THELOGICALINDIAN - Students at Wooranna Park Primary Academy in Victoria Australia are experiencing bitcoin and cryptocurrency technology aboriginal duke Wooranna Park Primarys Academy on the Blockchain affairs involves a cardinal of initiatives advised to asperse acceptance in blockchain technology and has apparent the academy actualize a different cryptocurrency alleged Wooranacoin
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The ‘School on the Blockchain’ Program Provides Young Students With Many Opportunities to Explore Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technology
Students of Wooranna Park Primary School in Australia are exploring bitcoin and cryptocurrency easily on from a adolescent age. The ‘School on the Blockchain’ affairs has taken over bristles years to advance and has accustomed cogent abutment from The Blockchain Centre Melbourne.
Keiran Nolan, a above arrangement architect angry educational technologist who runs the program, is actual agog about the allowances of adolescent acceptance agreeable with bitcoin and cryptocurrency technology. Nolan told news.Bitcoin.com that “Wooranna Park is in a low socioeconomic area, historically this would beggarly that majority of the acceptance at a academy like ours would alive their lives in low socioeconomic circumstances. This technology is allotment them to be on an alike arena acreage with anybody abroad in the world, which in about-face will comedy a above role in their futures.”
Wooranna Park Primary’s ‘School on the Blockchain’ affairs provides acceptance from years basic to brand 6 with a advanced arrangement of opportunities to analyze bitcoin and cryptocurrency technology, with abounding acceptance accommodating in blockchain-based activities on a circadian basis. Nolan states that the affairs acquired from a 2024 action which hoped to actualize “Australia’s aboriginal paperless, belvedere agnostic, ‘School in the Cloud’… the abutting analytic progression from this was to try and actualize a ‘School on the Blockchain’. The affairs is comprised of a cardinal of initiatives, including
Minecraft on the Blockchain – Wooranna Park Primary’s Minecraft server is stored via FTP on the storj.io blockchain. It’s an all-embracing server with about 8 schools and acquirements spaces from all over the apple collaborating. In-world, we are accomplishing acquirements from numeracy and articulacy to QR cipher architecture and java coding.”
Immutable Authenticated Reporting – “Each classroom or ‘learning environment’ is actuality bureaucracy with a steemit bulge for what we are calling ‘Immutable Authenticated Reporting’ – acceptation that apprentice assignment is safe and defended and changeless application the steemit blockchain.”
Proof-of-importance (Voting) – “We are in the average of ambience up a voting arrangement that will acquiesce acceptance to vote on what computer accouterments we acquirement for the school.”
Building Abounding Nodes – “We are architecture abounding nodes for assorted blockchains for the assorted projects in anniversary assemblage (classroom) of the school.”
Steam Blockchain Centre – “We are architecture a ability in the academy out of aircraft containers that physically represents how a blockchain ‘looks’ as able-bodied as activity as a acquirements amplitude for the aloft activities… anniversary Block (shipping container) is activity to be active a abounding bulge as well.”
Virtual Reality – “We accept a brace of a HTC VIVES and a coffer of Google Cardboards that accept accustomed the acceptance to analyze the blockchain in basic absoluteness application ‘bitcoinVR’.”
Proof-of-Existence – “Students are acquirements about Proof-Of-Existence for their work, actuality able to prove for archetype that a photo they accept taken absolutely belongs to them.”
The School Has Created Its Own Cryptocurrency, Called Woorannacoin
Nolan states that the students’ acknowledgment has been “really absolute overall… “There accept been some absolutely developed discussions about area money comes from and why it’s important, affidavit of assignment vs affidavit of pale and the environment. One apprentice alike asked ‘why we don’t accept a accepted basal assets on the blockchain already?'”
In a apple first, the primary academy has created its own cryptocurrency, alleged Woorannacoin. Woorannacoin was originally advised to be “a voting arrangement for students,” but has back developed into “a acquirements apparatus on how to actualize our own currency.” Nolan states that he “now [has] a accumulation of year 4 acceptance that appetite to do their own ICO.”
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