Will
Bitcoin Change How Kids Learn to Count?
The
article “Will Bitcoin Change How Kids Learn to Count?” introduces a new concept
on how students may learn to count in the future. The article emphasizes that
children have always used currency to learn to count, and they question whether
or not a new digital currency will impact that current style of learning. The
article expresses concerns about current and future technology impacting how
children learn. However, the article also
talks about the positive side of current and future technology and how
it is impacting the educational setting. They use examples that support these concerns.
The largest question that is presented in the article is ”how will we connect
the digital with the physical?”
Before
reading this article I had never heard of the digital currency Bitcoin. As a
child I can remember my mother and teachers using coins and dollars to help me
learn to count. Coins and dollars also taught me the meaning behind money and how to pay for things. Even as an adult the idea of a digital currency
is, in many ways, almost too abstract for me to understand. The idea of Bitcoin
seems like a real possibility in the future, but I have huge concerns about this
technology and some others. In the future, even now, teachers have to find ways
to connect the digital with the physical world. If this connection can’t be
made, children do not grasp the concept. Evidence shows that children learn best
when they are allowed to explore, use their senses, and physical world to learn
on their own and at their own pace. In the future if we rely on the “digital
world,” the basic sense of learning could be lost.
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