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I made a lesson plan yesterday and I would be teaching final year students approaching graduation in my neighborhood about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general and career opportunities involved in the discussion as soon as the lockdown is lifted.

 You can as well suggest topics I can cover time to time. I will be dedicating 3 weeks for the campaign. I hope to update the forum about the development too.

That's a nice opportunity for those graduating students that you'll be teaching about bitcoin. IMHO, the introduction as usual for the first few days and the basics.

The do's and don'ts in investing in bitcoin or cryptocurrencies and what are the red flags of an investment. Because in today's time, if a newbie already heard about bitcoin they'll treat it as an investment and that's why they should be aware of how do scam investments look like.

Good luck with that op.

Cool.

You might like to look at https://bitcoin.org/en/ as they provide the resources that they need to understand.
It would be a good start there.

Better to start teaching them the basics. More about history which answers their questions and curiosity with Bitcoin. This could give them excitement and clearly understand the reason behind of its creations. It soon they learn more if the discussion will continue and for them to absorb what you have taught. Surely it takes time but that is worthy enough of they got what they wanted to know.

What we would like to see is that people we truly understand crypto and let them know the advantage and disadvantages of having this.

Great idea.  I am a history teacher and my approach would be to compare it to traditional banking and its application as an alternative to the fiat system. There is a great short documentary on YouTube on Bitcoin and it covers exactly this topic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LszOt51OjXU

I wish that I could get my own teenage kids interested, or that their teachers would offer the same.

Good luck

The fact that you want to teach about crypto, I'm sure you already know what to cover starting from basic to advanced.

As a side subject, try to cover the safety and ways to avoid scams. Put on their mind that there's no overnight profit in crypto and there's no such thing as a quick-rich scheme. Tell them also the time where Bitcoin experience a hard dump so that they will know the risks and not just being positive.

In that way, we can see if they will still interested to know more about crypto even knowing how risky putting money on crypto is.

This is good, you can go ahead but make sure you understand about cryptocurrencies excellently before you will start to teach them, they only still need to know the basic aspect. In my suggestion, these are what should first be taught:
*  Telling them what bitcoin is
*  Telling them about wallets and and their uses
*  Exchanges, types and functions.
*  How to maintain privacy
*  Hodling, trading and the risky they may pose.
*  How Altcoins are more volatile and how they are more risky and their benefits
*  Try to let them know little about mining
*  Also about hackers, malware and crypto scam.

Teach them that Bitcoin is an investment. Like any other investment they should never play with money they can't afford to lose. Teach them to be aware, stay awake, and use common sense to protect them from the majority of scams. Tell them about the dangers of hype, pump & dump scams, and help them to become their own banks, and be independent from third parties and unreliable services.   

Nice plan to spread the name and potentiality of bitcoin among your students. I think it will be better to teach them with basics first rather than giving lesson about bitcoin investment at an early stage. In this forum there is plenty of threads about bitcoin and its long journey. So i think you will easily get these by spending a little extra time here.

During continuing your classes you can introduce them with "Bitcointalk" and by using this forum they can enrich their knowledge vault by their own.

Hope for the best and waiting to see your students improvement updates from your side soon.  

That's a nice initiative OP. Teaching them about bitcoin is just like the same with how teachers teach them with the lesson. Obviously, starting from the introduction, the basics, and slowly moving into the technical part. Also, don't forget about the application of bitcoin and crypto in real life.

But I think you don't have to worry about the topics you will discuss that much, as long as they can understand the lesson because they are already graduating students and for sure, they already have a better understanding. And if they are really interested, they can make their own research. Btw, I also want to know what will happen to your discussion, so please update us.

That's great, All teachers and schools should do the same. In my time we don't have general and career opportunities subject :D How about your school regulation, they are not strict about cryptocurrencies? Since you are about to share them one of the best creations of mankind, start with the history, how it all started so that they will be inspired. You can find info here or just google it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin#Creation

Great concept indeed. It's really a good opportunity for the bitcoin legal countries where people can easily share name of bitcoin publicly. So my some suggestions to describe level by level.

1. First say them what is bitcoins.
2. How this work.+ how to secure it.
3. Where you can use it.
4. Advantage /disadvantage  of using bitcoin.
5. Ways of earning bitcoin from internet.
6. Bitcoin trading. (If you know more about it), etc.

You can start with this points. There are more things will be come when all students will be pro about crypto. 

That great initiative that can help people to understand first what is Bitcoin and how it works behind in the Blockchain technology.

All suggestion above was right and let your student know first the basic information about Bitcoin and the Blockchain how they become correlated. It might be good if you start it here, https://bitcoin.org/en/how-it-works.

I hope someday you will come back to it here and give us an update or improvements in your student's learning.
Anyway, thank you for sharing!

For a start, you can teach them the basic like how it works and how it was created and what are the motivations of the creators why he created it, and the goals and the benefits that every generation can get out of using this technology, as much as possible don't discuss about volatility until they understand how it really works, concentrate on it's usage.

I am curious about the lesson plan and why you think working on Bitcoin or crypto is a good choice or not for them.
however, related to what topics they should know:
1. it must be the basic about bitcoin and cryptocurrencies
2. Tell the profits and also risks that we will probably gain in the crypto world
3. Tell about the prospect of the income to be got from crypto, but never tell that it will be very promising and aking them rich easily.

Final year students at what level of education, university/college or high school final year students, that's important in deciding the direction your tutoring will take, as well as the age of the students, their understanding capacity and financial strength, as far as investments is concerned.

I'll take universitity students for example, from my experience of those who have approached me, they are more concerned about 'how to invest in bitcoin' and already have, maybe not a firm, but at least a grip of the basics. If you are going to be teaching younger students, investment which involves capital may not be paramount, their curiosity will be more of "what is bitcoin".

It is a very good idea. I always appreciate this type of idea. If you really wanna teach them well. I suggest you that, first of all, don't talk about income, teach them basic about BTC and Blockchain first. no matter how much you teach, without basic it will incomplete and useless. secondly, I suggest you to teach them about all kind of crypto currency. After that inform them about the BTC market, tell them the history of BTC, and give them an idea of what the future of BTC. I think your teaching will be successful, if you teach them step by step.
Best of luck

Great I honestly think that teaching cryptocurrency, blockchain, or bitcoin really needs to be teach in schools.

Surely blockchain technology needed to be adopted in a lot of countries and student needs to learn about this future technology. Maybe some countries could add blockchain or cryptocurrency as a subject for some college students.+

I support what you are doing just giving them knowledge about bitcoin is definitely a big help.

I like your idea and I hope they learn this techy valuable thing, that is bitcoin.

Teaching to this great technology will I guess 3 weeks is not enough, because there crucial factors that they must learn not just bitcoin is a form of payment or investment, they should understand the mechanism on it.

I don't know where to start but I think from basic to the inner core of what is bitcoin.
-Understanding the Mechanism of Blockchain
 * Blockchain technology
 * Blockchain platforms
 * Blockchain software
 * Blockchain services offered

Some dippest examples that listeners will learn.

Good luck with your journey and stay safe upon teaching.

Age range from 14-23.
Financial ability I can't vouch for each of them but I think 4/10 of them can afford a smartphone and would be able to access the internet.

As I see it, the age range has the capacity to understand at least the basic topic mentioned by other community members here. Maybe it would be better to share your lesson plan here in the community in order for other members to examine and suggest a good chronological order of bitcoin related topics that you can teach.

Just to give you glimpse of topics that you can easily teach: https://www.lopp.net/bitcoin-information.html#

I've bookmarked the page. I will go through this till the lockdown is lifted and life returns to normalcy. I will try my very best to inculcate deep knowledge and relative understanding in them.

I think your ideas are much better then students can easily learn and gain knowledge about crypto This will double the demand for crypto There are many students who sit even after completing graduation. If they learn about crypto from now on, they will be able to analyze everything very easily while working on crypto I will find away Much better decision to brighten their future Best of luck.

Wow.l! That is such a good initiative. They will surely be interested in crypto and be knowledgeable about it because of you teaching them such.

I know some people who knew about bitcoin early but didn't even bothered to tell others about it. So I salute you sir for sharing your knowledge to those students. Hope, they will also pass on what they will learn from you so that others will be able to know bitcoin better. After all, sharing is caring. :)

The idea of sharing your knowledge with others is generally a positive thing, but I would advise you to be careful when it comes to something that involves money or anything that can lead to financial losses. You should also take into account that you will put yourself at risk if you go public, because maybe someone thinks that you have a significant amount of BTC and you can become the target of an attack.

Don't let this discourage you, but I think you have to look at the other side of the coin and consider what you can gain and what you can lose. You can teach others without physical contact using some video apps, or you can create a website and then share it with your friends.

You can post the lessons here also I'm sure many newbies will benefit, that is going to be a rewarding experience for you and your students it's easy to teach this technology to students than these professionals because you can easily arise their curiosity and inspire them to embrace this technology, you can include the profit that people are making here but also teach the volatility of the market.

There is a lot to learn if you want to get into the cryptocurrency market, if you want to tell new people about bitcoin I think there are a few things you should tell them:
The short definition of bitcoin, its advantages, disadvantages and history
How to create Bitcoin wallets and store them
The scams on the cryptocurrency market
The risks of participating in the cryptocurrency market
Personally, I would like to tell them, "Never invest everything in bitcoin."

of the three topics that you mentioned are indeed important topics to convey. But more important is how to safely store or use a bitcoin wallet. Because many people are careless with the storage method they use. one example of using a hardware wallet is a safe way that can be used but must buy a wallet with it for about $ 100- $ 200. All also depends on each user. Some students might understand better what they have to do to secure their bitcoin wallet.

It’s a great thing that you are going to teach college students about Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology, especially in this worldwide pandemic.

In the Philippines, there are a few well-known universities who are offering blockchain elective courses. When I was in Cebu City as a keynote speaker to educate students and teachers about Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and blockchain, the faculty, staff and crypto advocates invited me for a meeting-after-meeting session.

It convinced them to consider implementing courses that would cover Bitcoin, cryptos and blockchain technology in their curriculum. It’s all about continued awareness, advocacy and education about the real and positive use cases of it.

As for the OP, you’ve done a wonderful job in doing this to your college students. Cheers!

It will go a long way if you do make them know how Bitcoin truly works. Today, there are a lot of misconceptions about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general. I feel if people had a background knowledge about bitcoin, blockchains and cryptocurrencies, It will go a long way. Even though it's just the fundamentals. That should get them curious enough to learn.

More topics suggestion:

– Working with Bitcoin.
– Demystify some terminologies used in the crypto space.
– How blockchain works
– Crypto markets and why it's not a typical get rich scheme as most ponzi schemes make it look.

That and  suggestions by members should be enough. Goodluck with your campaign. I'd be keeping an eye out for updates!

In addition to what previous responders have written, I want to add that you should teach them the basic of investing in bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general. The new way of scammers decieving gullible newbies and scamming them is becoming alarming. Let them understand the only way to invest safely is to buy their coins and store in their personal wallet and not on exchanges.

Also let them understand that them giving their miney to the so called cryptocurrency, blockchain experts to trade, invest or store for them is foolishness. Their patronizing of Ponzi scheme, matric, MLM business using bitcoin and other altcoins as payment option isn't cryptocurrency investment. Let them understand that before they think about investing in other altcoins they should own some Satoshi that's if they can't afford 1 bitcoin.

Goodluck, keep us updated...

Well, that's a great initiative and thanks for that. Here is some topics related to bitcoin as well as other crypto-currencies, you can teach to your students and i think it'll help them a lot ot understand the world of blockchain and crypto-currencies:

--> Why people should adopt Bitcoin/crypto-currency rather than Fiat and why fiat is not worthy compare to Bitcoin/crypto?
--> Difference between Open and Private Blockchain
--> Evolution of Bitcoin and ALtcoins
--> Try to cover all the blockchain type like POW, POS etc and which is more powerful
--> How the smart contract works and evolution of it
--> Also try to explain advantages of Dapp and it's powerful usages than App
--> Why Dex ( Decentralized Exchange ) is more trustable than the Centralized exchanges.

I hope, all this topic will help them to get a clear idea about the Blockchain and Crypto-currency, IMO.

That is a great move mate, it is really good to share information about the crypto world to other people, thank you for sharing your knowledge about cryptocurrency to other people. There are many people who are still don't have any knowledge about cryptocurrency, it is important to have someone who will teach them about it, it will benefit them someday, here are topics that you can use to elaborate for them.
1. What is cryptocurrency?
2. What are the things we can do to cryptocurrency?
3. What is the difference of cryptocurrency to fiat currency?
4. How cryptocurrency produced?

There is a bad approach to his idea (OP), but surely a great will.

I have seen this initiative elsewhere and developed they make the same mistake, well, it is not a mistake, it is a bad approach, a teacher only needs a student to execute his pedagogy, where? And how? sometimes it doesn't matter because only the knowledge is missing and someone who wants to receive it. Their case

One should not look for three people and teach bitcoin, in their case university students just tell them! Hey, do you know bitcoin? At that level it is more effective to debate and in the teaching process, university students are involved in being able to research and acquire basic knowledge.


21st century, Google! You only need to have the doubt to gain knowledge, there is no better time (epoch) to be ignorant, we only need to know in which subjects we are ignorant to investigate and get out of the absolute zero of ignorance in any subject.

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Where? And how? / How? Where? .
After spreading the seed of the word bitcoin and the debate to help your group of college kids understand or the three-person group (for example) you should take the next level, the approach.

Find the teachers...and talk about bitcoin, the more people who like you "idea," more effective it becomes in the scope of knowledge.

Keep climbing and go to the directors, so give the seeds in them of bitcoin, in this process you may recruit some enthusiasts (director, teachers, college students).

With those enthusiasts go or send an email to your educational ministry, federation or whatever you call it in your country and create schedules of regional activities, or simply ask permission to spread bitcoin in your guild as a technological alternative that can have a not only economic effect but social.

Becoming a bitcoin ambassador only requires the desire, today's technologies can allow you to become their guild in, perhaps, a benchmark, they may not recognize your effort, in the present time, but in the future you It will be remembered, I assure you by your colleagues and students, like the teacher who told me about bitcoin.

Warning: be careful, the thin line of being recognized as a bitcoin ambassador or enthusiast is very close to the risk of losing credibility, well, you understand me if you want to spread bitcoin you know what I mean.

That's a good idea if they will embrace your free gifts to them as college students. Do you intend to teach them free without charges? Just asking because many of them won't take your lessons serious; when it is free, just speaking from experience though. Your kind should be appreciated for such initiative by your colleagues.

Advise: be patient with them because they are noobs and getting to hear some terminologies from the industry first time. Don't get into your teaches with "you can make hundreds, thousands or millions from cryptocurrency investment or trade". Show them how important to be with the right ideas when talking about cryptocurrency.

Suggested Topics:
1) cryptocurrency basics
i. Beginners guide to cryptocurrency
ii. Uses of cryptocurrencies
iii. Types of cryptocurrency
iv. Cryptocurrency communities.

 cryptodetail.com  (https://cryptodetail.com/category/bitcoin-basics).
Wish you good luck mate.

Students are always poor.... a lot of us has been there and we know the feeling. This might be one of the topics that you have to touch in more detail, namely : "How to earn bitcoins" .... by this I am not just saying.. getting paid in bitcoin, but rather doing any kind of job to earn fiat cash and then converting that into bitcoins. (Too many people are looking for sites and Ponzi schemes to get rich quick or to get paid with bitcoin)

I will also include all the safe storage methods of bitcoins... because they will work hard to get it, but it can quickly get lost if they store it in the wrong way. (Include the creation of safe offline storage methods like, Paper wallets.  ;)

Taken into consideration. What are the possible sites you think one can exchange some hours of work for Bitcoin as the newbies would love to learn about this too. Everyone wants to be financially free. :-X

Good initiative because most of the children today does not have enough knowledge and does not know that there is an existing with the use of the bitcoin because this is not too much popular on them and does not too much common when they have a normal conversation about this kind of coin but still even there is news on the bitcoin common thing is on the internet only like they are using this kind of coin only for a black market and only for the internet but today some of the people make an investment with the use of it and earn a lot of profit with the help of it.

Also, it is good at the early age they make an investment on it so they can make more profit for the next coming years of their lives still you need to become a mentor or guide on that because if we are talking about bitcoin it is too much broad and we want to teach them for the specific use only and improve by the time by time.


That's the reason why we need to guide the children or the students because most of the time there is a higher chance that someone is trying to scam them and to make more money because the newbies do not have enough knowledge.

I believe that you have a good initiative to teach your student about bitcoin and cryptocurrency. I just want to suggest that you only have to teach them the basics of cryptocurrency as currency, usability, how it works and security. You dont need to teach them technical details about bitcoin or cryptocurrency. Let them experiment on their own after they get basic direction about bitcoin or cryptocurrency. Basic understanding is the most important thing to know and after that let them set their own goal for bitcoin or cryptocurrency.

At the moment I have no desire to teach bitcoin to other in the real world. This is because of the limited time and understanding that I have about bitcoin and if it has to be then I will only teach them the basics which later I will also direct them to the forum to gain broader understanding and knowledge.
I dont doubt your ability as a teacher, but in the end student will only focus on how to make money from bitcoin. Only that, maybe.

This is a good thing. A very good opportunity for all these students. To teach the cryptography field is a great and wonderful work. Frankly, I have the same thinking as you. I plan to establish a specialized institute for teaching cryptography and everything related to it. I wish you success.

Ever since I started participating, acquiring, having knowledge about cryptocurrency, I have never come across this website. No mentor had ever shown me that site, I'm really surprise to see such site as the real and first bitcoin website that explains full details about bitcoin and blockchain. Thank you so much Boss, you helped someone here because I'm learning everyday.
You doing a nice job op, most students think bitcoin is all about digital money doubler,  a ponzi schemes pyramid as others scammers had turned it into. Teach them the real basics about bitcoin and blockchain, the purpose of bitcoin, where can be stored, how can be it stored, how does it depreciate, effect of demand and supply on bitcoin price, and many more to teach. Success Buddy.

This is a very good initiative. It's a friend of mine and thought to silo but in the end it didn't work out. I hope your honest plan will succeed. I wish you all the best. I would like you to open a coaching center where you will be taught the details about Bitcoin. Where many poor young generation people tell you about bitcoin. It can help your area and country to reduce unemployment. Thank you again for undertaking such a great project.

Well guess I am an educator too in secondary level and doing a part time job on tertiart level.

I know most of education system has similarities being copied from one system modified or improve and there were guidelines being imposed. I do not know how these could be possible to teach bitcoin in students literally in formal or classroom instruction. This surely will violate guidelines on the teaching process regarding on irrelevant topics to be discussed for example bitcoin.

Bitcoin is not yet formally introduced by the government and it is also impossible to for now because or rumors against bitcoin like scam investment.

However, I know that bitcoin will going to be part of the culture one day. Well just have to wait on when could it be just like the pandemic we are facing now. Some countries do consider it as the new normal way of living life adapting the current situations with the pandemic.

This is a really good move. Congratulations on making my plan a hit But i feel the simplest thanks to teaching students about crypto is to burn in batches. this may increase everyone's attention and help one to unravel the matter of another. the scholars won't be disappointed Everyone will find how to urge obviate their frustration and unemployment Before that, the essential idea must be applied to everyone.

Kind intentions to educate young generations with cryptocurrency, interest will jumped once this
people realized the potentials of this system.
There are many usages especially if they go deeper and start learning blockchain technology. This
initiative will be appreciated in the long run
next generations students will begin using blockchain/bitcoin.

I think you should consider Blockchain technology to be part of your lessons. Show them how blocks work and how Bitcoin and crypto were connected with it. It was a really broad and vast topic to be discussed in three weeks yet if you could really explain it well, it would only take days to make them understand it. BTW, would you tell us what topics have you already written in your plan and what are the scopes of your lessons? There are things in crypto that are complex that you might find a difficulty to teach them soon.

Please don't teach them that Bitcoin can be their source of income, soon they might struggle with such ideology.

I think the idea is basically a good one. But I still don't quite understand what your goal is? Do you want to teach the students how to buy Bitcoins, for which applications the Blockchain is good or do you want to explain the monetary system to the students?
In general it is a difficult topic, because people of that age are more likely to see the potential gain than the loss.

This is a very good concern your plan will certainly be much better but how you will teach them about bitcoin is unknown to us. If you have taken a financial advantage then there are many poor talented people who will not be able to learn bitcoin However, education through blockchain technology will move the young society forward huge later they will become more interested in working in crypto and the demand for crypto will increase.

golden idea, cryptocurrencies will be their best investment, instead of spending money at graduation parties, buying a new car, looking for a job, or traveling, they can invest it and buy all of these things with a return on investment.
Educate them about the economy and how bitcoin works more than how you know it.
you can let them invest them and less than 3 years.

You want students at the age of 14 to invest in something that can also cause high losses? You know nothing about the economic background of the students.
How can you be sure that they will stay invested in Bitcoin and not switch to Shitcoins with more gain but at even higher risk?

If you are young you dont think to much about your future. Andi f you have the possibility to get rich very quick you ignore the warnings (FOMO). But it is not the students, it is their parents as well. What would you do if your child loses her money due to a teacher
Don't get me wrong, I like the idea from OP. But it can also become problematic.

Maybe we can teach younger people to invest in crypto, but we must tell them about the risk, so they can understand and don't make a rash decision. They need to learn about bitcoin investment or crypto investment to think and manage their money to be used for the investment. If they lose the investment, they can learn from the mistake, so they can have the experience and will not repeat the other mistake.

It's a nice idea you've got there and choosing an almost or already graduating students is a good pick as they are already used to the learning culture and can actively practice what they learn by means of participation.
Though, we don't know what your lesson plan looks like, do ensure to take them through the various terminologies involved in Bitcoin and cryptocurrency as a field and in the simplest of terms without ambiguity.
It aids for better understanding.

Maybe in the near future when Cryptocurrencies are widely used universities and schools will create a special course for this, we need proper education on the subject of Cryptocurrency although there are many videos on Youtube and many articles only it's different when taught in school.