General Session
Keynote: How Artificial Intelligence Could Spark the Greatest Positive Transformation Education Has Ever Seen
Sal Khan, the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, asks: “Instead of preventing a Dark Age, what if we can help bring about something that will make today look like a Dark Age?” Khan argues that artificial intelligence (AI) will not undermine education as we know it. Instead, with the right guardrails, AI could benefit, not destroy, education. Join us to hear Sal Khan discuss both the perils and promises of AI. Sal will also share the opportunities he sees for students and educators to collaborate with AI tools and will talk about a new AI tool he’s piloting at Khan Academy. It’s called Khanmigo, and it uses the same generative AI technology behind OpenAI’s world-changing ChatGPT, while adapting it specifically for the classroom. Khanmigo is an AI tutor for students and an AI teaching assistant for teachers.
Hart Vision Elected Official of the Year and Supporter of the Year Awards and Legacy Award Winners will also be announced during this general session.
The General Session begins promptly at 11:05am.
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Grand Ballroom, Long Beach Convention Center
General Session
Presented by
President and Chief Executive Officer
California Charter Schools Association
As the leader of CCSA, Myrna Castrejón has managed the membership organization representing California’s public charter schools since January 2019.
Prior to assuming the role of President and CEO, she served for nearly three years as the Founding Executive Director of Great Public Schools Now, an organization created in winter 2015. As the Executive Director, Myrna led Great Public Schools Now’s strategy to transform public education in Los Angeles by expanding high-quality public schools of diverse governance models in the areas most in need of support.
Before that assignment, Myrna worked at the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) in various key leadership roles since its founding in late 2003, leading the government affairs, local advocacy, quality, school development, and research and evaluation portfolios at various times. Her work with CCSA was preceded by a decade in school reform efforts in Texas and Los Angeles.
Her passion for this critical work comes from her background as a mother and an immigrant, and what she has seen is possible when commitment, opportunity and urgency meet to help families carve out better futures. In 2013, Myrna was named “Education Reformer to Watch” by the Walton Family Foundation. She is also a fellow of the Aspen Pahara Education Fellowship’s eighth class and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
Founder & CEO
Khan Academy
Sal Khan is the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, a nonprofit educational organization that offers free lessons in math, science and humanities, as well as tools for parents, teachers and districts to track student progress. Khan Academy is piloting an AI guide called Khanmigo that is a tutor and teaching assistant. The organization partners with more than 500 public school districts and schools across the United States. Worldwide, Khan Academy has more than 150 million registered users in 190 countries, with free lessons available in more than 50 languages.
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Grand Ballroom, Long Beach Convention Center
General Session