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I'm a high school teacher. I was given the opportunity to assess my students understanding of bitcoin today after class. I was shocked to find that most of them knew very little or nothing about it. Since the majority looked interested and willing to learn more, I made the decision to explain the concept as well as practical examples.
When the lecture was over, I was thrilled that I had introduced the subject because many of them were enthusiastic and had asked wonderful questions.
In the next two to three years, some of them will grow to be adult, and it's good to let them know about some financial decisions and actions they will take as they are growing into adulthood.
I also made sure to tell them not to engage into it for now not until they have have grown to have a much more wider  understanding of he system. Cause there are cons as much as pros in it..

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Wow! That's nice.

Sharing your knowledge of Bitcoin with your learners is a very welcome development. Sure, they have first hand information from you.

I am a newbie in Bitcoin too. I want to learn how to trade and invest in Bitcoin.

Mind telling us a few pointers on what you specifically talked about? Hopefully you truly know what you're talking about, because sometimes no information is better than bad information; especially in the context of bitcoin and investing in general.

Yea that's a smart move, telling them about Bitcoin.I think it will be a great idea, if Bitcoin and other crypto trading is taught as an extra curriculum activities in school. It would make lots of sense for those student who would be going into trading in the nearest future. Informing them at a young age will help them broaden their idea on the cryptocurrency market, and at an older age trading won't be a problem for them cause they already learnt the foundation parts back in school.
They should also not engage in it for now because they wont be able to bear the risk all by them selfs. it will distract them from their studies and they may end up having low grades

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 I introduced them to the concept called bitcoin, how decentralised it works, how it is different from our local currency,  I told them how bitcoin is held as a digital and electronical money, that you can store it, exchange it and use it to make payment.

I was in college when I first discovered Bitcoin and I learned the hard way through joining ponzi mlm, doubler and gambling before I start discovering Bitcoin technical feature. Guiding young minds is always good so that they will prepared on what’s coming especially if they discover it for themselves but this time they knew already what they need to avoid due to your guidance unlike that try all those shit scam scheme before I learned.

You should include the outline of your lesson here so that we can help you on improving it. I just that you have a good introduction before start discussing it because some of them might get the wrong the idea about Bitcoin and become greedy on investing ponzi scheme.

I think this is definitely a good aspect of learning as well as these cryptic discussions will be of great use to your students in the future. Discussions about Bitcoin will create a curiosity in their mind to know about Bitcoin which will help them to get a better understanding about Bitcoin before long.  When they later become adults and get into cryptocurrency, this idea will come in handy in their future.

I really appreciate your efforts for making some brave move with telling kids about bitcoin and I am seeing these threads quite frequently on forum from some time and happy to see these things.But I would also say that you tell them how to store your coins safely as most of them might not be aware about it which is why see they losing money so it would be great to add this topic also.

   -   Like you, I am also one of those who shared the concept of bitcoin with the children of my neighbors here in the community where I live and I even made a topic here in this forum https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5438924.0 but these young people showed a willingness to learn what bitcoin is.

And knowing that Bitcoin is a deep matter, I didn't teach the depth right away but its usages were the beginning if shared with them. I just want to ask you OP, you said that you are a teacher, what is it that you gave them that is bitcoin as a subject to your students? or did you just insert it into your teaching as a teacher?

Your intentions for them are good, but it's still different because the initiative to find out what bitcoin is will come from someone who wants to learn it, compared to us wanting to teach them. But anyway, congratulations on that.

It's not actually shocking to know that most of them know little or nothing about bitcoin. As for looking at the image, it seems that most of them are still young ones.

Anyway, that's a good initiative on your end being a teacher of their class. You have just given them the idea about bitcoin's existence and that's already more than enough for them. They'll surely remember it and others might tell it to their parents and relatives of what they've learned from your class. If it's already clear to them on what bitcoin is, that will break the stereotype from the others if ever they will relay to what you've taught them.

I would be more shocked if the children had some idea of bitcoin. There are very young, and don’t have money of their own. It’s normal their primary interest at this age is not about making money or investments. The image you provided is unclear, I have to strain my eyes to see your outline on the blackboard, your focus was
1. Introduction to Bitcoin
2. Economic role of bitcoin
I would suggest you look up other members who have done similar projects and see how you can improve yours from there. Agbe (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5403925.msg60433582#msg60433582) has a nice template you can follow. Good initiative, it always beautiful to see bitcoin awareness spreading to the rural areas.

A good start I guess.

Don't ever ever use the word "invest now" against them because from the looks of your students, they're like high school students, and can easily be attracted especially when it comes to money (sorry I might be judgmental on that part :D). Anyway, having somebody that will guide to them is always a good. Just don't let them invest at least for now and at the same time, let them watch documentaries with regards to Bitcoin as well. That help me know more about Bitcoin when I was still new to it so I believe it will be a big help for your students as well.

Last thing, teach them how to know if it's a scam or not in the future.

For sure, those students are not aware of bitcoin as they are having difficulty accessing the internet in your country. I'm not sure where you came from, but I think the accessibility of technologies is difficult, which is why there is little to no knowledge on it and they are just browsing the internet for fun. It is a good start to teach them about bitcoin, and for sure they will get interested in it. Also, it is best if you show them the charts and the actual sending and receiving of bitcoin from your laptop or phone so that they can imagine it well.

Awareness at the right time could make more people know about bitcoin and understand the need for bitcoin. More classes and awareness is being created among the young generation by our community members. More and more spread is happening in Nigeria which is the best happening in the country. Nigeria is growing as a fintech hub for the African continent amidst the launch of the country's own digital currency, e-naira. Giving basic learning about cryptocurrencies will make the world better place for the future generation.

Your efforts are quite good as a high school teacher introducing the concept of bitcoin from the basics to how bitcoin works and there is still much that your school children need to learn about other bitcoin technology so they really understand all aspects of bitcoin that you have taught them.

They also need a lot of guidance if they are interested in the introduction of bitcoin such as risk management, about investment, trading, and storage in non-custodial wallets, not only that because bitcoin has many functions we have to study in depth but with the initial capital your concept is still given pretty good for kids.

Now it's easier to learn bitcoin because it's already in school but in the past when I wanted to learn I had to look for it myself on the internet to understand all the concepts on my own without anyone else.

Good job mate, but if that is a government school aka public school you are going against its rules and you can be prosecuted for doing that, imagine the principal walking in on you and asking you questions, that topic is not on any school syllabus and that's why we are never thought some things in school about money, also, Bitcoin the second crime could be, that Bitcoin is not presently legal in your country.

You did well but, just be careful.

Great theachers are trying to educate their students about it

I admire the bold step taken by OP, its a good initiative I hope will bear fruit in the future. It’s never to early or late to learn about bitcoin. Students at this age take knowledge to heart and I’m sure they will remember this lecture for a long time.


I think OP is a youth corper and judging from the facilities provided, it’s most likely a public school. AFAIK Bitcoin is legal in Nigeria, so there won’t be any persecuting here on that basis. Also OP first statement implies he had the permission of the school authorities to teach bitcoin after school hours.

I'm not fond to the idea of teaching niche or subspecialty things like Bitcoin. Though, there is nothing wrong with what you have done. My main concern is how the results are analysed, like what metrics are chosen as the basis of a formula that tells the program is working and doing effectively. The student looking interested or having curiosity won't indicate how well this program performs or the pedagogy processes.

Personally, Most of the education systems in the world, especially in the third-world countries, in the basic sense are ineffective. Thus it is more encouraged to teach basic things deeper and has a better process of pedagogy.

That's a good job and can give a little push and strength to strengthen the crypto currency especially we talk about Bitcoin, maybe from us mentioning good steps and good ideas that you have done, actually we don't know what you will give understanding to them, the most important thing is that you are material enough to explain about Bitcoin and how it works and a very reasonable explanation.

Some of the media spread about Bitcoin, but it's just that they don't recognize it correctly, some even present a negative nature about Bitcoin, maybe here we understand from your statement, provide good insight for them in a good way.

The majority of children in any country are always happy with new things that they don't know about, even though once they know it, it's not necessarily that they are occupied more optimally or in depth. And it's only natural that more children don't know about Bitcoin because all they think about now is learning to graduate from school with the best grades and predicate. So it would not be good if the new things they learned could hinder the children from achieving the best predicate in their school.

Telling them early about Bitcoin wasn't wrong, but I just don't think the time was right enough for them to know this now. Even though they are not in school for so long because in the end they will also graduate and are free to choose their own paths. But there is a bright side here is that you are trying to explain and give a little warning to them not to get directly involved in Bitcoin at this time before they grow to maturity and that is the right thing for you to say to them after all the explanations you have given are finished.

Undoubtedly, OP's initiative is good. What worries me about this story is that a normal blackboard was used in lesson about bitcoin. I understand that this allows you to explain the general concept, but in this context it looks like a story about something abstract without visual examples. That is, bitcoin doesn't exist in the material world, but you are trying to explain it with the tools of the physical world. So what I'm saying is that, at the very least, you should tell and show bitcoin in the digital world: wallets, blockexplorer, mempull, transactions, sending and receiving btc on another wallet. All this needs to be demonstrated on a PC or phone. Or in the form of step-by-step pictures and posters. What you explained will only confuse the children and will not allow them to understand well, but at least it may interest them.

If I were told about bitcoin using a school board, then I would not really understand anything about it.

What you say is true, OP good intentions really deserve our appreciation because he want to provide knowledge of technological advances, especially digital currency, even though the world is has developing, I'm sure there are many people who don't understand and know what blockchain is and like what the OP did, of course it is mandatory for us to provide information about blockchain or crypto technology to other people, what the OP has done is correct but as you said it is better for the OP to be more careful and understand if indeed not all countries allow crypto lessons to be given, but I think OP needs to improvise a bit in explaining bitcoin to his students in a subtle way and doesn't violate school or government regulations.

Indeed, I also appreciate the OP's ideas and efforts, but I doubt the effectiveness of this session. We are talking about things on the internet, and without pictures or real examples, students will understand nothing but vague concepts of bitcoin. And another risk is, this is an extracurricular session that is not part of the school's curriculum, OP should ask the school's permission before teaching bitcoin to students. Don't make bitcoin illegal.

You are doing a very cool thing!I am sure many people will be interested and in the future will also be part of the crypto industry and the big community.And you will be the foundation for their future.I like such enthusiastic people who themselves bring information to society and share their knowledge.Don't stop and keep doing good things.

indeed not everyone knows about bitcoin because of many factors that cause it
people who don't know bitcoin, among others, because there is no internet access to the area..

You teach about bitcoin to your students that is a good thing.

OP is doing good work that helps with the wide spread of bitcoin. The efforts taken by him surely helps atleast a single child to explore much about bitcoin and continue to learn. With due respect while teaching we should give them the awareness too, because some sort of misunderstanding about bitcoin as a way to be rich or something like that will make them to be on the wrong direction. Let them understand the technology and slowly they'll understand the ways to earn as well as the risks that needs to be faced. Once again I appreciate the efforts of OP.

I think there is upward spike of this trend where teachers, technical peeps are taking it to the next level of teaching subjects associated with bitcoin and blockchain. They should really start adding the subject in the syllabus itself so that it will be taken seriously by students as well. For example, having test papers for the blockchain related topics and bitcoin.

The Gen Z would go on the right path if they are told about it since teen age.

Good to know there are peeps like you who are always doing extra stuff out of your own passion. Surely you have chosen right topics but also kee them specific and short but quick to understand. It can sow seed of crypto space easily. Good luck mate.

now the era is getting more advanced and modern, as well as investment matters now investment has also had many modern changes, if in the past, people only invested in gold, land and so on. but before there was no such thing as investing in the internet or digital world, as was being lived now by many people namely investing in bitcoin.

so I think it's important to provide education about bitcoin to children with the aim that they are not out of date, and also to know that bitcoin is a valuable asset which of course provides many positive opportunities, for those who are interested in investing in it.

so you did a very good thing...

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When you are teaching, focus on good education books and don't teach with your own modifications because you can express technical things not accurately.

This is definitely a good initiative, I wish you that the students accept it as well as possible. I hope you understand the great responsibility you are taking on, after all, cryptocurrencies and financial risks are inseparable. Be careful with talking about markets and strategies. I can advise you to start with the basics of economics for students: reading the book "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" by Robert Kiyosaki. And it is better to tell students about the blockchain first, and then about Bitcoin.

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First I would want to commend you on your efforts towards trying your best to make sure you impacted on those Young teenager. I know it's very hard for most schools principal to allow teachers to teach student what is not on their scheme of work.
Then lastly, for you to indulged in this activity next time or any moment it's advisable you make a comprehensive notes, type it on MSword print it out and hand them over to the students this will make them value the knowledge you are impacting on them.

Op, it's always great introducing the concept of Bitcoin to new individuals whether it is I'm school or church place, or market place as long as they get what you're saying then the location doesn't really matter.
But aside from tell them what Bitcoin is, aside from telling them about the decentralization of Bitcoin, you should also try to teach them about how to keep their Bitcoin safe, how to make a Bitcoin transaction ( if possible show them some them live examples for better understanding) and also teach them about privacy (which I don't think you know very well judging from the type of pictures you used in Op) and when you're done with your lessons you can then introduce those who would want to learn further to this forum for them to continue their learning process. Because most newbies like them tend to fall for scams easily.

I really appreciate that a number of people in this forum are more and more teaching Bitcoin to the public. And many of them are from Nigeria. Awareness of Bitcoin does need to grow. Regardless, later they will be interested in investing or using Bitcoin or not, but at least they know there will be Bitcoin. And this applies to anyone and anywhere. This may ahve some obstacles, but if we can affford and do it, this will be much precious.

that's true, there are many ways now how to hand a note or hold a lecture to this generation. though we don't know how they are digitally equip when it comes to teaching in their area. but hard to relay info if it is all manual writing. there will come a time that you need to make a demo on basics like how to create a wallet, how to make first btc transaction and so on. but we always appreciate this kind of initiative even if it is not included in their curriculum.

Yeah, I think a fellow already done something very great by carrying it out practically with his students as well. He showed students how the first transaction was like and even showing them how the wallets operates as well.
So that efforts was so much appreciated and if he could also adopt to that method it would looks more practical compared to just write on a plain board or blackboard.

First, we should know what OP was teaching to his students to make sure it was the right information he's telling to the class. Everything can be learned through the internet nowadays but with their situation perhaps they are having a hard time to learn more about Bitcoin on the internet. A basic infographic can help them to understand instead of reading all of them this might be hard for them to understand if it's all about letters. I agree with your idea that they should learn the basic economic too since this will help them to understand why Bitcoin price moves a lot.

You have done really well by teaching the students about bitcoin, it is a good initiative and one that is well appreciated by the community, this is a kind of catch them young program, it good that our children will begin learning about bitcoin and it's benefits from their tender age so that when they grow up, understanding what it is and how it works won't be a big problem to them.

And again also, if I was the teacher, I would not tell the students not to get involved in bitcoin for now.
This students, there are many of them that have more money than you can ever imagine, if any one of them want to get involved in bitcoin, and can afford every bit of it, why not, I will teach the student how to get in, that will help them stay ahead of their pairs.

One of the very advantages of bitcoin is staying private and by that I mean, being anonymous to most and only bee known by a few of which, you just might hand pick. Am saying this not because of the students your teaching out there but with respect to the lots of Internet users that might access this post and just get to pick the face.
What most users do is to blurr there face or make it not an easy to recognise somehow. Perhaps you don't wish to be anonymous and that's on you.

It's a nice move and a board one to take bitcoin for a class.  Hope you did justice to the points you chose to enlighten them kids on. Keep preaching when motivated mate and be cool.

wow! I am shocked that you are giving children lesson about bitcoin! Though you have stated them as high school students and claim that they will be adults in 2 or 3 years. I am shocked that you think primary level children can grow adult in 2-3 years and make financial decisions. As I can see them in your picture, they look like primary kids.

If they are high school students and will grown up in 2-3 years than I appreciate your efforts to educate them about the digital currency. Otherwise I stick with my statement above.

But I feel like that what can we expect on high school students? I think it's normal for them to not know Bitcoin because they are busy with their lifestyle. You know, going to school, doing homeworks. If they have some time left, they will probably use it to entertain themselves by playing video games or browsing social media sites. They aren't like to us adults who are now looking forward on ways to improve our life and that is we came across Bitcoin.

Still, OP is doing a good job there and it's great that most of them are interested about it. For now maybe they should try to save Bitcoin or make it as an investment because this is more on a passive side and it's also easy to do than any other Bitcoin activities.

Great! Just as this is a great idea (if taught well), I believe it can be risky too. It's very crucial that you were careful with how you portrayed it to them. Wrongly Introducing kids with the concept of Bitcoin could give them the impression that it's a safe or easy way to make money, which isn't necessarily true. They can also choose to dive in (as they may be young but have a mind of their own), and they can be a target for scammers or fraudsters who might try to convince them to invest in a fraudulent scheme. So yep, you need to make sure that you said it the right way for them to fully understand both its blessings and dangers too.

No hate on what you do OP and as a matter of fact I applaud your act of service, teaching these younglings on how awesome bitcoin is in multiple aspects of the coin. Going back to my statement, I think the primary reason why they have little to no idea of what bitcoin is or cryptocurrency even is because of the fact that you may live in an inopportune area? I don't mean any offense. I doubt the students even get proper internet connection to begin with, let alone the opportunity to learn what bitcoin is in the first place. I do hope that something comes up in your area that would allow for more technological advancement and therefore an opportunity for these kids to learn what bitcoin is on their own. I think it will serve them well in the future if they do, and I give you a massive thumbs up for paving the way for them.

Some people pay so many less attention to privacy and it is mostly because of the country the people held from. It could be that they do not respect privacy but this forum should give them idea of privacy and they become smart. This forum teaches many things and who ever that is a member of this forum should learn many things apart from cryptocurrency because this is a great forum.

Great work op, I love seeing people sharing knowledge to others especially to young generations when it is term of Bitcoin blockchain. Seriously this is a great contribution to the development of Bitcoin adoption, because I know some those students will talk about Bitcoin to their parents and elder once when they get home and from there who are interested will surely do more research about it, and for the students it will seriously help in future. I will also like to have this kind of opportunity to also impact knowledge to other too.

Op, I see that you did not mention those topic you treated with the students, it will make more senses if Forum can see does topics you treated incase of any advise they are willing to give you. I hope you are just giving them the basic knowledge about the blockchain for now.

Nice work at OP, I see you have large audience, I hope you have done a good research and preparation so that you can relay to the students what really Bitcoin is in a way they can easily understand.  I also hope that you tackle the economic aspect of Bitcoin and had warned all the students about the risk involved in cryptocurrency.

You should also tackle how important to consider the country's regulation toward Bitcoin and its transaction.

Great job op, this is a good initiatives by bringing the knowledge of bitcoin and blockchain to your locality this is called "grass roots impartations or development" meaning they are being inculcated early to the digital worlds and believing they will have the knowledge indepthly while they grow and know how to make decision on concerning their financial status.
Please try to be more practical with the subject I think they would learn very faster while learning.

That is really a great work from OP. Not everyone take initiative, even when we have time and the knowledge to teach. Another important thing, these are the upcoming users of cryptocurrency. As said educating the grass roots make the network even stronger. Just came across a thread where random people were questioned of Bitcoin or $100, and the response is $100. These kind of education will change the preference among those people.

Imparting knowledge means responsibility of the information being transferrer to another people. If you'd be biased, then there is a high tendency for you to put that people you are trying to help, on danger. It should not always the positive things you need to emphasize but also the negative to prepare and for that certain individual to manage their expectations. Since it is knowledge on bitcoin which is being shared, emphasize the risk of engaging into it. People might get their hopes up because of the profit potential but never instill to them that it would be easy to do so. This is to let them know as well that there's no such thing as an easy way to be rich, which is a misconception in this industry.

Yeah same as well, I was disappointed seeing that those young teenager doesn't have any sound knowledge about what is called bitcoin which led them to quickly make a pick of 100$ instead of bitcoin. I believe this kind of class would go a long way to help educate the young teenagers, if only we all could do something like this I believe there would have been a wide spread of bitcoin across the globe.

I would have loved to know the guidelines you used in teaching them about bitcoin, the age range of the kids, and if you tested or will test their knowledge of bitcoin in your next session with them. The bitcoin and cryptocurrency ecosystem is so vast that introducing children to it cannot go wrong. It serves as the foundation for learning about
how the economy works, personal finance, and others. The caveat here is to take it slowly, teach them at their pace and according to their age. Teach them about the pros and cons and the risks associated with each.

Any school principal that's digitally inclined will otherwise give himself to knowing and having a good knowledge of what digital subject is been thought to his students before   jumping into concluding if it's wrong or not but I know that no digitally exposed principal in this 21stC will deny his students such free opportunity of a one day lecture just because it isn't yet in schools syllabus. It can be classified as extra morals. I just hope someday the Nigerian government understands what they are missing on bitcoin.

I have understood that you gave them basic knowledge about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, some of your students made some questions after the class. But did you get any feedback after? Did students asked for more classes? Did they plan or already created their first wallets? Started reading crypto info by themselves? Or the information during that class was like "in and out", means they sit in that class because they had to?

P.S. Damn, it is so hard to recognize what you have written from if sitting on last desks. From that pictures, I have only managed to recognize "impact of Bitcoin" from what is written on the board.