Quote from: rhomelmabini on July 22, 2019, 01:43:48 PM

Connect with your students on social media for sure that it will be much easier to know who really wants to be your audience. We are the same on the profession but I am not still practicing it as I am in-between if I want to continue it or not. By posting some crypto or blockchain-related content on your social media accounts and if ever there's a growing interest by some of your students on those posts maybe you can encourage them now if they want to dig deep on the technology or not. I advise you to start with just a few participants, stories may spread if it's good or not.

Just a suggestion I guess it will be good if it will not be within the school premises if you teach them why not teach them during weekends. And a fair advise it will be good if you really are that knowledgeable to the technology before teaching them.

Thanks for your advice

Quote from: bitmover on July 22, 2019, 06:17:33 PM

As a teacher for secondary school, you don't need to go deep in the technical.

The best guy around to talk about bitcoin and blockchain, in my opinion, is andreas antonopoulos.

He is a very good speaker and writer, he can explains how this works very well, in a way anyone can understand

Check his youtube channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJWCJCWOxBYSi5DhCieLOLQ

Watch his speeches, and tell what you heard to the kids. Some of them will really like it.

Wonderful, yaa I won't go much deep into technical as I will be aiming to impact them with the basic knowledge first and build there interest, then we will be gradually progressing.

Quote from: Lucius on July 25, 2019, 09:45:17 AM

It is nice to see that thing has already started, and it would be nice that you share some info about your progress in work with students. For me it would be very important to teach students about technology which stands behind Bitcoin, and its practical application in today's society. Most people are today intrigued with bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general just because of possible profit.

Just one more advice regarding posting - you can (and you should use) multi-quote option to reply to other users and not like you did. To do that just pick first post you want to reply and after that scroll down and you will see all posts with Insert Quote option.

Thanks
Sure I will be updating my progress on here, I'm really motivated with the suggestions and support I got on here.
For now I'm compiling the materials, planning of putting it as a handout to be given to the interested students that will be in my class free.

Quote from: Harlot on July 22, 2019, 07:12:55 PM

Before you even plan to go on that route on teaching kids cryptocurrencies I think a much better approach for this is for you to start lessons about financial planning and investing because diving in to the topic about cryptocurrencies would only leave them with more questions than answers. Just think of it this way, if people the same age as ours are having trouble understanding what cryptocurrencies are what more could the clueless kids understand from your lesson? Just my two cents with your current plan.

I understand your point perfectly well, one of the things that motivated me to embark on this personal project was that, I said to myself if I had known or was exposed to the Cryptocurrency and blockchain at the early stage I would have pursued a career in this field. So I don't want them to be ignorant the way I was.

Quote from: maxreish on July 23, 2019, 08:09:28 AM

Though bitcoin or blockchain technology seems complicated especially to those younger minds, I admire your innovation to integrate this kind of technology and how this bitcoin works. If I were just by your side, I will accompany you to teach those secondary students. But i will just teach those who are willing to learn. It is hard to force them to learn something about new technologies like bitcoin.

However, continue your purpose since the Principal allowed you to do the teachings. Just make it a simple, collect some infographic and videos for them to understand it well.

thanks, that would have been great and make the work easier for me.
I'm already compiling a handout for them which will contain infographs and memes for easy and quick understanding.