Topic: Am I Doing My Students a Disservice? - page 2. (Read 349 times)

Hello, I have a couple of questions to answer and then I would answer yours.

- First things first. Does the school approve of what you're teaching to your students? Teaching blockchain, smart contracts and Bitcoin are something that even computer science departments in higher education don't do. Curious to kniw the circumstances surrounding your teachings.

- Do your maths students have prior dev experience before going off to learning how to create tokens?

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As for your question, there are plenty of things about Bitcoin (if it's allowed in the school) that doesn't necessarily involve development activities or everyone to have a phone. You can just teach them the theories and concept of bitcoin and open finance. There's more than enough topics to cover.

I'd say it's great, if you know what's really appropriate and age-appropriate for them. The middle class for that age is not the same as the one I described above.
Would it be better if you include the lesson plans based on the unit curriculum? isn't it good for us to review? Usually formal schools have it to determine a learning material under the guidance of a teacher.

If you meet the requirements, why not continue? I really appreciate what you are trying to implement for your students.

firstly, I would say you are doing an impressive job introducing your wards to futuristic technology at a very young age, as that would give them a soft landing when they eventually might want to go deeper later in life. However, their interactions should be somewhat limited considering their age and exposure; like not too much about the financial aspect (speculative) or none at all.

About what bitcoin centered project to engagement them in which would be inclusive; I would suggest an artwork that describes what bitcoin means to them. Everyone would be able to participate as there is no technology barrier and it would make them relate to the network a lot more.

The students are in the 10-12 age group. I do not expect these students to completely internalize what I am teaching them. After all, their favorite part is naming the damn thing. In my country, 6th grade is considered middle school.

If you are a teacher, maybe you know how the theory of developmental psychology of early childhood learning? I don't blame your way of teaching and to be honest for that age isn't it too much to introduce abstract stuff? while children aged 2-12 still need learning that is in accordance with the concrete operational level.
I'm not questioning the amazing material you teach, but I still don't understand how you teach things that are not at the appropriate stage for a child's development?

Your level of understanding adults with those who are still early? aren't you talking 6th grade elementary school kids?

I think it's great that you're providing an opportunity that most won't ever come across, despite those "inferior protocols" you're mentioning. Despite not all students owning mobile devices, or having technological barriers, you'll be showing them something that the majority of teachers won't, you're thinking out of the box, presenting them with knowledge that's hard to come across.

I take my hat off to you, you're doing great, continue being innovative and supporting of your students.

Won't creating your own token and then trying to launch it a good project for them? I think that you're not doing your students a disservice, they're lucky you're their teacher because you're introducing them to other things outside the academia, in my opinion make sure that your project would be something related to the math that you're teaching because at the end, you're still a teacher and it's not your obligation to pursue further in the crypto field for their sake.

To give a little information without completely doxing myself, I am a 6th-grade middle school mathematics teacher. This is my second year in the classroom, and since my very first day, I have had bitcoin strewn all around my room. Hand-drawn logos, ATH date trackers, common boards with paper bitcoins on them. My students are very aware of my admiration for bitcoin.

On the surface, this seems great but I have ran into an issue.

There are a couple of times per year that we are able to have true free days. On these free days, instead of doing more math, we create our own ERC-20 token as a class. They get to see how the smart contracts are written and how they are deployed on the blockchain. I have 6 classes so we end up with 6 new tokens. The students have an absolute blast with this.

My concern is that I am preaching the blessings of bitcoin, yet I'm showing them the "wonders" of inferior protocols. How can I create a classroom project that interacts with the bitcoin ecosystem? Creating an ERC-20 token is simple enough and it's inclusive because all the students need to do is input their opinions as I create the token on the projector. I attempted doing a Lightning Network project where we would pass around small amounts of sats in the classroom using Wallet of Satoshi. I then ran into the issue of not every student having a phone, so this did not work.

So I beg the question; How can I create a class project centered around bitcoins ecosystem that can be inclusive to all students regardless of the technology they may or may not possess?