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Something about Money
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When we teach money, either in a personal finance or an economics class, we frequently give little time to the whys and hows - why we use money and how it has evolved to its current state. And we often ignore some of the interesting paradoxes that it engenders. This would appear to be a book (review courtesy of ...11 hours ago -
The Best Places To Find Quotations On The Web
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I periodically look for quotations — for articles, posters, etc. I get pretty frustrated by most of the online quotation sites because they often don’t provide the source for the quotes, nor any information about the person who supposedly said the quote. I’ve searched and searched, and I still I’ve only ...19 hours ago -
“Does ‘Counting Our Blessings’ Really Help?”
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“Does ‘Counting Our Blessings’ Really Help?” is a report from Cognitive Daily sharing research that shows having students regularly list what they are grateful for helps them develop a more positive outlook. Doing it daily generated the greatest benefit, but it appears that doing it weekly helped, too. I ...1 day ago -
“Frenchfrog’s Little English Pond”
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“Frenchfrog’s Little English Pond” is the name of a blog written by Laurence Haquet. She creates great interactive books that are exceptional learning tools. I’ve added her book on Thanksgiving to The Best Sites To Learn & Teach About Thanksgiving. And I’ve added her book on Halloween to The ...1 day ago -
More On Helping Students Visualize Success
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Last week I posted about an experiment I was doing with my mainstream and English Language Learner students using visual imagery. In that post, I included links to research done by Zoltán Dörnyei on using visual imagery specifically with English Language Learners. Today, I learned about another article by him ...1 day ago -
Decision-Tree for Fast Food
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Here is an interesting "decision-tree" matrix on fast food (HT to Chartporn ). Some of the questions might make it inappropriate for some classes. But you may get a chuckle out of it. And if you do find it usable, all the better. I welcome your thoughts on its usability.3 days ago -
Market Skills: Technology vs. People
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As economies change, the need for skills can change. This cartoon might be an example of a chicken-or-egg situation, but theres a clear message. What do you think?3 days ago -
Catch of the Day - The Teachers Corner - 24 Nov 09
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TheTeachersCorner.net is todays fresh catchThe Teachers Corner was launched in 1998 as an online resource for educators. The Teachers Corner is an extensive collection of lesson plans along with a wide range of other resources for teachers. On the home page youll see sections covering numerous topics, such as Whats ...3 days ago -
Compasses Or Road Maps?
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I read, hear, and even write a lot about “techniques” that are supposed to improve schools and classroom instruction. Often times, professional development books and workshops (and teacher hand-outs at staff meetings) are filled with zillions of them — how to use multiple intelligences, technology, specific ...3 days ago -
Big Huge Thesaurus
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What it is: Big Huge Thesaurus is a must add to your classroom publishing center. The tag line of Big Huge Thesaurus says it all: “synonyms, antonyms, and rhymes (oh my!)”. Big Huge Thesaurus goes beyond other online thesauruses by giving students a wealth of synonyms (for each part of speech), words ...4 days ago -
BrainPop Jr.: Thanksgiving
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What it is: BrainPop is usually a paid service. This week, BrainPop Jr. is offering their Thanksgiving with Annie and Mobi for free. The video teaches students about the first Thanksgiving and includes plenty of facts about the Pilgrims, the Wampanoag, and the famous harvest feast. The video includes ...4 days ago -
A Bit of Macro over the Weekend
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I ran across two items that might be of interest to you. The first is a paper from a pair of Harvard professors. (HT to Greg Mankiw .) Their research is noteworthy for its conclusion: "Fiscal stimuli based upon tax cuts are more likely to increase growth than those based upon spending increases." Their ...4 days ago -
The Best Places To Find Lyrics On The Web
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Singing songs is a great way to help English Language Learners get past their understandable reluctance to speak in a new language, and a good vocabulary-building activity. In addition, you can create clozes (fill-in-the-gaps) with the lyrics, use them to teach grammar, and have students use the real lyrics as ...4 days ago -
“Pushcart” Educator Named CNN Hero Of The Year
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A teacher and the organization he began has just been recognized by the Cable News Network. I’m “copying-and-pasting” some paragraphs about him from CNN since they describe the project so well. I’m also including some links to some nice videos and text. Efren Peñaflorida, who started a “pushcart ...5 days ago -
Now This Sounds Like An Essential Quality A Teacher Should Have…
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The New York Times Book Review printed a very short interview with author Steven Pinker a week last week. It was same issue in which Pinker had written a review of Malcolm Gladwell’s newest book. Here’s an excerpt from that interview: “…Pinker, the author of “How the Mind Works” and “The Blank ...6 days ago -
The Rules of Netiquette for Online Gaming and RPGs
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The upcoming issue of Imagine Magazine is going to focus on online gaming and role-playing games, so I was pumped when they approached me to see if I was interested in contributing again to their magazine. After all, for all my readers out there, you know that I’m a WoW player, and the prompt they gave me was ...6 days ago -
Gift Idea for the Holidays
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For those of you looking for an unusual gift for that hard-to-buy for economics fan, give this a look. Check this out. HT to the Austrian Economists by way of Marginal Revolution .6 days ago -
Top-down Versus Bottom-up
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There was a very interesting post on Voxeu.org the other day. The upshot was that bottom-up economics is better than top-down. When I first read the title, I was expecting a discussion of trickle-down vs. trickle-up. But that was not the case. Based on some research from other sciences, the author makes a case ...6 days ago -
Globalizations Effects?
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The Globalization 101 website has what I consider to be a very good and useful definition of globalization . What I like about it, and why I use it with my students, is that it takes in "non-economic" factors - culture, technology, and politics - when examining the impact of Globalization. Once youve examined ...6 days ago -
Ninth-Grade Challenges
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Our school places a heavy emphasis on working with our ninth-graders. As regular readers know, I teach a lot of students in that grade. Stuck in 9th Grade: The Bulge in the Education Pipeline is a report from Education Week which shares recent research showing why that kind of focus is just so important.1 week ago
