{"id":98317,"date":"2026-04-27T17:02:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=98317"},"modified":"2026-04-27T17:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:04:16","slug":"why-sal-khans-ai-revolution-hasnt-happened-yet-according-to-sal-khan-barnum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2026\/04\/27\/why-sal-khans-ai-revolution-hasnt-happened-yet-according-to-sal-khan-barnum\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Sal Khan\u2019s AI revolution hasn\u2019t happened yet, according to Sal Khan [Barnum]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chalkbeat.org\/2026\/04\/09\/sal-khan-reflects-on-ai-in-schools-and-khanmigo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Why Sal Khan\u2019s AI revolution hasn\u2019t happened yet, according to Sal Khan<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from chalkbeat.org by Matt Barnum<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1px4eze-0 egVxCn body-paragraph\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Three years ago, as Khan Academy founder Sal Khan rolled out an AI-powered tutoring chatbot, he predicted a revolution in learning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1px4eze-0 egVxCn body-paragraph\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">So far, the revolution hasn\u2019t happened, he acknowledges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1px4eze-0 egVxCn body-paragraph\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cFor a lot of students, it was a non-event,\u201d Khan told me recently about his eponymous chatbot, Khanmigo. \u201cThey just didn\u2019t use it much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1px4eze-0 egVxCn body-paragraph\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Khan gives this analogy: Imagine he walked into a class, sat in the back of the room, and waited for students to seek out help. \u201cSome will; most won\u2019t,\u201d he said. That\u2019s been the experience with AI tutoring, he said. It doesn\u2019t necessarily make students motivated to learn or fill in gaps in knowledge needed to ask questions.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>\u201cAI is going to help,\u201d said Khan of this reimagined Khan Academy. \u201cBut I think our biggest lever is really investing in the human systems.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Sal Khan\u2019s AI revolution hasn\u2019t happened yet, according to Sal Khan &#8212; from chalkbeat.org by Matt Barnum Three years ago, as Khan Academy founder Sal Khan rolled out an AI-powered tutoring chatbot, he predicted a revolution in learning. So far, the revolution hasn\u2019t happened, he acknowledges. \u201cFor a lot of students, it was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,329,343,32,210,141,533,391,180,119,482,124,46,102,17,7,838,228,406,69,196,89,321,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-education","category-education-technology","category-emerging-technologies","category-engagement-engaging-students","category-experimentation","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-innovation","category-instructional-design","category-intelligent-systems","category-intelligent-tutoring","category-k-12-related","category-learning","category-learning-agents","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-experience-design","category-learning-preferences","category-motivation","category-personalizedcustomized-learning","category-productivity-tips-and-tricks","category-teachers","category-united-states","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98319,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98317\/revisions\/98319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}