My class had their first practical Bitcoin exercise

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

Yes some history about Bitcoin and its leading figures would surely be interesting to the
students particularly the mystery of Satoshi and the Bitcoin wallets left abandonned.

Mostly if OP can show them how to make pocket income from signature campaign and can hook them in the forum. Maybe they will then talk to their parents and they will find it interesting. An educated parent can teach their children better than anyone else.

I would prefer to see these kids are growing up with the dream that they will someday work and get paid in crypto or they will have a business to accept payment/service charge in crypto.

Why not introduce them to bitcoin faucets so each of their wallet can have a small amount

The problem about using bitcoin faucet is that it entails some financial or privacy related risk. And I think that it would do more harm than good.

These days faucets are no profitable like it used to be. It's completely a waste of time. They might lose patience.

[2stout]

Educating your students on bitcoin is a wonderful thing and to be commended.  This is a great start to keep them ahead of the curve they may not even know is coming yet.

[Davidvictorson]

The morning of the lesson, I divided the class  into ten groups of four with each group having a laptop each.  The 10 laptops were evenly placed across my classroom.  I had the advantage to do this before the assembly meeting because I had the first period. We began the class with a little revision. We watched Bitcoin Q&A: How Do I Choose a Wallet? by Andreas Antonopoulos on the projector.

We are seeing the "explosion" of knowledge about cryptocurrency and Bitcoin in particular to the younger generations. It will have a ripple effect sooner than later. Don't be surprised that from the group you going to have traders, web developers, technical writers, venture capitalist and many others who would go on to do great things in the crypto space. I am interested in teaching kids and want to know if you plan on using any offline resource(s) during your other classes.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

My only regret is the students didn't have the opportunity to o perform a real transaction with their new Bitcoin wallets. Unfortunately I don't have enough bitcoins to splash for them to practice how to send/receive Bitcoin.

First, I would like to say a big congratulations to you on this initiative once more, it's indeed great how you and your students have progressed since your first post.

My comment is on the part I quoted, i believe you are not going to advice your students to keep this address they created as well as the private keys as them keeping it and using this address in the future might be a big mistake.
Remember you said you rented the computers which you downloaded electrum wallet on and which they (your students) created a bitcoin wallet with, and I believe you are going to return the computers to whoever they owns them, you might think they already know, but please sound it as a warning to them not to use that address for any kind of transaction, just incase any of them saved the private key and the address to make use of in the future, they are newbies and might not understand fully yet, how this thing work.

[aoluain]

Yes some history about Bitcoin and its leading figures would surely be interesting to the
students particularly the mystery of Satoshi and the Bitcoin wallets left abandonned.

Mostly if OP can show them how to make pocket income from signature campaign and can hook them in the forum. Maybe they will then talk to their parents and they will find it interesting. An educated parent can teach their children better than anyone else.

I would prefer to see these kids are growing up with the dream that they will someday work and get paid in crypto or they will have a business to accept payment/service charge in crypto.

Yea I agree, essentially what the OP is doing is planting Bitcoin seeds which will germinate
later on, some wont and some will take longer than others.

Thats all any of us can do when introducing others to Bitcoin.

Maybe thats something for Pokapoka124 to expand on, introduce the parents to Bitcoin also?

[Odusko]

Good move ops and congratulations on your program and haven't taken the bold step to start a crypto education in your locality most especially among young students, I like your teaching technique dividing the students into smaller groups of 10 will reduce the stress and speed the process of learning in them. I will suggest that you make more efforts to get more computers so that the number of students with a computer will reduce.

[Kakmakr]

Well, the obvious next phase in their Bitcoin education is going to be the installation and use of the Lightning Network via Electrum. https://www.electrum.org/talks/lightning/presentation.html#slide1

The advantage of using the Lightning Network over Bitcoin (on-chain) transactions are the reduced cost of the transactions and also the speed of the transactions. 

Well Done..... you are doing a great thing in educating the youth and the future of Bitcoin. 

[Mr.right85]

You might want to revisit the subject of this thread. It came with a little bit of repetition having you say 'My class had' and 'with my class'. Like of you have to read that, you'll see that it's a repetition. Something like,
'My class had there first bitcoin exercise/lesson' or 'My first bitcoin exercise with my class finally kicked off' would sound more better. Its your thread anyway but, am just saying.

We watched Bitcoin Q&A: How Do I Choose a Wallet? by Andreas Antonopoulos on the projector.

On your choice of lesson, is that really important basic? Looking at the fact that, this is there first time getting to learn about cryptocurrency not minding what they must have heard from friends or seen online, I think the approach should have started with a more basic kind of lesson. Like from the historical approach and a better understanding of what bitcoin is. You could maybe adjust your scheme to carry that or support a formate that graduates through levels.

[Mpamaegbu]

OP has become a Bitcoin evangelist. That's cool. I believe he's forever going to leave an indelible mark on those students for the rest of their life, even after he leaves that school. Nothing excites and refreshes like teaching someone what is worthwhile. This is what Bitcoin has become in this century.

Mostly if OP can show them how to make pocket income from signature campaign and can hook them in the forum.

I think it will be too early to bring them here now, given their youthful exuberance they're more likely to get into trouble than more mature minds. The sound and smell of cash excites youths more than grown adults. It can make them go gaga and they throw caution to the wind. This forum has a set of rules that users are compelled to adhere to and I think those youngsters are likely to miss them. Give them some time and they will be ripe to take responsibility, then bring them in here.

[CryptoHeadlineNews]

My only regret is the students didn't have the opportunity to o perform a real transaction with their new Bitcoin wallets. Unfortunately I don't have enough bitcoins to splash for them to practice how to send/receive Bitcoin.

It is really nice you took out time to educate these children on how to create an Electrum wallet and best way to store seed phrase, but I think it would have been best if only you have executed at least one live transaction for them to have seen how to send and receive Bitcoin. So I will be glad if you do that your in your next class

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

I think it will be too early to bring them here now, given their youthful exuberance they're more likely to get into trouble than more mature minds. The sound and smell of cash excites youths more than grown adults. It can make them go gaga and they throw caution to the wind. This forum has a set of rules that users are compelled to adhere to and I think those youngsters are likely to miss them. Give them some time and they will be ripe to take responsibility, then bring them in here.

I did not have 18+ in mind 😉
At least they should know our existence that we have a big community supporting bitcoins and it's network. I think it's time to have an academic guideline for cryptocurrency so that schools, college and university students can make a choice like they make choice if they want to take a subject. Cryptocurrecy should not have to be bitcoin only.

[TheNineClub]

Good job OP, following through on your idea. It's a great start and actually something that's usefull without being too theoretical and unpractical. This is something to inprove upon and if they show interest, they can always get more info or your classes can be expanded.

[virasisog]

My only regret is the students didn't have the opportunity to o perform a real transaction with their new Bitcoin wallets. Unfortunately I don't have enough bitcoins to splash for them to practice how to send/receive Bitcoin.

You have nothing to regret for because you did a great job. The moment you introduce Bitcoin to those young people, you have already planted good knowledge enough for them to be enlightened on how crypto works. It's a great thing that you have initiated teaching them on how to create a wallet and how to keep important private keys in starting things on crypto. I hope you could impart more to them in your next sessions. Kudos to you, Op!

[Mpamaegbu]

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I did not have 18+ in mind 😉
At least they should know our existence that we have a big community supporting bitcoins and it's network.

At the risk of going off topic, let me throw in this last one on that. Those are high school students and in Nigeria (which is OP's nationality) their ages should range from 11 to 17 maximum. 18 for them would be if they didn't enroll into school on time. That age is characterized with youthful exuberance and deliquescence.

However, I quite agree with you on the part of making youngsters become financially independent on time.

[Bobrox]

Applause what did you do how to teach forty students to learn about cryptocurrency specific with bitcoin wallet called electrum, but need continue after teaching them with electrum wallet then they need way how to fill their electrum wallet. Waste time when knowing all detail with bitcoin but do not know about how to invest and get profit with bitcoin, maybe you miss detail about your student background, are all them richest family or not. I think if they are don't have enough money for investing looks waste time how to teach them with bitcoin or cryptocurrency, but you can begin after teaching with electrum wallet and give your student several way how to earn money with internet trough bitcoin or cryptocurrency world.

[teosanru]

This is so good. I think such basic skills should be taught in each and every classroom, even if you decide not to use Bitcoin in future you should still know how to use a wallet. And the best thing was you were taught how to use a private key wallet and find the best wallet and not an exchange where you are not even the owner of your own keys. Such skills along with banking skills as well should be taught in every school for sure.

[Pokapoka124]

Maybe thats something for Pokapoka124 to expand on, introduce the parents to Bitcoin also?

BitcoinGirl.Club made a very good suggestion, it will surely help the students learn faster if their parents are Bitcoin enthusiasts. They will support their kids with whatever they need.  But accomplishing that will not be easy. Parents are usually busy with their jobs, it will be difficult getting them to make out time to learn.

Waste time when knowing all detail with bitcoin but do not know about how to invest and get profit with bitcoin, maybe you miss detail about your student background, are all them richest family or not.

It's not a waste of time. It is too early to start preaching the "you can make money with Bitcoin" sermon, that's the wrong introduction many newbies in the crypto space have, I'm not making that mistake with my student. Bitcoin learning should never start with making profits.

You might want to revisit the subject of this thread.

Thank you for the correction and suggestions.

We watched Bitcoin Q&A: How Do I Choose a Wallet? by Andreas Antonopoulos on the projector.

On your choice of lesson, is that really important basic? Looking at the fact that, this is there first time getting to learn about cryptocurrency not minding what they must have heard from friends or seen online, I think the approach should have started with a more basic kind of lesson. Like from the historical approach and a better understanding of what bitcoin is. You could maybe adjust your scheme to carry that or support a formate that graduates through levels.

The Q&A session by Andreas Antonopoulos was a good way to introduce the class to the task at hand. It was a fine prelude to the subject in my opinion. The history of Bitcoin have been covered in previous classes, those have been theory classes, this is the first time they get to do what they are being taught.

[qwertyup23]

Quite a lot of transformations have happened over time and knowledge about Bitcoin and wallets is needed at an early stage, but also since you did not specify the age level of your students and their grade level we may not see it as necessary for them to make a transaction, giving them the basic knowledge is enough at whatever age so anyone that picks interest may indicate and go further to make a purchase and sending using the electron wallet you thought them.

I do think that exercises like these tend to educate the younger generation- though the topics that were introduced were somehow complex.

I mean, to be honest, I do not even know how to create my own private key, yet these people had the privilege of creating their private key and signing a message! I do also think that opportunities present themselves. These types of exercises, which I frequently see nowadays, are so helpful in the cryptocurrency community that it affects readers like us also.

This somehow gave me the inspiration to take my learnings to the next level. If these people were able to learn and to create their own keys, I think there is no more reason for me not to follow their footsteps. Good job, OP.

[KingsDen]

Congratulations Op on your achievement.

At first it is not easy to control a class of 40, kudos.
Again, you chose to teach them about Bitcoin itself rather than telling them about investment. Continue to teach them you never can tell if the next Satoshi is among your students.

You can consider to introduce them to different types of wallets, so that they will understand that it is not only Electrum that is in existence.

[Christopher Andrews]

This is a really fantastic and bold step. Not many schools and teachers do not bother to update children with new technologies and remain confined to their text book syllabus. I think this is really a good move.