I'm teaching a multi-part "Financial Technology for end users" course in my community (small town western Canada) starting this week. The attendees will be mostly small business owners/operators and people re-entering the workforce. It's going to rely pretty heavily on discussion and answering questions, but these are the basic points I'm going to hit on:
- What is Financial Technology?
- What is cash?
- What is trade?
- What are paper cheques?
- What are wire transfers?
- What is Interac?
- What are credit cards?
- What is fiat money?
- What is currency?
- What is cryptocurrency?
- What are banks?
- What are credit unions?
- What is online banking?
- What are stock/bonds/mutual funds?
- What are commercial creditors?
To anyone on here who has supported end users (in personal or professional environments), what sort of things do you wish they would know/learn in this space? I'm thinking the hardest part will be showing relevance to their daily tasks; any thoughts on this?