This is an interesting fact about Las vegas. Similar thinking is seen in amny parts of the world where kids before graduating jump into job as they want to earn money than earning degrees. In many countries due to poorty or because families cannot afford for the education kids are forced to do the job and leave the education. We at www.hifikids.com thoughtfully designed a system where kids can generate their passion by submitting their interested educational topics and develop their own passion even if kids are working or earling money while they learn in our system.
HiFiKIDS.com is an another revolutionary way of motivating kids for studies or anything of their interests. We encourage kids to come up and present their topic of interests in front of the video camera by asking one single question at the end of their presentation with multiple choice answers (Remember "Who wants to be a millionaire" or "Who is smarter then 5th grader?" format but here kids act like an anchor of the hifikids.com's "WHo wants to be hifikids scholar?" program) and then upload the video presentation in our Virtual School. It comes for the approval to check if the contents are appropriate for that age and submitted parameters are appropriate. Once approved by the approver it then gets published for the similar age kids who are living around that place so that neighborhood kids can understand their language ascent very well. So the number of questions kids submit and the number questions kids answer correctly which is submitted by another same age kids are totalled which generates passion graph. In this public level program, we encourage kids to come up with the topics they love or they know the most or they enjoy the most and can comfortably present in front of the camera. This is how our passion graph accurately shows their growing passion and by doing this over the period will help teachers /parents to know their real interests or genuine skills. We are doing some small pilot programs in some schools in India and results are very positive. It is indeed motiviating kids and they are coming up with new new topics on their own. Some kids are very interested in poems, or some in maths or some in science experiments or some in history or some in geography. Some also presents sport activities. When they watch other's videos they get motivated and compete with each other to present more and more videos.
We also have a plan to expand this concept to make a full virtual school for the kids across the globe. Please check this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzEgX1NQk6k
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