Gallery: The Tech Elite's Quest to Reinvent School in Its Own Image

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    Salman Khan, founder of the Khan Lab School, photographed in Mountain View, California, in September 2015.
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    A student checks work on an iPad (left). Students organize books in the library (right).
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    iPad storage (left). Library checkout system (right).
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    To understand the challenges and opportunities of global collaboration, the students were given the mission to build a boat that could carry four of their classmates across a lake. The students were split into three teams to represent one of three nations. Each nation (Japan, Spain, Germany) was responsible for building one third of the boat. The students were then sequestered into one of three rooms, which they could not leave. They completed all designing, coordinating, and troubleshooting in the country’s language by using Google Translate, Trello, and Slack. No English was allowed. The only time the teams met was when it was time to join together the three sections of the boat.
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    A student works on a Lego project.
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    Students challenging each other to a game of chess (left). Headphones and a voice level system (right).
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    Legos!
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    A student shucks corn that was grown in the school garden (left). Students tend to the garden (right).
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    Students play with a lizard they found in the garden.
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