Macro at the Moller - Fresh Ideas for Teaching
The Annual Autumn Conference for Economics Teachers - Monday 23 November 2009
Venue: Moller Centre, University of Cambridge
Make provisional bookings here
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Just two weeks to go before our Autumn Economics Teacher Conference at the wonderful Moller Centre, Cambridge University.
The day has a macroeconomic flavour but also some sessions dedicated to developing web skills for students and teachers to generate ideas and improve their evaluation skills.
George Buckley, Chief UK Economist at Deutsche Bank and a frequent commentator on economic issues on television will be giving us a comprehensive macroeconomic update.
Jon Clarke will be showcasing some tremendous economic policy simulation games and other PowerPoint-based economics resources.
I will be presenting on collaborative web tools inside and outside the classroom.
Ruth Tarrant and Amanda Campion will also showcase some of the most popular new economics teaching resources from their recent successful CPD programme.
The Moller is a terrific venue and we are looking forward to meeting up with old friends and new.
Accommodation is available for those staying on the Sunday night before our event. As usual we will be taking the ‘Sunday Night Crew’ for a hot supper and drinks courtesy of tutor2u and there will be free minibuses for colleagues who need a speedy getaway to the train station on the Monday afternoon.
Make provisional bookings here
IB Economics - Improving Evaluation Skills
Here is a streamed version of the presentation I gave to the Hong Kong CPD day, focusing on how IB Economics students can improve their evaluation skills:
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Experimenting with Forums
One of my aims this term is to experiment with the use of forums as a way of encouraging students to write about economics and reflect on what they have read, seen, heard or discussed. It is still early days, but the Moodle VLE offers several different types of forums each of which can be used in a variety of ways.
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Gathering Data about the UK Economy
For students preparing assignments on the current performance of the UK economy here is a brief selection of useful web resources
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Start the new term with by adding our free Economics Blog widget to your departmental VLE, blog or website. You can also add this content to a Facebook, MySpace or Bebo page. The possibilities are endless…
read more...»Economics Categories Game
Here is a pdf version of the economics categories game that was trialled at the June Economics Conference with the basic rules!
read more...»10 Great Ways to use Moodle in the Classroom
I am spending some time this weekend improving our Moodle VLE courses for AS and A2 Economics - the response from schools and colleges to come on board and develop a collaborative course has been tremendous and there will be over thirty different schools, a hundred or more teachers and well over a thousand students having access when school starts in a few days.
Here is a super post from Miguel Guhlin, who recently re-posted a collection of 10 “Moodle instructional use scenarios” which is basically 10 ways that you might successfully use Moodle in the classroom.
Result of the 2009 RES Essay Competition
The Royal Economic Society and Tutor2U are delighted to announce that the winner of the Young Economist of the Year competition 2009 is Tiffany Young of St Catherine’s School, Bramley. First runner up is Doug Swift of Eton College with a joint third place awarded to Philip Edmondson-Jones of Berkhamsted School and Leander McCormick-Goodhart of Eton College. For further details please see the final judges report from this link.
Our congratulations go to all four students who will be awarded their cheques at the Society’s Public Lecture in London on Wednesday 25th November. Thank you to all those who entered from more than 200 schools and colleges. 38 entries were identified as Highly Commended and from these 13 made it to the final round of judging. We hope many of you will attend the Public Lecture on Wednesday 25th November in London or 26th November in Bristol, which will be given by Sir Partha Dasgupta on the subject of “Law and Morality in Economics”.
The Scale of Moodle
Our Moodle VLE continues to develop and several schools and colleges have signed up for the forthcoming academic year. It is interesting to track the official statistics for Moodle, based on registration details held with the Moodle website. Accessing this today I found the following:
Market Failure in Pictures!
I loved Ruth Tarrant’s idea (presented at the conference this week) to create a sketch which captures so many different market failures. Pictonomics is the embryonic title for the teaching concept and it is an idea that enthused the 170+ strong audience at the British Library - within twenty minutes we have unearthed over fifty examples of potential market failure just from the existing sketch alone! As a supplementary exercise we were asked to suggest fresh ideas for market (and possible government failure) in the same landscape!
Could the same be done in other areas of economics? For example macroeconomic factors affecting a local town? Or perhaps aspects of development / international economics (a sketch based around a trading port?)
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