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RE: 7 - #itb8 Teaching cryptocurrencies in school
Teaching kids about crypto is a tough task. One that you need to be careful about as well as it is beyond the spectrum of the curriculum and parents could potentially react negatively to this. I do think that there needs to be a shist at some point and that students will need to learn more about alternate currencies but crypto is not yet mainstream enough for this to be taught in the classroom.
thank you for your comment.
Actually, the frame-curriculum of Berlin (Rahmenlehrplan Berlin Brandenburg) has a part with the title "Living In And With Cross-Linked Systems (Leben in und mit vernetzten Systemen, Seite 24). Crypto-currencies are not mentioned by name but the description fits in my opinion well enough. So I am ready for the discussion with parents. By the way, everybody speaks about the meaning of information technology but parents usually do not come to speak to me - even if the grades of their children are low.
The curriculum is available in German only, because it is internationally irrelevant as it is only written for Berlin and another German federal state (Brandenburg). As most steemians propably are not speaking Germany, I plan to write about the curricula for Informatic and Chemistry, the two subjects I am teaching.
I still have more than 20 topics open for my "Informaition Technology Basics for 8th-Graders"-series
(#itb8) and actually I have already planed the next series about teaching chemistry but would you like me to follow #itb8 directly up with a series about the Berlin frame curricula?