up so that they’re ready for next school year?

So this is a week-by-week learning plan that sets goals for you, if you're the student, or for your child, if you're the parent, to be on track. This first learning plan we've done is focused on math. Khan Academy has much more than just math, but math is one of those core subject areas where it's really valuable to make sure that you don't fall behind. Obviously, even before this COVID crisis, we have talked a lot about the importance of mastery learning, about not being pushed ahead while you still have gaps that accumulate over time—these Swiss cheese gaps—and that Khan Academy can help fill in those gaps.

You can imagine with five months of not being in school, now it's that much more important to fill in those gaps and to keep learning. Just to underline that, our partners at the NWEA, they are a nonprofit assessment body. They just released a report yesterday because they have historical data on what's known as the summer learning loss or the summer slide. Normally, you have three months of loss over the summer—not just not learning, but oftentimes forgetting. Now it might be five months, and in that world, it could be as much as a year of learning loss.

So please take a look at those learning plans and give us feedback. The other thing I'd like to just set a shout-out of thank you—Khan Academy, we are not-for-profit. We are funded by philanthropic donations. You own as much of Khan Academy as I or anyone else; it has no ownership—it's a public charity, and we need your support. Even before the crisis, we were running at a deficit, and now our server costs, etc., are growing up many-fold, and we're trying to put out more support.

So if you're in a position to do so, please think about donating. I do want to give a special thanks to several corporations who've stepped up recently, including Bank of America, AT&T, google.org, and Novartis. That's been a major help, but we need more. We're still running at a deficit to do all of this.

So with that, today's a live stream. I thought we could have a little bit of fun. We have fun all the time, but we're going to keep it a little bit freeform. If you're watching this over YouTube or Facebook, put any question you might possibly be curious about there. We have team members that are looking at them, and everything is fair game. Dan is here, and he's gonna help me out identifying what folks are saying. But, you know, we’re more than happy to answer questions about some of what I just talked about—how do you structure your day? Questions about learning and education, we're happy to at least think about questions about some of the healthcare stuff that's going on, as much as we are qualified to do so. Economic things or just other things that are going on in your life.

We’re gonna—inside our organization, we have these things called "Ask Me Anything." We're gonna make this an "Ask Me Anything" version of our live stream, so ask us literally anything! And let's see—I'm gonna see some of our team members are starting to put out—so Susana from YouTube, Susana Garcia Dominguez, and since I know you've been asking good questions, I remember your name off of YouTube as asking, "Will you be releasing a learning plan for first grade?" So that is an excellent question!

That your question by itself is a little bit of a push for us to do it. First grade is an interesting overlap subject or grade level for us, because Khan Academy Kids goes up through first grade, and then the Khan Academy that is not Khan Academy Kids—we have to come up with a better name for that, because that's still for kids and adults—starts at that kindergarten/first-grade level. So, I think your question is a really good push. Hopefully, over the next couple of days or weeks, we can work with the Khan Academy Kids team to maybe put something together that's a hybrid of Khan Academy Kids and the math because these first learning plans are math-focused on non-Khan Academy Kids.

Alright, from Facebook, Jackie Raquelle says, "Could you please share what software you used to record video lessons? I would love to use the writing tool to explain in better detail with video for my students. Thank you so much!" So Jackie, it sounds like you might be a teacher, and I know a lot of teachers even before this crisis were interested in making, I guess you could say, Khan Academy style videos, and especially with school closures, it's even more important.

So what I use—and it's good that I'm—that it's right here—so let me see if I can show this to you. I'm thinking there's a little bit of bumping into all sorts of stuff. This is a Wacom tablet I use. I've upgraded over the years. I used to have a kind of a smaller $80 one. I think this one costs about $200, and it will come with a pen that looks like this. And so that's what I use to write when I'm doing it. This microphone that you see here, this is the microphone that I use. And once again, all of this is kind of an upgrade; you don't need these types of things to do a decent video. If you just have even, you know, your regular headphone microphone, that's probably fine.

In the first several years of Khan Academy, I had an $80 tablet, and I just used a standard, you know, like $20 headset that you could find. I used an art program—in the early days, I was using Microsoft Paint. Now I use SketchBook Pro, which is just a nice drawing application, and the way that I capture the drawing and my voice is I use Camtasia to screen capture. And, Mac Camtasia isn't the only tool; there are other tools that can allow you to do some screen capture.

What I do is I capture a portion; I do a 1280 by 720 pixel rectangle of my art tool, and that's why you don't see all of the widgets and the tools, because they’re outside of the recording window. So that's what I do. I just click record. I try to do things fairly informally. I think it's really valuable when you're making videos that it's not overly scripted because I think the listener can detect if you are going through it with them or not. So I try to keep it reasonably extemporaneous and low-key. But whatever works for you, I encourage you to definitely keep going with that.

Alright, so from Facebook, Rick Cornett asks, "How can I set up a science curriculum for my 6th and 7th grader? Math is set up by grade level, but science is not." That's a great question, Rick! So Khan Academy, we don’t yet—it is our aspiration—we don’t yet have an explicit science curriculum for middle school students. With that said, and I've said this a couple of times on the live stream, I think a 6th grader, a 7th grader, is ready to start engaging on parts of the high school sciences.

So for example, high school biology, which is on Khan Academy, I am confident that your children, especially if you're there to support them, can start learning the basics of biology, and frankly, it's very relevant right now to learn about DNA, RNA, viruses, bacterial evolution, natural selection. Obviously, the viruses’ evolution and natural selection is happening before our eyes in real time.

So I would definitely look at the high school biology; that’s a great thing for potentially 6th or 7th graders. They definitely have the math background for it. And then even the early chemistry, where you're learning about the periodic table of elements, what elements are, the basics of bonding, the basics of balancing chemical equations—there's nothing there that's cognitively beyond a 6th or 7th grader, especially if they have some supports. Physics is a little bit more mathematical, but there is even elements of the physics where, you know, maybe the one-dimensional motion or Newton's laws could be a really interesting thing to tackle.

If your students—your children—are able to do that now, they’re gonna have a serious leg up when they get to true high school-level science. So let's see, we have another question here. Well, when I picked up my tablet, everything got messed up. Let’s see. So from Facebook, S Wayne Smith says, "Will you consider Khan Academy project-based learning activities?" Great question!

So this is something we've always thought about doing, and back in the day we actually released a few pieces of content on it. But I think the lens you're asking is this: while schools are closed or as we go into the summer, maybe in these learning plans, we can articulate things to do above and beyond the traditional academic skill development or the stuff that could reinforce that. So I think that's a great idea. This is if our team—or maybe we can partner with some folks who could maybe supplement the learning plans and the schedules with that type of resource, I think it would be cool, and it's just a matter of our capability and our bandwidth.

But I definitely think there's value in that! So yeah, I have a question for you. This is asked for almost every single live stream that we do—it’s a question on how did you start Khan Academy—and probably more importantly, people don't know about this part, which is who did you go to for help? Who did I go to help when I started Khan Academy, or like when I needed help when I was a kid, who did you go to when you started for help when you started Khan Academy? Oh, yeah! So for those of you all who don't know, and you can probably do a YouTube search and find videos of me giving a long-winded explanation of how Khan Academy started, I've been running off of that story for a long time.

But still, there are a lot of folks who still don’t maybe know that story as much. Back in 2004, I had just gotten married. My original background was in technology and in math, but I had gone to business school and I was now working as an investment analyst of all things.

It just came out of conversation after my wedding. My 12-year-old cousin Nadia at the time was visiting, and she was having trouble in math. So I said, "Nadia, I am confident that you can master mathematics. How about when you go back to New Orleans—which is also where I was born—I'm willing to tutor you remotely?" I was living in Boston at the time, and she agreed.

Like many of you students listening, she was 12 years old; she wanted to learn, but for some, you know, for many reasons, she had accumulated gaps in her knowledge and had convinced herself that maybe she wasn't "good" at math. Many of you parents might relate—her mom Nazareth, auntie, you know, she was saying, "Yeah, I'm worried about Nadia! She’s losing her confidence here!" And so those tutoring sessions I was doing it remotely—I think a lot of you teachers are finding yourselves in that kind of a circumstance now because of the closures—and I was getting on the phone. We didn’t have things like Zoom and Hangouts and live streams back then, but I was trying to find ways that we could see each other's writing and things like that.

But slowly but surely, Nadia was able to catch up with her class. She was actually having trouble with unit conversion. Then she actually got a little bit ahead of her class. Then I became what I call a "tiger cousin," and I called up her school and I said, "You know, I really think Nadia Rahman should retake that placement test from last year that put her in that current math track."

And you know, they famously said, "Who are you?" And I said, "I'm her cousin," and they let her surprisingly take that test. And that same Nadia who thought she wasn't good at math only a few months before was then put into an advanced class. And that same Nadia, who thought that she couldn't understand unit conversion when she was 12, by the time she was 13, she was taking college-level classes at the University of New Orleans.

I tell you that story only partially to show off on behalf of my cousin, but more to tell many of you parents and many of you students out there that are thinking that you are not good at something—it has nothing to do with your innate ability. Those subject matters are not fundamentally different; it's likely because you have gaps. And that's where Khan Academy hopefully has your back.

You know, the silver lining of what we're going through right now over the next two months and probably the next five months is this is a great opportunity to leverage Khan Academy to fill in those gaps. We had Tim Vanderburgh on a couple of days ago—an amazing teacher out of history in California—who makes all of his sixth graders start Khan Academy at the very basic, starting with the arithmetic course, which starts literally at 1+1. But if you know that material, you go through it really fast. But that’s the way he ensures that his kids don’t have gaps.

He has a student population that starting the year—90% is well below grade level—and then he finishes the year where they are able to fill in their gaps, and most of them are accelerated or are able to move ahead. Anyway, going back to the story, I was kind of hooked. I started tutoring Nadia's younger brothers as well, then word got around my family that free tutoring is going on. I found myself with 10-15 cousins and family friends around the country.

I had this background in software engineering and said, "Well, there aren’t good resources for my cousins to get practice and immediate feedback. What if I could make some of that and also provide a dashboard for me as their coach, their teacher, or their tutor so that I could understand where their gaps were?" So that was the first Khan Academy. It had nothing to do with videos, which many people associate with.

In 2006, I was showing off this software to a friend at a dinner party. As you can imagine, I'm a very fun dinner party guest, and he said, "Sal, this is all cool, but how are you scaling your actual lessons up?" And I said, told him—his name is Uli Ramzan, have to give him full credit—I said, "Zuly, it's hard to scale my lessons. I feel like I'm repeating the same thing, I'm answering the same questions oftentimes over and over."

He says, "Well, why don't you record some of your lessons as YouTube videos and upload them for your cousins?" I initially thought it was a horrible idea. I said, "No, YouTube is for cats playing piano!" But I got home that weekend, got over the idea that it wasn't my idea, and I gave it a shot. And then that took on a life of its own!

I could go more in depth, but by 2009, I just had, frankly—this was about three, four years into this cousin project, five years into it—I had trouble focusing on my day job. There were about 100,000 people who were using it every month, and I said, "Surely, if I set this up as a not-for-profit, philanthropists will donate to this because the impact we could have on the world is huge if we translate it into the language of the world and go across subjects and grades."

Whenever you try anything entrepreneurial, you have to start with that delusional optimism that surely the world will conspire to make this happen, and you usually realize quite quickly that it was a little bit delusional. After about eight or nine months of living off of savings, and openly, it was probably one of the most stressful times in my life. I had given up a good career, and my first child had just been born.

But after about ten months, all of a sudden some philanthropists started to come out of the woodwork, and by 2010, we were able to become a real organization. Anyway, you got me on my soapbox telling the origin story of Khan Academy, but I'm happy to answer any other questions you have on that front as well.

Sal follows up to that: "Oh yes, so on YouTube, Sophia says, 'Great! Where is Nadia now?'" And she also has a sister called "Not Yet." Good! So Nadia is now—if I'm doing the math correctly—she is 28 years old. She lives in New York. I was just Zoom conference calling with her and her family a couple of nights ago. Obviously, everyone's worried about the situation, especially in New York, but she is doing a master’s and hopefully a Ph.D. as well in clinical psychology. She wants to become a kind of a clinical psychologist, therapist-type person. So we’re very proud of her! She is doing well, although I often joke with her that there’s a lot riding on her success—better early intervention ends up!

Anyway, yeah, she’s on track! And Sal, Facebook Scott Yang on Facebook asked, "Why is there a giant bear behind you?" I don't think everyone knows who Kody is! There's a giant bear behind me. Oh yeah, you're right! There's a giant bear! But no, so my mom has actually kept saying, "I like these live streams, but your background is really horrible! You have some random junk behind you! You have to fix your back!"

So I actually went looking this morning. Right before this, I was actually on CNN, and my mom's like, "If you're gonna be on CNN, you got to get a good background, Sal!" And I just started digging around for what we have that could make a decent background, and this is what I found. For those of you who don't know, this is Kody Bear gazing over my shoulder. He's kind of the primary character in Khan Academy Kids, so this is a reminder, too, that that's available for you! And maybe, you know, having Kody glare at you will be a reminder to keep learning.

So let’s see—I see a bunch of questions here, Dan, but feel free to jump in with more!

Morrissey on YouTube asks, "What do I do when my brain gets stressed in reading or math?" So there's a lot to unpack with what that might be. You know, one thing that I've talked a lot about in this live stream and other places is just the value of meditation. Meditation does not have to be something fancy; it literally can be, before you embark on something, you give yourself two minutes. Just sit there, and you know, close your eyes if it's useful, soften your gaze and just try to observe your thoughts.

What you find is, the more you do it and the more consistently you do it, you start to realize that you aren't your thoughts—that you can observe your thoughts. The more that you can observe your thoughts, the less overwhelming that they can become. You know, I think we've all felt some of what you might be feeling, RF, which is, you know, you're reading something and you're like, "Wait! Did I understand that properly?" and you keep rereading that same sentence.

I used to do that a lot! I think in math, you know, you're in a test or something, or you're doing a problem and you're like, "You know, there's a process in your brain to say, 'Oh! Well, you know how to do it. This is hard. What if you don't know? I get this answer right? You might fail your math class!'" That becomes a little bit debilitating because it doesn't allow your brain to enter into a state of flow.

So that's one tip I have: Meditation! Actually, physical exercise can be there—there is some evidence, actually a lot of evidence, that just getting that brain flowing, running, etc., releases those endorphins. And then when you sit down to do something like reading or math or anything that you might find stressful in your life, you just realize that you know you’re just gonna do it! See what happens!

The more that you give yourself permission to just be in the moment, don't try to think too much about what's happened in the past or what might happen in the future, but just like, "Oh! This is fun! I'm here! I'm this sentient being in the universe that is going to read this entertaining book, or that gets to puzzle through these interesting math questions!" I think you have that attitude, and it can really help. You know, I've considered myself lucky that, throughout my life, I've always kind of taken a fun attitude, a kind of an adventurous attitude whenever I see a test or something, and I think it’s really helped me.

I’m like, "Oh! This is fun! It's a bunch of puzzles!" I don’t try to think too much about what the outcomes might be, because that can be a little bit stressful sometimes.

How was that? Wonderful! We have a related question from Selena Chang on YouTube: "Hi Sal, how can I find a passion project to pursue while in high school?" Great question, Selena! So meditation might help there—sit under the tree for a little while and have an enlightenment experience! What I would do is just really reflect: Keep a lookout in the world for where are their problems to be solved.

This crisis we’re in is highlighting a lot of problems that have always existed and they’re introducing a set of new ones. I've talked in this live stream; I think there's many opportunities for service projects right now. It could be figuring out safe ways to get groceries for, say, elderly people in your community, ways to get food. You know, we're going through a financial situation where a lot of people have lost their jobs, and I never thought it would be this way in the United States, but there could be—there are people probably not too far from where you live who are worried about where their next meal is going to come from!

So are there ways to coordinate just dropping off the basics to folks—milk, eggs, bread, things like that? Or are there ways to help with some of the social dilemma? People are feeling you know my mom, she's living by herself in New Orleans, and you know she’s the age population that’s high risk for COVID.

So she—and she’s watching the news all day and she’s getting stressed. I've been telling you know it's always important for me to keep in touch with my mom, but even more like for her mental health, it's super important for me to keep connected and that she can see my kids and that she doesn't feel isolated.

But there are a lot of people in her situation who might be a little bit older who are alone at home who might not have someone who is checking in with them on a daily basis, so maybe there are opportunities around that. If you're more inclined on the invention side of things, you know, are there gloves you can create that not only protect you but disinfect things as you touch them? You know, you can imagine a glove that is made of some material—or it's doused in some material—that when you use it, not only does it protect you, but it protects other people as well.

I mean, you can keep imagining more and more things that could help solve a lot of problems for the world right now or could have solved problems that existed even before. But I would just reflect on that! And then when you feel some energy around something, just run with it! As I've talked about in other live streams, there's an opportunity here—the silver lining is a lot of the things that historically keep young people super busy with, you know, hours of homework every night and this practice and that practice, a lot of that's gone now.

So you have more time to be able to dig deep into something. If it's coding, there are resources on Khan Academy. People talk about project-based learning; that is one area where Khan Academy has what I would describe as project-based learning to be able to code and create things. You can make apps to solve interesting problems!

So yeah, you know, the world's your oyster right now; it's a great opportunity to do that type of thing. But make sure it's something that appeals to you! You're not trying to do it for other people; you're not saying, "Oh! How will this look on a college application?" Do it because it’s authentically something you're interested in.

And by the way, if you do that, it actually will look good on the application because it'll be truly you, and it'll be authentic! So there are questions. Let’s see: From Facebook, Sandra Edwards asks, "So much has changed over the last month; what positive changes have you noticed coinciding with more people being online?"

Well, you know, it’s hard to talk about too many positive things in it because it's a tough, tough period right now. Some of the positive things I've seen, and this transcends Khan Academy, is, you know, what I just talked about—this crisis has made me realize that I have to stay connected with more of my friends and family, many of whom I might have not spoken to for a while.

So I'm making sure that I'm calling up cousins and uncles and friends from high school. So in a strange way, the social distancing is making us think beyond just the people that we normally see on a day-to-day basis, so that might be a silver lining that we’re connecting with a lot more people. I think this crisis reminds us of what's really important.

All of us get caught up in the day-to-day. If you’re a student, you're like, "Oh, I got that assignment due; I got that homework! Am I gonna take the SAT? College—what's my career choice?" But if you think about it, those are important things, and obviously, U.S. adults—we're always thinking about, "Oh, you know, that project I'm working on, or that next goal, or that next event or whatever it might be."

All of those things are important, but they’re not the most important thing. The most important thing is your health, your mental health, your connections, your support networks. I think it’s times like this when you realize just how fragile we are—how fragile and in certain ways, society can be—that it refocuses you on, you know, the really important things, the things that really fulfill us as human beings versus these hoops that we keep jumping through our whole lives.

Maybe when we’re older we realize, "Why did we jump through so many hoops? Why didn’t I spend more time with my parents while they were alive? Why didn’t I connect with those cousins when I had a chance?" Et cetera, et cetera.

So I think that is bringing that. You know, we're spending more time with family—that's positive. On the education side of things that—this is a very suboptimal situation, but the silver lining is some of these techniques that are having to happen where students are having to build a little bit more independence, a little bit more agency, and they’re still supported by parents and teachers—that skill is actually a super valuable skill.

It’s more valuable than, you know, knowing how to do polynomials—to be learning how to learn. I'm hoping for the students who are able to build that muscle—hopefully many of you all are listening right now—that's gonna pay dividends if you can keep applying it in the summer and keep applying it your whole life because it's not like, you know, the days of going to K-12 and then going to college and then just having skills that you will use the rest of your life until you retire—those days are over.

You're going to have to be a lifelong learner, and so it's a great time to kind of take that agency on your own. That could be a silver lining as well! But obviously, you know, if I were to list a lot of the suboptimal things right now, this would get long.

But a good question to focus on the silver linings! So let's see, there's a question from Facebook, Seif Siddiqui asks, "Can you please add subjects of Commerce as per Indian Curriculum please?" So aside, that's actually a subject close to my heart. As I described, my career before Khan Academy was I was a financial analyst, and so we actually do have—it's not mapped to the Indian curriculum—but I will say, if you want the intuition of finance and accounting, Khan Academy does have some resources for you already.

So feel free to look at that content! I made a lot of that, actually, when I was a financial analyst, and I saw that, you know, even some of the junior analysts that we were hiring who went to fancy colleges with 4.0 GPAs when I asked some very basic questions like, "Okay, there's two identical houses. The rent on one house is X; the other house costs Y to buy, which one should I buy: rent or buy?" and they're like, "Uh, I'd buy the second house!"

And I’m like, “Okay! Now that price is doubled on the second house while the rent is the same on the first house! Now which one?” And they’re like, "Oh, you’re right!" So we try to give those types of frameworks of how you can think how very complex situations in the economy or finance could be broken down into fairly simple and intuitive frameworks. So definitely check some of that content out, and I hope in the future we can do something like a more formal finance accounting, capital markets type course on Khan Academy!

We actually have a lot of personal finance content—it's a partnership with Bank of America around better money habits. We also have some career content around that, so check that content out as well! So let's see, there is a question—YouTube Explorer Questioner asks, “So it's a testimonial.” Well, that's nice. You're saying, "Amazing Sal! You're being generous. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to better myself and make myself useful and find more purpose in my life." Well, Explorer Questioner on YouTube, that’s why all of us here at Khan Academy—we’re clear! Khan Academy is much more than me and much more than me and Dan.

There are 200-plus other folks who are doing a lot of work, thousands of people! But that’s why we wanted to dedicate our lives to this mission: because at the end, if we can empower millions of folks, that’s going to have a multiplier effect for the world. You know, I sometimes daydream that, you know, the person who one day can find the vaccine for the next pandemic or solves an energy crisis or brokers peace between nations in not too far our future says, "Yes, and I'm in this position because I was able to get my start or with some help from Khan Academy."

So it really is motivating for us to hear those types of things! So from YouTube, Quality Material asks, "Firstly, Mister Sal, how are you dealing with the quarantine? Hope you're doing well!" So Quality Material, Mister Material, maybe I should call you—thanks for asking! I’m doing fine! You know, obviously this is a challenging time for everyone but I remind myself the whole world is going through this, and relatively speaking, I find myself in a very fortunate situation!

You know, knock on wood, I have my health, my family does. We are—you know, we have a backyard, we have a park nearby that we can go to, staying socially distanced appropriately. You know, my kids are—I’m really enjoying time with my kids. You know, it's hard at first trying to do work, and at the same time, they're screaming in the next room, but we've kind of got a new normal now, and once again, it's reminded me like, you know, sometimes when you're doing work, and your child is screaming or saying "Dada, Dada, Dada! Let me show you the thing I made!"

You’re kind of like, "Oh, will you go away for a second? I need to finish this really important email!" But there's something about this crisis that makes you say, "Well, maybe this email isn't as important as hanging out with my eight-year-old or whatever." So I've actually enjoyed it, to kind of recenter myself in a lot of ways.

I think my wife and I, you know, we were just talking yesterday about, you know, having all of various events or social things or things you have to go to, travel—all get cancelled, and just us being home and having quality time, and it's kind of nice! So I consider myself very fortunate! Obviously, I have a job where not only do I have a job now—many people who are working in restaurants and other, you know, they're losing their jobs now, so for those of us who are able to keep working and keep having an income—incredibly fortunate!

And I consider myself fortunate that we have a role to play to help in this situation—on that education dimension and getting information out. So thanks for asking, but I consider myself very, very lucky! I hope you're doing well as well, Mister Material!

So we are almost out! We actually are out of time; I may be having too much fun! But we're here every day, and we're gonna do more of these just super open-ended "Ask Me Anything" sessions. I'm really enjoying the questions, and all I'll say is thanks for joining! Hope everyone has a really, really good weekend, and I'll just remind folks, if you're in a position to do so, we are not-for-profit. We are running at a deficit, and every donation matters!

So anything you could do to help support Khan Academy would mean a lot. Thank you, and stay safe and healthy!