Salman Khan founded Khan Academy, a nonprofit organization that provides educational videos and interactive exercises. Khan developed instructional videos to help his cousins with math problems, and made them publicly available on YouTube. This reinvented education by allowing students to learn at their own pace through short videos and practice exercises. Khan discusses how Khan Academy works and its potential to improve education around the world in his TED Talk, where he uses a montage of videos and personal anecdotes to engage the audience.

1. Jose Ramos
Public Speaking
Instructor J. Melton

2. Salman Khan
SalmanAmin Khan
Born in October 1976 and
the founder of Khan
Academy, a nonprofit
organization dedicated to
educate students utilizing
videos and interactive
exercises.

3. While working as a hedge fund analyst Khan developed some instructional videos that
changed the way to teach. By reinventing education Khan provides a solution to
students who need a little bit more to understand the concepts given at school, and
makes them available anywhere anytime.

4. The idea for his Academy started by helping out his cousins in another state
with their Math problems by uploading videos in YouTube for them to learn.
By making them available to the public people began to express how great
this idea was. Today there are more than 2,200 videos that cover different
areas of study.

5. His unique way of teaching in videos lasting about 15 minutes each and then having the students
answer interactive exercises until they master that skill helps the student understand the
concepts at their own pace, whereas in a classroom if the topic has been completed by the class
the next topic would be started and a lot of the times students wouldn’t have mastered the skill
completely.

6. Let's use video to reinvent education
During his speech Khan discusses how he created Khan Academy to help
students master skills at their own pace. He speaks about the educational
videos and interactive exercises that can be used by anyone anywhere in the
world.

7. It is very interesting how Khan started his speech by utilizing a montage of
different educational videos that are available at his academy showing the
audience how they actually work. This gave a clear idea of what he was
going to be speaking about.

8. In order to keep his audience interested in what he was talking about, he used
funny anecdotes of actual student comments, he maintained a clear tone of
voice and utilized slides, videos and personal experiences to keep the audience
interested on his speech.
YouTube Comments:
“First time I smiled
during a derivative”
“Same thing here, I
actually got a natural
high and a good
mood for the entire
day since I
remember seeing all
of this matrix text in
class, and here I’m all
like, I know kung fu.”

9. Khan is a very dynamic speaker I would rate him a 5 of 5. His vast knowledge of his
topic and the desire of letting people experiment his idea of instructional videos is a
very unique one. It kept me wanting more information about his academy and how it
would benefit my kids.

10. Using clear slides, simple videos, and a clear idea of what he wanted to do
demonstrates how he utilizes Garr Reynolds and Nancy Duarte’s tips and
influences to convey his thoughts during his speech.

11. During Khan’s talk he maintains eye contact with all his audience maintains his
audience interested in his topic, which is key to deliver a clear speech.

12. Sir Ken Robinson in both his talks reaches his audience by using comedy and
experiences from his life in order to maintain the audience interested, just like
Salman Khan.

13. Also, both speakers know about the topic they are talking about and both deliver a
clear message to their audience using slides and interactive materials.

14. Here is my recommendation to you fellow classmates, before you make a
speech make sure you know about your topic, maintain a good tone of
voice throughout your presentation, and always use your own personal
experiences as a way to engage with your audience. Khan makes great use
of these tips when giving his talk and makes it really enjoyable and
informative at the same time.

15. Here is the link to the TED talk I used it is very interesting and I hope you enjoy it as
much as I did
http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_reinvent_education.html