Topic: SUCCESS! The First Grade School Bitcoin Project! - page 2. (Read 5684 times)

Maybe you guys aren't parents, or haven't been paying attention to the news lately, but recording kids is an order of magnitute more lethal than recording police officers in public or public buildings. Sorry, but unfortunately, that's pretty much not going to happen.

next time you do something like that please record the audio - especially of the questions would love to hear it..

Nice blocky blur, looks like their faces are mush too.

Guys... I cannot express that a huge smashing success this presentation was. It knocked my socks off..



The kids had so many questions... Three really kinda shocked me... (paraphrasing..)

#1: When you send Bitcoins around the world, do they go up through a satellite and back down the other side?

I stumbled on this one for a little bit because I wasn't prepared to teach 4th graders about asymmetric eliptical curve cryptogaphy and message hashing. LOL.. They put me on the spot, so I dont recall exactly how I answered. Something about the Bitcoins dont really "go" anywhere, you're just using cryptographic keys to sign off amounts everyone knows you have. Sigh.

#2: What happens if you don't want a Bitcoin address anymore? Can you just delete it?

Wow. Um, well you can forget it exists and never use it again... I somehow got into the example of being able to create thousands of keys at a time and delete those and a little about how it relates to being anonymous.

#3: Can you make Bitcoin addresses anything you want (besides those long ugly strings)?

I told them about VanityGen and being able to specify a string of text you want in your keys when you create them.

There were so many more really awesome questions, but it's all a blur now.

But the bottom line, I think I've found a new passtime and audience. The teacher was equally impressed and I'm positive this will get around to the rest of the faculty and I'll be invited back to do it with other classes from 4th through 12th.

Getting bombarded with all these questions from little skulls full of mush was an outrageously exciting experience. MOAARRR!!

We must of been raised differently I wanted an AK  

Probably Silk Road.

Sheesh are you the coolest mofo around or what?  Inspiring 

Just curious, what do they spend their bitcoins on?

When I was in 4th grade, I wanted things like foam airplanes, and candybars. 

ah. me stupid.

Anything you can do in a google search, you can do in a google alert... so add "site:bitcointalk.org" and you should be good to go.

not. Can't narrow it down to the forum, can I?

But more on topic: I could imagine kids trading their bitcoins like they traded stickers. Especially in countries where they all have smart phones. I love the idea

http://www.google.com/alerts

does this forum support buzz-word-alerts? how do i set them up?

Thank you sir!!!

You'll see it show up on the operating expense report at the end of this month.

I merely suggested it, but I think I have created a monster.. you should hear them complain when they have to spend them low and receive them high. Often I (jokingly) threaten to take their Bitcoins away if they don't get As and Bs or something and they start screaming NOOOOoooo lol

Good stuff!

Bitcoins for allowance = awesome parenting!

2.5BTC sent.

Cheers.

Thank you! I'll make the corrections and suggestions. I threw this flier together very quickly for the teacher when she stated she needed to get parent attendance permission before Friday. I will call upon the Bitcoin hive mind when we do this again for the next class.

Oh, and the only reason I'm doing this for 4th graders is because my kid "gets it" and prefers them over fiat for their allowance. I totally expect this to go over much better with higher grades.

..."so nobody can spent it without your permission."

^^ Just something I caught that you might want to fix.
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My honest critique:  I think this flyer would be suitable for middle-school level, but it's going to be a lot for 4th graders.  Skimming through this, these are some words for which I think a nice explanation (perhaps using easy examples?) would be helpful for the kids:

1)  "pre-defined" mathematical rules (possible examples of a mathematical rule might be lining up from tallest to shortest)
2)  "'open source software"  (example:  you share your work in front of the class so you can get feedback on it)
3)  "true global democratic majority"  (Example:  voting in class for an activity by raising their hand)
4)  "encrypt"  (Example:  secret codes...maybe pig latin vs. English)
5)  "client"  (something or someone that works for someone else...the Bitcoin program works for them)

Totally... I'm probably going to have to save that for the high school edition though

I hope this is inspiring others here to do this with their kids/school.

Network Effect, Gentlemen!