Ukrainian pedagogue, teacher of the highest category, Yulia Zubareva believes that the lessons of financial literacy should be an integral part of the school curriculum, starting from grade 7-8. In addition, Zubarev has already developed a number of programmes. Moreover, according to the teacher, at this age, children can explain the principles of operation as Fiat and cryptocurrency.
Unfortunately, until about cryptocurrency will be told in schools, is still quite far away and we have to come up with a simple explanation by. Quite an original explanation of the principle of cryptocurrency was published in far 2014 the blog of Gregory Bakunov:
"Imagine a room in which there is access to everyone. In the room the camera is installed, which can be seen online by anyone and also available in an online archive for TimeShift. The floor is littered with indestructible, transparent pig-piggy banks. Virtually every piggy Bank has a slot for coins, and anyone can see which coins are in the piggy Bank. Bottom pig has a castle, which is open, you can get stored inside the coins, and it's the only way you get them out. Yeah, it is important that the piggy can't leave the room, and each person has the key to his pigs. Now let's imagine that I want to buy wool socks, and you want to sell them.
First you tell me which piggy Bank is yours. I wear a ski mask so I wouldn't be recognized and enter the room. All the world can see me through the camera, but can't identify me because you can't see my face. I open his piggy Bank, took out some coins and put them in your piggy Bank closed. Immediately after that I leave the room.
Now all the world know that your piggy Bank is a coin, which previously lay in my piggy Bank. This happens with each transaction, so that all can trace the history of each coin."
Further, the author proposes to consider some important questions and answers, which are made as simple as possible, especially for children.
"Where are the coins? How it all started? Who got the first coin?"
In the room there is a robot that holds a lottery. Not very often, the robot randomly selects one mumps, and puts 50 coins. When it all started, the room was very small piggy banks, because few people knew about it. In General, it was fairly easy to win. Now, when the room millions of piggy banks, your chances are slim.
"Can I create my own fake coins?"
No, because we have videos of what is happening. So anyone can see if the new coin was thrown by a person and not a robot.
"Who has created a robot..?"
It is believed that this was a genius Japanese man named Satoshi Nakamoto, but really nobody knows. If you rewind the camera at the beginning of the recording, you can see how the robot puts the first coin in someone's piggy Bank. We mean that it is a Treasury of Satoshi, but that's all we know.”
Another attempt to explain what is bitcoin in easy way, made three small resident of the Netherlands Juju (JuJu), Gigi (GiGi) and Jojo (JoJo) Sabra. At the time they became famous book "What is STEM" and in 2013 wrote a trilogy called "Bitcoin for kids".
Older sister Juju was the unofficial leader of the group, and conducted many interviews with representatives of the cryptocurrency community, including employees of companies like Coingig, LetsTalkBitcoin and BitPay. Middle sister Gigi researched all available literature on bitcoin, blogs and news sources, and the youngest of the sisters Jojo was engaged in the design and editing of books.
The book "Bitcoin for kids" written in the first person and accompanied by colorful illustrations. After the release of the dealership contracts with the sisters signed a trading platform such as Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble Nook Book.
And those children who already know what is bitcoin, to consolidate knowledge will help digital bitcoin piggy Ernit. This toy was developed by a group of Danish enthusiasts, received $15 million in the form of a grant from the Danish innovation Fund and about $75 thousand from investors.
The piggy Bank has the traditional form of a pig, is connected via the wireless interface with a smartphone and gives children the opportunity to accumulate bitcoins. The application and its use is free, but the piggy Bank is sold separately.
Thus, parents wishing to acquaint their children with cryptocurrencies, there is all to possible. How to use this knowledge and whether this is a subject for another discussion.
