This is for a personal writing project I'm working on. I imagine that Bitcoin would be good for things like teaching things like math with decimals ("How many Satoshis do you need to get a tenth of a Bitcoin?", stuff like that), budgeting (Spend it on whatever you want, but when it's gone, it's gone), or even a little bit of IT / programming stuff like how cryptography works. What do you guys think of this?
I got some of the students to post stories, homework writing assigments and such on our school's blog (along with their Bitcoin addresses that I had shown them how to get). Then I asked attendees at our local Bitcoin Meetup to visit the blog and donate to the kids.
You should have seen their faces when they opened their wallets!
That led to me building a site, with a similar goal, but available to any school or student at
http://blogsbystudents.com/They can still post their own address on their own articles but this startup is part of a bigger project to derive long-term income from the traffic. Students can use their blog site to sell advertising in the entire network (as a fundraiser). They may make some sales from what comes in via the web, but also from personal contacts and relatives. SO, instead of selling chocolates, or cookies or raffles, a class or a school could sell advertising. They all continue to get paid commissions continuously for each and every ad purchase infinitely.