Bitcoin Class in my Village High School

[buwaytress]

Nice going OP! This isn't the first time I've seen or read about such an effort, and in fact all of them so far shared on this forum has been done all came from Africa, I feel like there must be other efforts from other parts of the world not shared.

I do agree with other comments that some of the material is inaccurate, but I would even suggest that you simplify things even more for 15-year olds and sacrifice accuracy for simplicity. In this sense I also think better to be less pedant.

For example, in my opinion, for children, you can just refer to Satoshi as a singular person (even if it's not proven).
Another example, just say Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency (even if technically it wasn't). Or at least say the first crypto to gain prominence.

And yeah I wouldn't go into extended economics, instead, maybe teach basic economics first or talk about Bitcoin as part of a lesson on the history of money.

[KingsDen]

Very nice initiative. I admire the bold step by you Agbe. The students would be very much happy for learning new things. They might be bored of learning same thing every time. That is the reason for their eagerliness.

In as much as I love what Op has put together. I have two concerns;

1. The age of people being taught. I have always said that I don't belong to the school of taught of teaching children about Bitcoin. Even if the ones about 15 years are to be taught, it shouldn't involve the investment aspect of bitcoin. This is because they are not aged enough to take responsibility of their investment decisions when it goes bad.
If they are excited about the bitcoin profits, some will tend to use their school fees for investment, and we already know how bad it is. So, there is time for everything, when they are at the age, they will learn.

2. Op, please ensure that you are teaching them only the correct things about Bitcoin. Bitcoin is dynamic, and what you may think is the right thing might not be. It is always difficult when the wrong foundation is laid, it will surely affect them in the future when they understand that there are some contradictions. My stake is that you should teach only what you are 100% sure.
Thanks for your efforts.

[KennyR]

An appreciable effort. Many people want to do this and there were many willing to do this. Very few take initiative and make the plan come to reality. In such a way what OP has done is big. Educating people is much important for the wide spread of bitcoin usage in real-time. The step taken by OP seems to benefit a large community. Many users have corrected OP about some mistakes, and this will help him to improve his knowledge along with the students.

[MrcMrc]

This is a good initiative and I applaud you for this, what I worry about is the privacy of the pupil whose pictures are displayed you may do well to blind ink the faces of the pupil in your next presentation, am hoping to read more from you soon. But in the main time you have done an excellent job on this teaching young pupils about finance and blockchain is a very good starting point and hoping the pupils appreciate your efforts by paying attention to this teaching and gaining priceless knowledge on cryptocurrency.

[Bitstar_coin]

A very nice gesture i must say, the earlier btc teaching is introduced to schools the better for young pupils to get to know it and develop interest on it. You will be surprise the number of young pupils that will be very interested, unlike most of us that found btc at a rather grown-up age, these young pupils have the best opportunity to learn more about btc and build a career from it if they want to. Good job to the @op for this very important initiative.

[harapan]

Teaching what you don't know bis also a very good learn about it. It's such a great effort put innit. It shows they are 15 and above, I don't see anything bad praticalizing the use of Bitcoin and how to perform peer to peer transfer and transactions.
You can search in for the white paper of Satoshi and five them to read, also Satoshi Nakamoto founded Bitcoin and not a team of programmer's. Take a good look at your information very well. Kudos for the Effort once again.

[Agbe]

Always nice to see things like this, however I'm curious if this was a compulsory class or is this something that's optional? I'm glad to hear they responded well to it. I'm just not completely sold on the idea of teaching Bitcoin to children quite yet. Honestly, that might just be because our culture here, they probably wouldn't benefit from it, but I suppose in certain other cultures, Bitcoin is actually becoming pretty much something they'll encounter on the daily. So, I'll admit it might be the culture gap.

I'm not bashing the idea, I love it that there's people out there doing this sort of stuff, and I know in my teenager years I would've been absolutely loving a class like this. However, for any younger children I don't think teaching them quite yet what Bitcoin is, and what it can be used for will be that useful. Although, I tend to think we teach the concept of money too early to children anyway.

I am sorry for the late respond. But because of the activities and the leisure time with my family members for the weekend delayed the respond. Base on the curiosity of knowing if the class is compulsory or optional. Yes the class is compulsory in the high school only but not in the ministry of education. The principal in the high school said, since there is no white-collar (government) jobs in the country after the graduation of the students, they should learn trading, Investment very seriously and become entraupreneures in their future.

Also concerning the culture of a particular region. Yes that also affect the implementation of a course but you can carry out the task if the zeal is with you. Just like the Holy Bible, Jesus encourage all believers to go and preach the Bible to everyone not only to adult or the rich but to also to the young and the poor. Therefore, you as a believer of bitcoin you have to a bold step to go out and teach students about bitcoin. Because the world is not like before again. The leaders deceived us that we are the leaders of tomorrow and till now those leaders are still there in those positions so when are we going to occupy those positions? It is unknown. So we have to teach our generational Children to divert their attentions to trading, Investment and entraupreneures skills.

Finally
I am even planning to carry out a campaign in the village to give awareness and bring more people to the crypto space. And also, thanks you very much for encouraging me always.

[ChrisPop]

"Teach them young" comes on the tip of my tongue 
Congrats for the initiative, man! It is so important for people to comprehend the concepts behind Bitcoin while they are young and full of enthusiasm. The fundamental changes in society will be lead by the young ones and our future as a race depends on them doing the right thing.

Really noble, but don't forget that you bear a big responsibility!

[virasog]

Very nice initiative. I admire the bold step by you Agbe. The students would be very much happy for learning new things. They might be bored of learning same thing every time. That is the reason for their eagerliness.

Although i have read many posts that bitcoin is being taught at the school level but this is the first time i have actually witnessed a school where students are being taught about bitcoin and the blackboard contains the information about bitcoin. This is indeed a big transformation and steps towards the adoption of digital currency. This may give inspiration to other teachers who are reading this post and they may also try to include bitcoin topics in their syllabus.

[AakZaki]

Glad to hear your story, hope it's an ongoing part of the introduction and not only the introduction of bitcoin is a place for profit but bitcoin is a technology that can be adopted. Maybe if in my country, there is no such thing. High school may still be too early, even high school I think there is no lesson regarding bitcoin crypto. Maybe at the current college level there is but it's rare. Even though the government understands and knows, it seems that in my country crypto blockchain still seems to be seen as gambling or fraud. In addition, human resources for now, can not accept it. My country is still in the era of ushering in a new era for governance. Because I believe that people who are old today in my country are far from technology.

[CryptoHeadlineNews]

Youths are the future leaders of tomorrow, and Bitcoin is one currency which has come to stay, so educating the young ones now about Bitcoin, blockchain and everything regarding cryptocurrency is the best gift we as individuals and members of the bitcointalk forum can offer for the betterment of this project. Because I ones had my teaching with my students and it gave me an insight, that regarding the fact that Bitcoin has been around all this while, there were some hearing the word "Bitcoin" for there very first time that fateful day. So I am very much happy that you actually did throw some light about Bitcoin in your community, which if everyone on this forum could do that, the future of Bitcoin will be bright and better.

[Smartvirus]

~snipe~

I just saw a similar thread Teaching college students about bitcoin a while back and that seems to have been published on the forum days before yours came through. I wonder if this is what we are to be expecting these days!
Also, you might want to readjust your photos as it's way too ambiguous as you have it and don't make for a proper appreciation of your literary piece. You can reference the similar thread as at above for guides on the placement. Perhaps quote and edit as need be.

It's a nice initiative though, to ensure the younger generation gets a bit of the truth on cryptocurrencies before the government and anticrypto individuals and organisations feed them with FUD. Foundations such as this could help them to be more aware and prepare themselves for the future ahead but, I hope it doesn't divert there focus of there curriculum though.

[Agbe]

~snipe~

I just saw a similar thread Teaching college students about bitcoin a while back and that seems to have been published on the forum days before yours came through. I wonder if this is what we are to be expecting these days!
Also, you might want to readjust your photos as it's way too ambiguous as you have it and don't make for a proper appreciation of your literary piece. You can reference the similar thread as at above for guides on the placement. Perhaps quote and edit as need be.

I believe that is the practical aspect of the forum and which most be encouraged. If everyone can take the bold step to do what I have am doing. I believe the primitivity, ignorant and scam rate will be drastically reduced. As you also the total number of newbies that were Scammed daily basses? One of the main reason of this forum is to educate so now we are doing to the maximum level by taking to the door steps of classroom and you are saying, is it only these threads we are to see these days? Are you against the well-being of the forum? I hope you have created this kind of thread. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5324742.msg56593829#msg56593829

If we are to see these threads these days, that means the forum is really doing it job very well. So users should go out and educate the young ones, the youth, and the adult plus the market people.

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Always nice to see things like this, however I'm curious if this was a compulsory class or is this something that's optional? I'm glad to hear they responded well to it. I'm just not completely sold on the idea of teaching Bitcoin to children quite yet. Honestly, that might just be because our culture here, they probably wouldn't benefit from it, but I suppose in certain other cultures, Bitcoin is actually becoming pretty much something they'll encounter on the daily. So, I'll admit it might be the culture gap.

I'm not bashing the idea, I love it that there's people out there doing this sort of stuff, and I know in my teenager years I would've been absolutely loving a class like this. However, for any younger children I don't think teaching them quite yet what Bitcoin is, and what it can be used for will be that useful. Although, I tend to think we teach the concept of money too early to children anyway.

[KingsDen]

Very nice initiative. I admire the bold step by you Agbe. The students would be very much happy for learning new things. They might be bored of learning same thing every time. That is the reason for their eagerliness.

Although i have read many posts that bitcoin is being taught at the school level but this is the first time i have actually witnessed a school where students are being taught about bitcoin and the blackboard contains the information about bitcoin. This is indeed a big transformation and steps towards the adoption of digital currency. This may give inspiration to other teachers who are reading this post and they may also try to include bitcoin topics in their syllabus.

Indeed, I'm really glad that they took the first step and now they are being taught how bitcoin works and other ideas. i just wish they could also teach how can a person secure his funds, make deposits, avoid scams and other things that will lose his fund, many people usually skip this steps and it leads them to unfortunate things because they didn't know how.

Yes, lately I have stumbled on such post that bitcoin is being taught by maybe private individuals or corporate bodies. But one thing about those organising it is that majority of them front bitcoin academy while using the people to promote their personal projects. 

Well it is not so bad in as much as bitcoin is mentioned. But most times it doesn't go well because the newbies would be asked to bring money, while making them to believe they are buying bitcoin will end up with one shitty project and in the end they will blame bitcoin for their woes.
Most of the affected newbies never return and which gives bitcoin the bad name. But a few returns to discover the real bitcoin and its principles.
So, it takes 10 among 1000 who genuinely teaches bitcoin without personal gains attached to it.

[Retiicle]

This is really amazing. I also read on one of the news websites about cryptos being taught in high schools.

[Agbe]

_i just wish they could also teach how can a person secure his funds, make deposits, avoid scams and other things that will lose his fund, many people usually skip this steps and it leads them to unfortunate things because they didn't know how.

Learning has a procedure and steps. The first step in any topic is the introduction of the concept before any other thing. If I teach them how to secure the wallet without teach them what is wallet and how it work, I have against the principles of teaching. So please I will teach them the steps from the national curriculum of education. I am planning to teach them every I know about bitcoin. And I very happy that, after the first class, students even came to my house for extral moral lesson to know more. Most of them came to ask questions on bitcoin and I explained to them.

And for those who were saying that I will exploit the students. From the OP I made mention of a school, where the topic was introduced. Which means it's not my tutorial or lesson class. It is a formal school, not informal school. Whereby I am doing it as a voluntary service.

[BobK71]

This is good. But I'm quite interested to know how Bitcoin came into the subject. It seems it came out of nowhere. It might help if it is included in the subject in such a way that students know where it is coming from. The technology of Bitcoin might have more impact on them; they'll probably appreciate it more if it is put into a context.

It seems to me that this has come naturally as they are discussing the stock market as it is related with the economics. So maybe today this subject has been included in the class for the sake of their understanding. However, I am very positive here that someone is trying to spread Bitcoin among everyone. Such activities will be very effective in the development of Bitcoin.

[abel1337]

_i just wish they could also teach how can a person secure his funds, make deposits, avoid scams and other things that will lose his fund, many people usually skip this steps and it leads them to unfortunate things because they didn't know how.

Learning has a procedure and steps. The first step in any topic is the introduction of the concept before any other thing. If I teach them how to secure the wallet without teach them what is wallet and how it work, I have against the principles of teaching. So please I will teach them the steps from the national curriculum of education. I am planning to teach them every I know about bitcoin. And I very happy that, after the first class, students even came to my house for extral moral lesson to know more. Most of them came to ask questions on bitcoin and I explained to them.

And for those who were saying that I will exploit the students. From the OP I made mention of a school, where the topic was introduced. Which means it's not my tutorial or lesson class. It is a formal school, not informal school. Whereby I am doing it as a voluntary service.

You really did a good job. It's good that you are doing a proper order in your lessons, Teaching it all and going straight on how use it without understanding the fundamentals will not have a great impact on your students. It's the fundamentals that is important, They can learn how to do creating wallets, avoiding scams and doing deposits on their own especially that not every platforms/application  has the same methods.

It's nice to see this kind of initiative every now and then.

[darkv0rt3x]

@Agbe, a few questions I woul like to ask:

1 - Are you a graduated teacher or how were you accepted to teach in a class?

2 - What country was that?

3 - How did you come up with the classes schedule/agenda for each day? Like, how did you come up with the line up of subjects?

4 - How the school managed to include your class in the current classes? I mean, where did the class that was lectured at that time, went? Did they moved the classes or they were simply removed from the schedule?

By the way, great job. I think that is not possible in other countries where school classes have tight schedules/agendas, subjects that must be lectured and everything is timed so that the annual agenda is fullfiled and the school program is completed by the end of the schoolar year. Also, the schools principals/directors probably wouldn't agree with such initiative because I think such initiative would have to be approved by governemnts, pass the filter of regulations, etc, etc, etc, if you know what I mean!

[Agbe]

@Agbe, a few questions I woul like to ask:

1 - Are you a graduated teacher or how were you accepted to teach in a class?

2 - What country was that?

3 - How did you come up with the classes schedule/agenda for each day? Like, how did you come up with the line up of subjects?

4 - How the school managed to include your class in the current classes? I mean, where did the class that was lectured at that time, went? Did they moved the classes or they were simply removed from the schedule?

By the way, great job. I think that is not possible in other countries where school classes have tight schedules/agendas, subjects that must be lectured and everything is timed so that the annual agenda is fullfiled and the school program is completed by the end of the schoolar year. Also, the schools principals/directors probably wouldn't agree with such initiative because I think such initiative would have to be approved by governemnts, pass the filter of regulations, etc, etc, etc, if you know what I mean!

First of all thank you very much for your encouragement and questions. As for the first question, yes I am a graduate teacher. I am a professional teacher in the school. I just finished my national service program. And since there is no government job in the country, I went to the school and teach them as a free service from me but the principal said he is going to give me small thing from his pocket every month.

2. Please I am really sorry. The forum is anonymous so it's users are also anonymous. But the country is from Africa.

3. Yes the question three was a big issue but it has been resolved. The time table of the subjects were rearranged and the free periods were also utilized.

4. I believed the question four has been answered in question three but a part is still left. The classes are taking place in the classrooms as it is shown from the images.

Once again thank you very much for your encouragement.