New Hampshire Summer Learning Series Session 1: The Student Khanmigo Experience

All right, well good morning everyone. Um, welcome to the first of our series of the New Hampshire summer learning series, and my name is Danielle Sullivan. Um, I'm excited I've met actually many of you, so hello nice to meet you again. Um, and for those of you watching the recording, I'm the senior regional manager of Northeast District Partnerships, and I'm leading the charge on this New Hampshire Academy partnership. Barbara Campbell, she'll be joining us in a little bit; she is the New Hampshire District Success Manager.

So today I'm going to do a deep dive into the student-facing tutor, Kigo, and then at the end, uh, we'll talk a little bit more about next steps. Just to remind everybody of the next steps, Barbara is going to be the one who will reach out to you to, uh, schedule the kickoff call and start enrolling students. Crystal Hercules is going to be the professional learning specialist for um, all of the districts in New Hampshire, and we are still figuring out how many people are enrolling and what districts are enrolling, and then we'll, uh, release our professional learning plan um, in a little bit.

So I did ask this live, but I'm curious if you want to come off mute or if you want to just share in the you can show me one, two, three, or four. Did I freeze? Okay, you are freezing in and out a bit. Yeah, I'm hardwired too. You know what, y'all, like I swear to God I'm hardwired. I don’t know, there was a huge—did you all have huge storms in New Hampshire last night? Okay, I'm in Nor—I'm in New York, and we had crazy storms last night, so I don't know if that affected the internet.

Okay, so I'm sorry. Um, Jacqueline, you had your hands up. Were you a four? You're a two, and a one—oh, three! You're a three. Okay, we got some threes. A little hesitant. All right, perfect. So what we're going to talk about today is we are focusing on learning, and I want to just give you a deeper dive into what Khan Academy can do for your students and then how the student-facing tutor is going to help. And I'm going to show you two different modes: there's companion mode, where it lives within the context of KH Academy content, and then the other activities that you can utilize in your schools.

And please stop me at any point to ask any questions, okay? Does that work? So just another quick overview: who we are Khan Academy—we are a nonprofit; our goal is to provide free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. The history started with Sal Khan, who was uh, tutoring his cousins, and then it started to snowball. He put videos on YouTube, then they developed the platform, which will and always be free. But the biggest impact to move the needle on student learning, we found as a company, happens in school districts, which is why, in 2018, we created Khan Academy for districts which includes wraparound support of automatic enrollment. Uh, you get professional learning, a dedicated District Success Manager, and a data dashboard that is all part of the New Hampshire partnership.

And then we came out with the AI layered on top of our Khan Academy content in 2023. So the difference about this partnership or working with Khan Academy versus other companies that have AI is that we will always be focused on learning. Our goal is to focus that every student can experience grade-level success—the mastery through or the methods through mastery learning. So I'm going to take a little bit of time this morning to talk about what that means and what that looks like with our tools that have been tested, proven, and then how the AI fits on top of that.

And y'all, have you seen this already? Sal talking to everybody about see the video? All right, well, let's hear from our uh, founder and CEO, Sal, talking about his view of Khan Academy.

“Hi teachers, Sal here from Khan Academy. As I'm sure you are aware, there is a lot of talk about things like artificial intelligence, including in education, and this has been an area of focus for us. But there are a few very important things to keep in mind as we go down this journey together. The first is if I had to pick between the world's most amazing technology, AI or otherwise, and not having a real human teacher versus an amazing human teacher and no technology at all, I would pick the amazing teacher and no technology at all every time because nothing is going to be able to replace that human-to-human connection.

The other thing that we've always stressed at Khan Academy but is especially important now that the world seems enamored with artificial intelligence is that you should never be thinking about using technology for technology's sake. It should not be: ‘hey, that thing is cool; let’s figure out a problem for it to solve.’ You have to reflect on, ‘what are the problems that you have always been trying to solve, and maybe this technology can help you with that?’

So the problems that we have always thought about at Khan Academy and hope to partner with you to continue to think about how we can make your lives easier are: how can we address the issue that in a class of 30 students, you have really 30 individual needs? Before the pandemic, your average American classroom had three grade levels in it. Now after the pandemic, I've seen reports where it could be five or six grade levels of preparedness in that one classroom. This is something that y’all experience every day.

You wish that you had an army of teaching assistants to be able to uh, help support you, help you save time, do things like create lesson plans, etc., and also to be able to help support the students, essentially tutor them, but also do it in a way that’s connected with you as the instructional leader. And so that’s the lens that we’ve to some degree always taken at Khan Academy, with personalization and mastery learning.

And so when we saw the tools that are possible with artificial intelligence, if we put the right guardrails in place to make it safe, we said this could take us potentially even further on those goals: the goals of better support for students and the goal of better support for teachers. That second one I want to really, really, really underline, because I think every EdTech tool, and all of us at Khan Academy have been guilty of it as well, for the last decade-plus we would create these tools, we would do efficacy studies, we would go to you and we would say, ‘hey look at these efficacy studies; if you do the following at Khan Academy—if you do 20, if you do 30 to 60 minutes a week, it can accelerate your students by this amount, it can personalize.’ And I think we can all intellectually agree that something like that could be useful, but you already have a lot on your plate, and you're thinking now, ‘this is one more thing that I have to learn.’

And many of y’all have been willing to do it because it can improve outcomes for you and for your students. What we're hoping that we can now do with Kigo is not only do what I just described better, but to do it in a way that can support you better, so that even though it is yet another thing to learn, by learning it and by making that investment, not only will it improve student outcomes and student supports, but it's going to save you time. We are already getting reports from school districts that teachers are saving at least five hours a week, five hours a week, doing things like lesson planning, writing progress reports, getting a first pass on certain grades, and by being able to support their students better.

So we are excited to go on this journey with you; it is still early days. Just the fact that we are having this conversation, we’re working on things together—you are a pioneer here, and we look forward to—and give us very clear and, uh, and don’t, don’t, don’t pull any punches—feedback; but we want this to be a way that you can have your cake and eat it too: support your students better, but while doing so, support yourself better, so you have more time and energy not only for your students but for yourself, and you can really foster that human-to-human connection.

Any thoughts or reactions on what Sal shared? You can come off mute or type in the chat. For adult learners or the learners I deal with, which are dual enrolled, that connection is the most important part, and it’s sometimes very hard to get, as so my kids are a little prickly.

Exactly. I mean, I've been with Khan Academy now three months. I've been in the—I used to be a special education teacher, then I've been working for EdTech companies for the last 15 years. And what I really like about Khan Academy and what I'm going to show you first is the focus on using the courses and, uh, goals to move the needle with learning, and then how the AI is layered on top of that. But then also, you can use the AI tools separate from the content, but it's really, um, we've also done a really good job building these tools to be safe and responsible, so I'll show you some of those guardrails as we move forward too.

And like data security, privacy compliance—very important to us. We've gone through the SOC 2 audit; we are, uh, negotiated a DPA specifically with New Hampshire, sure, like it’s really important. I'll show you more of those um, safeguards as well. And Lily said the emphasis AI but the replacement of teachers, absolutely, it is a tool, y'all; this is not like we’re not trying to replace um, educators—we're actually trying to use these tools to enhance more human-to-human connection.

So I want to take the first part to talk about learning. So just real quick, what are some things you do to learn? Like if you—what do you do when you don't know what to do? You can come off mute, type in the chat, um, like you come up with something, you have to figure it out.

Redirections, that's good. Begin with research, yep, sometimes, uh, you Google it—I've been watching a lot of YouTube videos to learn something, right? Um, who remembers Encyclopedia Britannica? Am I aging myself? Yeah, I loved those. I loved that. So learning, right? Steps to learn something—learning is actually really vulnerable. We're asking kids and people to show up, admit they don't know something, try something new, make mistakes—all in the context of, uh, in front of their peers.

But what makes somebody learn something? We want to move students from passive to—let's talk about different styles of learning. So right now, passive learning means just the learner receives information—maybe watches a video, reads an article—but if they don’t do anything with it, are they really learning it? No, and sadly a lot of you—us education is passive. Then we move to active, where learners can do something like maybe highlight or paraphrase or maybe ask a question, but then there's constructive learning, the next level up, where the learner starts to produce something new based on things that they're learning—like explaining what they just learned, drawing something.

The best way—I mean, you've probably heard this—the best way to learn something is to teach it to somebody else. So that really starts to move it from our short-term memory to long-term memory. But the ultimate goal of learning is to have interactive experiences where learners are engaging in dialogue, um, producing their own responses. This is where discourse-driven math classrooms are highly effective—a lot of talking and reading—when you can verbal process and understand and construct your own knowledge. But sometimes that is not always, um, you're not able to do that all the time in classrooms for a variety of reasons.

And research shows that students will learn more—this is like multiple research points to this—when they're actively engaged. So moving from passive to interactive learning—when they're working on stuff that's just at the edge of what they can do. So it's called the Goldilocks principle: it can't be too hard, too easy—it just has to be just right. But that just right depends, um, for every single student. They also learn—we all learn as humans when we get immediate feedback to something that we're learning, and we see the value in what we're learning.

So I have gone to many classrooms where there's been posters of growth mindset on the wall, and classrooms look like this. Have you ever seen that? Right? So something's not working, or unfortunately, I've seen classrooms that are very crowded with one teacher with 30 students, so how are we able to do that in our interactive learning when it's really crowded? This is where, as we're thinking through, um, AI, Kigo was built to help personalize and enhance student learning, so it was designed, and it was trained—not trained, it was, um, I guess we don’t like to say trained—but we, uh, prompt engineered Kigo to be a true Socratic tutor.

It's empathetic, it's enthusiastic, it will encourage thinking, but it will never give answers. But it works very well within the content context of our Khan Academy courses, which a lot of educators know us for—math and science—but we keep adding more courses in humanities. We have the digital SAT courses, computing, life skills, um, but the focus is on mastery learning. Do you all know what mastery learning is? Have you heard this concept before? Does anyone give a shot at what it is?

Whatever you says correct. Being able to internalize it and do it, not just imitate it, um, and being able to remember it a day later. Yeah. Um, anyone else want to share what they think mastery learning is? Um, I know there's a big emphasis on it being self-paced versus you meet these goals by this deadline. It's very individualized to the student and the progress they're making. Yes, and it's also—you may not master a skill right away, so you need purposeful practice.

It's not like a one-and-done; it’s moving towards like even if you have to practice a skill a couple of times before you master the skill. Does that make sense? So, um, we don't need to watch this video necessarily; if you're interested, I'll put this in the follow-up. But um, the benefits of mastery learning, like you said, it's personalized pacing; it's going to help build up students' confidence. It's assuring that they have a strong foundation, and it's going to help educators by simplifying the process of monitoring and—and students are going to own their learning, promoting growth mindset.

Um, all of the things that we have said we've wanted in education—that is the goal of mastery learning. So what we've seen with Khan Academy in general is if students can be on the Khan Academy content for around 30 minutes per week and get at least two skills a week, their growth is much higher than students who don’t use that, so it will start to accelerate student learning if you are using the Khan Academy content in your classes.

And Khan Academy content—so um, if I didn't give you all demo accounts, I'm happy to give you demo accounts. Um, as part of this webinar, actually let me put this—this is my email. I'm going to give it again at the end, but I would be happy to send you a demo account so you can see what I'm seeing. But we have so many courses as part of the Khan Academy library, and we keep adding more. For instance, we just added AP—whoops, what just happened? AP college world history, financial literacy—we are adding more reading and vocabulary. We just added sixth grade, ninth grade, tenth grade; we're going to have seventh and eighth grade reading and vocabulary; high school physics.

Uh, we are aligning math to different standards that weren't aligned before—like we just aligned it to Texas, but we have many different types of math courses including getting ready for courses. So this content can be used as a supplemental to any of your core classes for ELA, math, or even to complement some of the AP courses, or even if you have high school students that really want to focus on the digital SAT. So this comes all with it, and part of the automatic enrollment, which is why we ask you to have Clever or ClassLink, is that we can enroll your students into some of these focus courses, which is going to help track progress and all the things.

So now I'm going to show you what does it look like for using—I'm going to show you the courses and then a layer on Kigo, and it's called companion mode. So does anyone have a certain course they want to look at? Like Algebra 1? Digital SAT Math is always a favorite to me. Okay, and then Melissa said art history. Okay, I can do both. We'll do, uh, we'll do—we'll start with Algebra 1, and then we can go to art history.

So the way Khan Academy works, this is what I'm talking about mastery learning. Students, you as, um, so as educators, your students could be enrolled in an entire course, but you could also assign learning goals and actual assignments to students. So if I wanted to assign my students, I could assign for my entire—all of my classes, I’m going to make it due on—um, oh not this. Let’s pretend that's a week. They would have this as an assignment.

So when they go to their learner page, or if I go to my teacher learner home, they’re able to look at their progress, they can see the courses that they’re enrolled in, they're able to see any of their assignments—all of this. So let me go back to the courses. So what happens is we want students to master learning. So these open boxes mean they haven't started it. If they've attempted it, you know if you get less than 70% correct, they’ve attempted it, they’re familiar, they’re proficient, and eventually they’ve mastered the skills. The cool thing about these skills is if I'm taking an algebra 1 or even a calculus class in math and then I take the SAT course, if I mastered a skill that’s duplicated in another course, it will transfer, so I won’t have to take the skill again.

But we want students to be working through this, and they can watch the videos and um, do the activities. So this content has been found to be very, very effective. You can assign the Khan Academy content in multiple languages, um, and when students are watching videos to learn, there’s transcripts, and they also can do closed captioning, and the closed captioning is available in multiple languages. So this is, um, a great supplement to anything you're doing in math.

So if you're doing, you know, if you're an Algebra 1 teacher and you want to assign some of this as homework or small group work, this works very well for that. But now I'm going to show you, um, but then it’s hard because you're like math discourse is really important, or what if a student's working through this and they have a lot of questions, and I can't clone myself. This is where this—the Kigo Socratic tutor comes in.

So there's two different modes in this companion mode: you as educators can use the teacher tools in the companion mode, but I'm going to show you the student mode first. So if you do get a demo account, make sure that you toggle between—this is teacher mode, and then this is student mode. Do y’all see that? So you want to make sure that you’re in student mode. So one of the guardrails right away is that we do not want students to share personal data; we are not collecting their personal data. If you typed in, “I live on Fifth Street,” it is not going to want to collect that data. Kigo is like, “Um, I can't handle personal information, but let's focus on the problem.”

So you're going to see Kigo is an empathetic refocusing Socratic tutor. Now, we also understand sometimes students need help with prompts, so we will have some prompts if they don’t know what to do at first, like “how do I use this?” But we do have a course that students that you could use with students to teach them how to use Kigo, because it's a tool just like you wouldn't hand a sixth grader a highlighter and say, “go for it.” I mean, have you all done that? Because you will have a fully highlighted page, just like any math manipulative, just like anything—we want to make sure that we're empowering students to understand how to use Kigo.

But I'm going to answer like a student would—“Why should I care about learning about this?” That's probably the first thing a lot of kids ask. So Kigo is gonna say, “Great! What are some of your interests?” So what are some of your interests, y’all? What do you like to do?

Crochet, brochet, and um, play soccer. Let's see what happens. So the cool, cool thing about Kigo is it's going to start to learn about the student’s interest. You also can, in settings, go in and um, add interests and then it'll remember the interest of students, but it's going to start to learn the students. So as we've been going through math and art history, if it remembers that I like crochet and that I like soccer, it will start using that to help me—does that make sense? So it says, “Awesome! Let's connect this to your interests.”

So crochet, you have to follow patterns, and soccer you need to calculate angles. Ready to go back to the problem? No, tell me the answer! I'm not ready. I want you just to tell me the answer right here. When it says doing math, this is another layer that we put on top of this. This was actually built on Chat OpenAI, Chat GPT-4. And as we, um—they are iterating all of their Chat GPT, it's like Omni now. We continue to build on their platform, but we put another layer in to make sure that Kigo does not have issues with math like you've heard a lot of AIs have those hallucinations.

Yeah, so we actually have, um, if for some reason it makes a mistake, you can actually click here, and you can thumb up or thumb down any of these answers to give us feedback to improve Kigo. So, look what it said. Kigo gives you the um, answer directly, but I can help you get there.

So instead, if I’m like, “Okay, fine, help me break this down.” Now the more you push Kigo, the more it will help students. So, um, again, it's like, “Okay, I’m going to help you break this down.” But another guardrail that we have is that we keep all of the chats logged for I think it's 30 to 90 days. I have to double check on exactly the time, but we're not sharing this back with OpenAI; we're not using the student chats to train large language models.

We keep it for educators to be able to use the chats to look for data. So as a teacher, you can use AI to go through and see what students are talking about. You can even ask Kigo, “What did my students talk to you about this week? Are there any things I should be concerned about? Any patterns that you’re seeing?” So that’s why we’re keeping the chats. The other reason is if a student types something questionable like, “I want to build a bomb,” Kigo is going to immediately give a little empathy, but it's going to flag this chat now.

As leaders, you can choose to have the automatic flags, but it will flag it for teachers, it'll flag it for leaders. We have lots of guidance on what is flagged and the moderation and all of that. But when you log in, you'll have a dot up here that indicates that you have some flagged chats, but you'll also get an email. So, it's really important because kids are going to try to type whatever they want in here, as I'm sure you know—that's another guardrail.

So does anyone want to ask Kigo anything in particular with this math problem? Say anything else? What is the first step? The other thing Kigo currently can speak in Spanish and Portuguese, and then you also can use text-to-speech, and then Kigo can read to you as well. So I'll turn this on and I'll turn this on.

“What does the expression after R—I don’t know, can you help me further?” Let me see if it's reading it to you—hopefully, you can hear the sound. “Oh, I'm going to turn that—sure thing! Let's break it down step by step. First, we substitute R equals 5 into the expression.” Can you hear that? So you have a choice of three different voices, but what I like about it—okay, I have to turn this off because now it's going to just record everything. What I like about it is it didn't sound like a robot, right?

It sounded more fluent. It's not like, “Sure thing! Let's break it down step by step,” or so it's a little bit more of a fluent voice as well. Um, now I want to show you what this looks like with art history. So let’s go—that's what it looks like in math, and somebody else said art history.

So where was art history? Let’s go to ancient art. Was that—oh, us art history, there we go. So same thing; if we want to look at prehistoric art, Paleolithic art, you can even use Kigo, um, with comprehension. So let's go back over [Music].

Here, so now students can actually ask Kigo, “Give me a summary.” So if they don’t necessarily want to read all of this, uh Kigo can give a summary. “Would you like to know more about a specific part?” Does that help? You could actually, um, have Kigo quiz you, you could write a poem about the article, have him write a poem—or her, or it, which is really fun. So now it's taking this art history article and it is having Kigo write a poem about this.

Um, so you can even say, “What’s something you want to ask Kigo about this?” So now what it's doing is it's breaking down some of how the artist actually did this—like what materials, making beads. So it's going to chunk this more. Um, let me see. “Why should I care about art?” I’m curious if it will say, “Can you simplify text?” So it just simplified the text for me.

“Can you help me read this like a third grader?” I’m literally just showing you different things. Hey Barbara, so what am I doing? I'm pushing Kigo to do more personalization, scaffolds, whatnot, and this is something that again we can talk to students about doing. Any questions or do you want to see anything else about companion mode?

We're good so far? Okay, so that is—that's where you can find Kigo helping you with Khan Academy courses. So that is called companion mode.

Now we also have additional learner activities. Now you're able to assign these activities. Um, back to school, you're able to assign, like if you just want them to have “tutor me” or “refresh my knowledge” instead of all of these. But I'm going to go through each of these and show you what they are. So students have access to “tutoring me” in math and science, so maybe um, this is where you can use the AI outside of Khan Academy content.

So maybe there’s—you're doing another math course or something else in science that you don’t want to use the Khan Academy content. But students just want to use the AI; maybe they're using this in study hall or after school or for a variety of purposes. You can type in um, you can actually type something, or you can have them give you 10 practice problems.

So there’s a—let’s see if we want to talk about chemistry—“Quiz me! Help me in chemistry.” And we have some sample prompts that we can, uh, give you to be able to help foster some of this learning. Because sometimes when I look at ChatGPT, I’m like, “I don’t know what to ask.” So we have developed different prompts that students can use for the “tutor me’s.”

So this is “tutor me” in science, and then “tutor me” in humanities—same thing. Maybe you have a question; maybe you, uh, were assigned something; maybe the students need help with understanding Romeo and Juliet. They can also choose to either just give me five practice questions or “help me practice my English grammar.” This is interesting: “What should I learn next?”

I've played with this a bunch about neuroscience. So if you want to say, “Where should I learn next?” so it'll help you with some— it’ll actually quiz you in some things that you've been doing. But if you want to, you know, work on grammar, math, explore your interests—even just this is reiterating that if you spend 30 to 60 minutes each week on Khan Academy, it can boost the learning.

So EXs taking you back into the Khan Academy content, this is interesting—“How to focus”—so this is sort of like I am bored, and I just want Khan to help me. Like, “How frustrated do you feel right now on a scale of 1 to 10?” So I’m a seven. “What makes you feel frustrated?” So this is starting to actually—it's not a therapist. Let me repeat: Kigo is not a therapist, but if students are frustrated, or if you have a student that is really struggling for whatever reason, this could be something that they could start to say, “Well, I'm frustrated because reading is hard for me.”

Sometimes students are going to share more with Kigo than they might with an adult, than they might with a peer, and we’ve built Kigo to be really empathetic. And again, you can see everything students are talking to Kigo about; so if you do have students that are using this, you can see for the data and analytics. I'm going to show you that in a little bit, um, what students are choosing to look at and how much time they've been on Kigo, and then you also can use AI to see all of the student chats.

Then there’s, you know, National Spelling Bee—this is an opportunity for them to practice knowledge. They can be quizzed in different areas. I'm going to come back to writing coach because that's really exciting. Um, students can actually debate, um, and this could actually train, uh, students to debate. So they could talk about—they could debate Kigo about should schools have shorter or longer school days, or there’s some high school topics and beyond: is minimum wage a good or a bad idea? So Kigo is going to push to help the students understand their argument.

Like, “I think it's a human right to have a living wage.” Let's see what happens. So then it's going to have the other side of the argument. So it’s going to continue to help students refine their debates. They can chat with a literary character. Does anyone want to chat with any of these? Winnie the Pooh? “Oh bother!” Hello there, I'm Winnie the Pooh—or Pooh for sure.

Like, can you hear his voice? Does anyone want to ask Winnie the Pooh something off-the-wall to show you some of the guardrails? Anything shocking to Winnie? Do we want to ask him about the 2024 election? Yeah, let’s ask him. Winnie the Pooh is not going to have—

so he's just a bear of very little brain, and long words bother him. He doesn't know much about such things, and any of these characters will comment in their own way—they will not comment on current events, and we have pressure-tested this quite a bit. So feel free, if you want a demo account, to pressure-test some of this. Same thing with historical figures. Is there a historical figure anyone wants to talk to right now just to show—oops, Albert Einstein?

Albert Einstein—what do we want to ask Albert Einstein? How did you learn math? It’s a great question. This is fun; I haven’t tested all of these. So he says, “My journey through mathematics is not without its challenges, young student. I struggled with traditional methods of teaching. However, my curiosity and love for theoretical physics drove me to explore mathematics.”

“I dived into complex problems,” so it's actually showing growth mindset for students. “Today, resources like Khan Academy can provide structured approaches.” Um, so “how do you approach new learning topics?” “Did you develop time travel?” Anyone want to know that about Albert Einstein?

So, as an AI simulation, I must clarify I did not develop time travel because time travel is something that's more sci-fi—it's more like in movies—now. So it's going to talk about anything of physics that might have contributed, but it’s again, it’s just interesting. Like, those are again some of the guardrails. Like they try to stick the historical figures just to talking about what happened in their time.

Um, then there’s other ways that they can play—“Ignite my curiosity.” This is really fun too—like I was asking about neuroscience, um, and then there’s some support with college admissions, academic and career growth, and then students can actually add more interests into Kigo so they can learn them.

But I want to spend some time showing you writing coach. So writing coach is a whole thing, but before we get to writing coach, students can also write a fiction story. Like if you want to write an adventure story, this is how it would co-create with Kigo.

“Splendid choice! Who is it and what's the quest?” I want to write um, “a frog who overcomes his fear of heights.” I have no idea; I just made that up. It's not going to—it's going to write it with; it's going to encourage you. You ask about the two sentences, it gives you some feedback. So it's going to be like co-writing any of these stories, which is really fun.

You can brainstorm ideas for an academic admissions essay, check for problems in admission essays. But now, this is brand new—just was released—this is writing coach. So how this works is that teachers can assign to students, um, a piece of writing. So you could actually assign it to everybody. I'm going to show you; we have some assignments here.

So this teacher assigned “Hatchet book review,” it’s an eighth grade literary analysis essay. The prompt instructions are here, so then students are able to use Kigo to help understand each piece. So like they ask, “What are the requirements?” So then it’s going to help break down how to write this.

The next step is outlining, so students, it’s giving um, the very specific structures of the outline, but then students have Kigo here to help every step of the way as they're starting to fill this out. The next step would be drafting, so this is where students are going to be writing the full draft, but it's going to help them by reviewing—like keeping the outline here.

Students start to write; you can still ask Kigo all these questions and then finally, um, it'll help you revise—help, help the students revise and then submit as a final piece. The cool thing about this is students are writing in Kigo. So if I start for 30 minutes and I'm writing in Kigo and I go home, and then I just cut and paste a bunch of stuff from Chat GPT, it will alert the teacher being like, “This doesn’t seem like Danielle's writing.”

So it's one of the ways that we are trying to prevent cheating. Um, so if students are actually writing, it's going to learn my style; it's going to learn the way I write. So if I just go in and try to cut and paste some stuff, it'll know that that's not me, or it'll say there’s some, um—what is it called? Cont—uh, plagiarism: there’ll have, like, different flags for teachers.

So this is something that you could use in any academic subject; any grade level could do this, and it's really, um, I think this is going to be something really amazing. Reactions to writing coach? Do you want to see any more of writing coach?

I have a question—a couple questions. Um, when they're going into Kigo to do activities, is there some sort of placement test that will help them to know whether or not they need to do an activity?

There's not a placement test, um, but no, because they're really open-ended activities. But educators can assign—you could just have “tutor me” available for students, and you could give students prompts that they would use like you could be more directed with these.

Okay, and then when you're doing the writing coach, do they have a text type mode? Because a lot of kids, if they’re typing, that slows them down. Correct? Let me see what are the requirements, and then let's start the outline process.

“All right, next up outlining. I want you to be able—I want to use the text-to-writing feature.” How do I do that? “The speech-to-writing,” I meant. All right, Barbara, do you know? It should be—you should be able to—I thought there was able—they were able to. Oh, that's a good question. I thought we had that functionality, so I have to check because I know it’s here with Kigo, but I have to check. I thought we had text-to-speech available for the writing, so I will check on that.

Okay, thank you. Yeah, any other questions about writing coach or any of the other learner activities? We're good? So next week we will do a deep—oh, you have a question? There’s a quick question in the chat about how do they input math expressions?

Oh, great! All right, let's go back and show you. So let’s do two—um, where is the—okay? What will happen is it should offer—so it offers students have a sketch pad, but when you click on this, it should—there's a um, if it requires an expression, a calculator will pop up.

I'm trying to—one slope—okay, back from all. There’s supposed to be a calculator that pops, but this one is just requiring simple answers. So if there's an equation, a calculator, you can type in the equation. I just can’t find one off the top of my head right now. Did that work, Cara?

Any other questions about math, the equations in the tutor mode? Yeah, so let’s see how do they type it into Kigo itself? All right, do you know? Let me see—no. Oh, here we go—there it is! Like somewhere, it was inconspicuous. Down here are the math keys that they can type in different, um, the different equations.

I was like, I knew it was somewhere; I had to find it. So that's for Kigo, but this will pop up if you need to type it in the answer as well. Any other questions on either of these things?

All right, so the last two things—a couple things I want to show you. Part of the partnership is that you have the administrator dashboard; that's why we ask for Clever or ClassLink so we can automatic enroll students into this.

And as leaders, you're able to see all sorts of data including Kigo data, so you're able to see what students are using Kigo. This is a demo account, so it’s not going to have any data, but you're able to see how much time they've been on and also what activities they're doing. You can see that for teachers and students, so if you have a lot of students taking “tutor me,” “ignite my curiosity,” if you have students talking to literary characters quite a bit, you're able to see that data, which is really helpful.

And then the last thing I want to show you regarding the student-facing tutor, there's a lot of confusion in New Hampshire about the free teacher tools versus not free teacher tools. So we did a couple weeks ago release a lot of our AI tools for free, but the tools that are part of our district partnership is this: summarizing the student chat.

This is not part of the free version at all because this is the only way to get the Kigo that I've showed you today is through our district partnership. And then this would be the way to use AI to mine those chats to understand what’s happening. So this is a demo account, so I don’t know if this will be able to—we’ll be able to do as much as I’d like, but I can ask—summarize, um, the last week.

So now it's going to take a couple minutes to summarize all of the chats that my students have been talking to Kigo about, and any type of topics because it's a demo count, you're not going to see a lot of data. So there's spelling challenges. Um, so I want to see what they're talking about with world history.

I could also ask for trends; I could ask for any problem areas. Are there, you know, Danielle, um, in working with a district who was using Kigo, one of the things that we found was interesting was, um, when you go in and look at the data, like the teachers could or the administrators could see where is the place that the students ask or what part of algebra did the students ask most questions or use Kigo for help?

And so, you know, it’s like linear equations or what—and so, you know, that conversation then with the teachers of, you know, why do you think this happened? Or, you know, is this an area that my teachers need to, um, you know, beef up on because I see that the kids really used the tutor during that, um, when we were teaching with that? So it’s really, um, powerful that way to see where are the kids asking the questions.

And I think as a former math teacher, going in and looking at those chats would also help me understand am I teaching my students the correct, um, questioning skills? You know, developing their critical thinking in, um, working with the questioning part of it.

Yeah, thank you. Any questions? I want Barbara just shared. So a couple last things. Um, up here, there's these three little dots, so up here you can see the history of any chat that you're talking with or that the students are looking at. There’s something called Kigo’s closet, so as students are working through Khan Academy content, they can earn stars and, um, dress Kigo up in little hats and stuff.

So that's just a fun, um, incentive for, um, as they're moving through Khan Academy content. So they can make their Kigo customize Kigo a little bit. And then there’s preferences here, and this battery is just showing you how much power the AI has. So sometimes, depending on usage, um, it may be just—it's just showing you how much power that the AI has at the moment.

What is this battery for? So, in conclusion with all of this, we went through all of this. So let me—there's a question in the chat.

Yeah, I'm Barbara Campbell. I'll be the district success manager, so once you sign up with Khan Academy, I'm going to be your contact, um, in helping you implement it and, um, you know, get you going on it. I'll be your contact.

Um, but there was one question, um, in the chat talking about the school system uses Alma as their student information, um, and he said Clever didn't offer it as an option; will it connect? And Chris, I'm curious, Clever didn't offer it as an option. Can you explain that a little bit more?

In the initial signup call, there was a drop zone, a drop-down like drops. Chris, have you already signed up? Did you already go through the contracting process? So let’s talk about that. Let’s talk about next steps. So because we—so Chris, part of that is Barbara will do—okay, so let me—Barbara, do you mind getting Chris’s—Chris, can you put your, um, full name and district in the chat, and then we'll look into that for you?

And just put your email in the chat too, and we'll make sure that we look into that. So what's happening is—let me go to the end.

Um, here we go. Okay, we are—how this works is you are already here. So we're doing the summer learning series the same time, Tuesdays at 9, um, you can please enroll more people. If you have other teachers, they can sign up at any point. They can sign up for all of them or just one or two of them. Whoever signs up will get the recording.

We will put all of these recordings on a landing page, so you can access this afterwards too. But the way to enroll with us is that this is our landing page. Um, you can go here, you can see the press release; you can see, um, if you needed to book time with me to talk about anything in particular, you can. Um, and then you can also sign up for to work with us.

So what that means is you're going to fill out a form, and then we will send you a contract. You just need to sign the contract, send it back to us; then that will trigger Barbara to send you an email, which then you will have your district fill out a survey so we understand a little bit of what your district is interested in. Then we're going to enroll you, which is part of the Clever, ClassLink piece.

So, um, our enrollment specialist is checking to make sure that you’re in Clever; we'll help you get onboarded with all of that. And then, as um, we're going to see how many districts sign up before, uh, the end of July, and then we're going to have a professional learning state-level plan that will, uh, announce early August that you'll be able to have a track for teachers, a track for leaders, um, and be able to really understand like the nuts and bolts.

Today was just an overview, showing you things, but um, you'll be able to get into your account. If you want demo access beforehand and my email is Danielle Sullivan@KhanAcademy.org. I'll put it in the chat too, so um, there I am again. So if you want a demo account, I'm happy to give you a demo account! Just email me if you have more questions. You can continue to reach out, but I will check—Chris, we'll check on what's happening with your contract for sure because I know that it takes a little bit.

Once you fill out the form, it takes a little bit for us to get it approved through our legal process, and then we have to send it to you, so we'll just check. I have a—we have a running tracker for all of that questions, comments on anything else?

Well, we appreciate you so much. Um, thank you for joining us for the first learning series, and uh, next Tuesday we are going to do a deep dive into the teacher tools—all the things! We will show you all the things that you can do with the AI teacher tools, both in companion mode as well as, um, just to save your educators a lot of time.

So please, please have more people sign up for this summer learning series. We would love to have more people come, and again, they can have access to the recordings. We are doing this all summer. We appreciate your time, and have a wonderful rest of your day! I'm going to stop the recording, but we'll stay on for the last two minutes for...