My AI Teacher: Khan Academy and the Future of Education | Kristen Dicerbo (Chief Learning Officer)

Dr. Kristen DiCerbo is Khan Academy’s Chief Learning Officer where she sets the company’s product, teaching, and learning strategy — with AI at the forefront.

Khanmigo is amazing. It’s the GenAI-powered product from Khan Academy that helps students learn and teachers teach — and could revolutionize education.

Khan Academy is used by 12 million students a month! And they’ve been an early adopter of GenAI.

Khanmigo coaches students in math and English, helps teachers prepare lesson plans, enables parents to get help as they help their children with their homework, and much more…

On this episode of CRAFTED., Kristen shares how they build with Generative AI — and how you can learn from their experiences to build your own AI experiences.

We dig into how Khan Academy:

Builds with GenAI’s unpredictability in mind
Helps GenAI get good at math (and also built a UX that masks the ways it is bad at it)
Gave Khanmigo an “inner monologue” that helps it slow down and better tutor students
Built a “prompt playground” where they can evaluate various prompts
Built a “prompt library” where they can keep track of prompts
Employ fine-tuning, red teaming, hackathons, and more…

Sal Khan’s new book is entitled “Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That’s a Good Thing)” – On this episode we explore how and why!

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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
02:04 Education + technology: Kristen early experiences
05:10 Khan Academy primer: 12M students a month!
07:36 Getting early access to GPT4
09:02 GenAI: early experiments with tutoring
11:40 GenAI is bad at math! How Khan Academy grappled with this
15:42 Building an AI-powered writing tutor
19:49 How AI can free teachers from grading homework and help students learn more quickly
21:20 Prompt chaining: why you need to break up your prompts to get good results
22:48 Preventing AI-powered plagiarism
26:30 The role of teacher in an AI world
30:26 Outro

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