Sorry for all the stops and starts.

As I mentioned, this is all very impromptu

and very improvisational, but yes,

now even this dashboard that I'm using

says that I'm online on at least Facebook and YouTube.

So I will just keep going and power through this

because I think there's a little bit of a delay

between when I'm starting and stopping.

So it's I'm pressing start, it starts,

and then everyone says it's working,

but then by that time I thought it wasn't working

and then I started again.

But I think we're good, I'm just gonna

keep powering through this.

I'll start over.

This, for those of you all who are wondering where I'm am,

I'm in a walk-in closet off of my master bedroom

because out here in California we have these

stay in place orders, and as I mentioned,

this is the walk-in closet

where Khan Academy all got started.

I have spent a year in this walk-in closet back in 2010,

so I'm prepared to spend at least many weeks

or months in this walk-in closet if necessary.

But as you can imagine, a lot going on.

For those of you that this is the first time

that you're coming to this livestream,

the whole point of it is we obviously

have these mass school closures going on

and we, at Khan Academy we find ourselves

in a somewhat unique situation of realizing

that this is what Khan Academy to some degree was made for

even though we've never really thought

of this circumstance actually happening.

And this is clearly a very, situation,

I don't think anyone would want this,

the ideal circumstance is that the schools are open,

Academy is somehow a substitute for live experiences.

We've always imagined them being in partnership

with incredible teachers and classrooms

and you have your peers and you can liberate the classroom

to then go to higher order tasks.

But we've also imagined Khan Academy

being used in parts of the world

where students might not have access to school

or might not have access to certain,

to instruction or curriculum material of certain qualities.

And we now find ourselves in a situation

where most of the world is going to find ourselves

in that second category.

So a couple of things are happening.

I've been taking questions from parents,

teachers, students, I would love

to get more student questions actually,

I know there's some concern about the cancellation,

delays of some of the SAT administration tests.

On Friday, we released some schedules

for students of different ages,

and one thing that we recommended for sure

for high school students is to

use our official SAT practice.

Obviously you can use us for math.

You can use us for the sciences,

you can use us for the social sciences,

but we also have the official SAT practice

that we partner with the College Board on.

And even if you aren't taking the SAT

or even if now your SAT has been delayed,

I encourage you to think about using that

because it covers math, reading, and writing,

and it'll really make sure that those skills don't atrophy

even if you aren't taking the SAT any time.

And if you do end up taking the SAT in the next three,

four months, it'll be real useful.

But what I would love to do is make this as interactive

as possible, I'd love to take questions from all of you.

I see, let's see if I can scroll down here.

I got a question, I'm a foreign student

who's aiming for a mathematics course in the USA,

what courses exactly should I examine in Khan Academy site?

Are linear algebra and multivariable calculus needed

and what tests I need to take?

Well, Muhammad, it depends what level

you're coming into the United States.

I just saw a comment that Sal is getting old.

We all get old.

It depends what level.

If you're coming at the college level,

you would probably have to take something

like the SAT, there might also be things

like the TOEFL which is measuring,

I think it's Test of English Language Fluency

or Fluency Language, something like that.

I forget the acronym.

But for those tests actually the level

of mathematics you need is not overly advanced.

For the SAT, you really, the level of math,

you really have to master algebra two,

and know it well, there's some tricky questions on there,

but for the most part they're algebra two questions.

And similar for the reading comprehension level.

Things like linear algebra or multivariable calculus,

which are typically a freshman or sophomore level course

in college in the United States are definitely not required

for entry level into college.

Obviously if you're thinking about graduate studies,

linear algebra's especially tends to be applicable

in a lot of the technical fields.

Let's see, other people are asking questions.

Is Khan Academy in Mountain View closed as well?

Yes, we have shut down the office.

It's actually by law now, unless you work

in our area at a healthcare facility or a grocery store

or gas station, something that's considered essential,

they are telling folks not to go to work.

All right.

So hi Sal, I'm a, this is from Basil,

hi Sal, I'm a 17-year-old high school student

and I have been teaching for around three years

for physics, chem, and math, do you recommend

any sources to improve someone's ability to teach?

That's a great question, I've never had quite that question.

Think the number one thing is really mastery

of the material yourself.

I think even for myself when I first learned

a lot of that material in high school and college,

I was a good student and I understood it quite well,

but it would be great if,

when I started doing Khan Academy, it would,

and sorry, for the team, all these Slack questions

are coming across and it's making it

a little bit disruptive.

I'll look at the iPad in a second.

But to learn how to may be practice teaching better,

obviously there's nothing like teaching itself.

I highly recommend trying to make resources

that cover that material and I think you'll find

that you'll learn the material a lot deeper.

Let's see, I'm gonna go to the questions

that the team is looking at.

Okay.

And so I'm looking at the doc, team.

And so I'm looking at the top of it.

So, yeah, and what's going on right now

is our team is looking at the various streams

and then they are curating the questions

for look at, at this iPad, so there's a lot

of home brew things going on here.

But I'm happy to continue to answer questions.

I will look at the stream that I see on this dashboard

and see what other questions people have.

Let's see, people have asked,

it seems like the quality is subpar, my apologies for that.

I will try to, before tomorrow,

try to find a place in the house

that hopefully has better quality Wi-Fi.

I have four full bars here, but I guess

that's not doing the trick.

This is my first day that I'm doing this at home,

so it'll hopefully get better every day.

So please ask any questions, the team is looking at it,

they will update this doc that I'm working from.

I don't see any of the questions just yet.

So one question J.R. Gilroy asks,

will you be leading a nationwide SAT, ACT study session?

A great question, J.R., we, as part of our effort

to support everyone, we are thinking about things like that.

As you can tell, even for this livestream

we're trying to figure out the technology,

but I hope that over the, especially if this school shutdown

situation is protracted, if it keeps going,

I hope that we can find ways to support you

in multiple subjects and SAT especially is one area

that we might able to do either livestreams

or large-scale video conferencing

and help answer folks' questions.

So I hope that we can go do something like that.

Any chance can students access Khan Academy

through gaming platforms?

Unfortunately, that does not exist just yet.

Let's see,

other questions.

Okay, Niurka Zapata says I've been assisting

Khan students around,

not just students, it's been helpful,

I'm so happy I'm one of your ambassadors.

Oh, so for those of y'all who don't know,

we have a thousand teacher ambassadors around the world

who are teachers but they've been super users

of Khan Academy, and they're also in their region

not just helping their own students use Khan Academy

but they're helping teachers help their students

use Khan Academy, so thank you Niurka

for being one of those teacher ambassadors.

And one of the things that we're brainstorming here

at Khan Academy and we would love ideas

from all of you and especially our teacher ambassadors

are ways that teachers,

and I know teachers are also sorting out their own lives

right now, their kids are at home.

They're trying to figure out how to support

their own students.

But if this crisis or if the school shutdown continues,

I hope we can find ways to work with teachers

who might able to volunteer to,

and not just teachers, anyone who might be able

to volunteer to help support students

around the world who right now are feeling

maybe a little bit socially distanced

and need more support above and beyond

what Khan Academy can do on its own.

Our hope is, we've released those schedules on Friday

that Khan Academy is able to,

that we've been able to structure a day

so that students of most ages are able

to use Khan Academy for most subjects.

But we hope that that can be supported with other things.

Yesterday we talked about ideas

like if there's a classroom or a cohort of students

who are working on something at the same time,

maybe they can share a video conference link,

a Zoom or a Google Hangout, where if any of them

have questions, they can go on,

it could maybe be staffed by a volunteer parent

or by their teacher.

And we're going to think about ways

that we might be able to do that at a larger scale

or maybe even give templates or directions

for anyone to be able to do that type of thing.

Once again, none of this is ideal,

but we're lucky that we have access to technology

and a lot of resources that will hopefully,

if this happened 30 years ago,

we would've been a lot tougher of a situation.

So that's our hope.

Let's see, so I have a question here,

does Khan Academy provide social-emotional programs?

So Khan Academy historically didn't explicitly

do social-emotional programs.

We tried to put some social-emotional best practices

in our product experience and even in our content.

What we're told, people like some of our content

because it just feels relaxing and fun,

and sometimes improvised, kind of like

what you're seeing right now.