Topic: My class had their first practical Bitcoin exercise - page 3. (Read 482 times)
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.
A few months ago, I made this post here. And after reading all of the suggestions, this is what my class did on the last week before the Salah break.
I teach a class of forty students. To begin the class, I needed a projector, 10 computers and my personal computer to use as an example. I had to rent the computers for the day, that morning I downloaded Electrum wallet ( because it's my favorite) on all of the laptops and made sure the program ran smoothly on the PCs.
All Good!!!
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.
The instructions for the exercise were as follows:
1. Create a personal wallet on Electrum
2. Write down your private keys
3. Each student is to decide how best to store their private keys
4. Sign/Verify a message with their address
Observations
The students were impressive, the exercise didn't take them long to complete. Some of my students who had taken a strong interest in bitcoin before the lesson were already familiar with Bitcoin wallets and had a very easy time using electrum. I observe they were not very secretive with your private keys - a point I will emphasize more on in our next class. Electrum wallet seem boring or should I say less colorful for them. I could see they enjoyed signing a message with their address, they had the same expression as when they first did "Hello world!" program on fortran.
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.
I teach a class of forty students. To begin the class, I needed a projector, 10 computers and my personal computer to use as an example. I had to rent the computers for the day, that morning I downloaded Electrum wallet ( because it's my favorite) on all of the laptops and made sure the program ran smoothly on the PCs.
All Good!!!
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.
The instructions for the exercise were as follows:
1. Create a personal wallet on Electrum
2. Write down your private keys
3. Each student is to decide how best to store their private keys
4. Sign/Verify a message with their address
Observations
The students were impressive, the exercise didn't take them long to complete. Some of my students who had taken a strong interest in bitcoin before the lesson were already familiar with Bitcoin wallets and had a very easy time using electrum. I observe they were not very secretive with your private keys - a point I will emphasize more on in our next class. Electrum wallet seem boring or should I say less colorful for them. I could see they enjoyed signing a message with their address, they had the same expression as when they first did "Hello world!" program on fortran.
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.
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