14.1Use visuals as teaching tools
Use diagrams, tables, timelines, and interface examples to reveal relationships, not decorate a lecture.
Before showing a visual:
- identify the one idea learners should notice
- ask learners to predict the relationship or sequence
- confirm that labels match the current Student Guide and local language
- explain symbols and reading order
- check that the visual works in grayscale and at phone or print size; and
- prepare a spoken or text equivalent.
After showing it:
- ask a learner to explain the relationship
- name what the visual simplifies
- correct any misleading inference; and
- connect it to the activity or next section.
Educator-useful visual areas include:
- functions versus properties of money
- barter and double coincidence
- local fiat roles and bank balance sheets
- liquidity versus solvency
- inflation and purchasing power
- Bitcoin roles and proof of work
- supply, halvings, and sats
- fiat issue / Bitcoin response / responsibility
- wallet, key, address, and seed relationships
- safe recovery and transaction checks
- confirmations, explorer privacy, and address reuse
- scam red flags
- on-chain and Lightning comparison
- Presentation → Practice → Production
- local payment paths, merchant flows, and circular economies; and
- final safety and next steps.
Never display a real learner seed phrase, private key, payable address, invoice, balance, identity, or transaction. Mark fictional payment data SAMPLE — DO NOT PAY.
Do not turn a qualified text claim into an absolute visual. A supply chart must not imply price growth. A decentralization map must not imply equal influence. A wallet image must not imply bitcoin is stored inside the device.
