I have a plan of teaching college students in my neighborhood Bitcoin

[Josefjix]

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.

[jossiel]

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.

[asu]

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.

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.

[Yamifoud]

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.

[McToots]

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

[harizen]

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.

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.

[Charles-Tim]

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.

[Pmalek]

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.   

[TalkStar]

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.

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.  

[plvbob0070]

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.

[LbtalkL]

That's great, All teachers and schools should do the same. In my time we don't have general and career opportunities subject 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

[sujonali1819]

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. 

[sheenshane]

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!

[fortunecrypto]

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.

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.

[Rengga Jati]

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.

[Coyster]

I made a lesson plan yesterday and I would be teaching final year students approaching graduation in my neighborhood

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".

[Swordsoffreedom]

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

[Asuspawer09]

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.

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.

[ReiMomo]

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.

[Josefjix]

I made a lesson plan yesterday and I would be teaching final year students approaching graduation in my neighborhood

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".

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.