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Big Thinkers: Salman Khan on Liberating the Classroom for Creativity

The founder of Khan Academy, a free educational video library that features over two thousand titles and an interactive dashboard for formative assessment, discusses how his videos can help create a "flipped classroom" that allows blended learning -- online lectures can happen at home and project-based learning can happen during school.

The founder of Khan Academy, a free educational video library that features over two thousand titles and an interactive dashboard for formative assessment, discusses how his videos can help create a "flipped classroom" that allows blended learning -- online lectures can happen at home and project-based learning can happen during school.
Download | Credits | Release Date: 9/30/2011

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  • Zachary Fink

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  • Doug Keely

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  • Zachary Fink
  • Doug Keely

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  • Amy Erin Borovoy

Executive Producer

  • David Markus
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Sal Khan is doing great work and innovating a whole new way of educational system. We are greatly complimented by Khan Academy's videos but what we are asking our HiFiKIDS to become Sal Khan in their own way and motivate their friends and family.
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 of questions kids answer correctly which is submitted by another same age kids are totaled 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 astonishing. It is indeed motivating 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 believe that this system will generate self educational echo system across the globe and create a unique database of kid's educational videos. Instead of gauging or assessing kids only by exams, our system assesses them via their presentation about the certain topics they know and show others that they know something better.
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 and also contact us at support@hifikids.com for more information to get started and use our system in your school.
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Thank you! Is there any way (in the future) you can make videos in Spanish as well for the immersion crowd? Especially in lower grades (K-3) when the Spanish percentage is so high.