Back To School With Bitcoin: How To Teach Your Kids About Bitcoin
Here’s what you need for a year of self-sovereign education.Bitcoin can be an important tool for learning about economics and computer science, especially as the broken education system struggles through the COVID-19 pandemic. As Mark Twain once said, “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” Your back-to-school shopping guide should include books about Bitcoin. Luckily, the Bitcoin Magazine store offers all of the books and devices you need for a self-sovereign education, starting with “Bitcoin Money: A Tale Of Bitville Discovering Good Money” for children....
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Last month I attended an interesting Orlando Bitcoin Meetup. The Meetup took place at Bright Learning Academy, a school for special needs students that works with children who need an alternative to traditional school settings. The school takes a technological approach to learning. It's no mystery that kids learn to understand technology much more easily than we do. That's just the way things go. Bright Learning Academy is teaching money management and free market principles with Bitcoin technology. They did it before MIT. Last winter, school teacher Robert Lefebure began signing up....
There is no better way than using games to teach new stuff to kids. Try reading out Satoshi Nakamoto's paper on Bitcoin to a kid and see the reaction. It is not going to work, but still it is essential to teach today's kids about bitcoin and other digital currencies. Minecraft to the rescue! The most popular video game, Minecraft can now be used to teach children about digital currency. A Minecraft game server by the name PlayMC has included bitcoin into its game environment, especially for children. It is not new for Minecraft world to have their own in-game currencies. Some game servers....
As a father, I want to teach my children about money and the wise use of it. My father taught me to be responsible, to save, and to avoid debt as much as possible, and his lessons have served me well. Now I want to pass on those principles to my children, but it gets a little tricky in a world where mainstream financial advisors point in the opposite....
The tools, toys and games available to teach kids about sound money and the Bitcoin network — after all, they’re the ones who will use it. The crypto winter is here. It’s a trying time as prices grind down, but it’s the best moment to build and learn. For some Bitcoiners, the bear market is a time to plant trees or create memes. For those with kids, it’s a welcome recess used to broaden the minds’ of Bitcoin (BTC) minors. Cointelegraph spoke to the creators of popular Bitcoin-related games and educational tools to understand why teaching kids about sound money is critical, and some of the....
The famous Stanford Marshmallow Experiment takes the orange pill during a study of 25 school kids on the Isle of Man. A Bitcoin (BTC) experiment on the Isle of Man involving the Lightning Network, 25 schoolchildren, and a promise of a milkshake has yielded interesting results. At Willaston School on the Isle of Man (a British Crown Dependency nestled between the United Kingdom and Ireland), 25 year-6 students, one teacher and one teaching assistant participated in the light-hearted Bitcoin study. Location of the Isle of Man, including Bitcoin B signs for merchants that accept Bitcoin.....