Amyaz Moledina
Amyaz Moledina
jndi...@gmail.com
Technologies for Teaching/Doing Macro June 29, 2013
1) Websites for Data:
How to Help Students Find the Data we want them to get:
a) Librarian assistance
b) Peer Learning
c) Written/Video help sections:
The Macro Data Guide:
Haver Analytics:--- possible educational subscription for data..
Econometric Software Use:
2) Key Sources:
DeLong, WSJ, Financial Times, Economist, Real Clear Politics,
NYTimes Economix, Mark Thoma,
Amyaz’s blog
list on twitter:
Course Webpage with key links.
Ruccio’s Unequal Representations
3) Pedagogical Issues:
a) Using the Class to Search for answers to questions on a policy issue.
Look things up, leads to more questions. Users student skills and devices – crowdsource knowledge.
b) “Canvas” Course Management Software
Allows students to specify the way they want to be contacted.
Having students participate in “discussions” on
c) Twitter
Use a FEED to gather articles: get articles tweeted to you.
Then use hashtag # to collect/identify articles
Yahoo pipe
4) Videos:
Current events: introducing ideas, events, issues of the day.
Learn/Liberty
Paddy Hirsh: the crisis explainer
Planet Money
Colbert/Stewart
Macro Topics.
Creating videos to cover optional topics.
5) Clickers/Poll Everywhere: Vecon games.
So so review of clickers
Apps…
Survey Monkey
Doodle
Princeton Educational Technology Center
Tasks:
Share teaching successes: feed questions.
a) good survey questions
b) discussion techniques: fishbowl
c) good questions, prompts, for topical issues, video clips,
Challenges and Questions:
Figuring out how to navigate all the options, choosing mechanisms that work, having a clearinghouse, how to Navigate within specific sites.
VIDEO TOPICS: Flipping the
Classroom vs.
Central Bank Balance sheets and QE: what, why, impact, worries.
Video of Unemployment Figures
CPI
substitution
GDP
Graphing Tutorials: at FRED Page 1.
How the data: Price, Employment data gathered.
Special Topics:
Risk, Narrative/Historical exposition.
Vs. the
Plumbing, key concepts, textbook exposition: examples. etc.
Multipliers, Derivations, Shifting Curves,
Vs. more provocative… pointed positions…
Uses of Technology
Communication among students and between students and faculty
Data analysis: sources and programs
Lectures from notables
Fostering interaction among students over issues,
Key concepts explained, demonstrated
On Friday, June 28, 2013 12:36:48 PM UTC-4, Amyaz Moledina wrote:
jndi...@gmail.com
On Friday, June 28, 2013 12:36:48 PM UTC-4, Amyaz Moledina wrote:
jndi...@gmail.com
On Friday, June 28, 2013 12:36:48 PM UTC-4, Amyaz Moledina wrote:
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Joyce Burnette
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1. Most people use the on-line homework service Aplia. However, each student has to pay to subscribe and it is expensive.
2. Content of principles is quite similar across schools. Hope and Earlham have two semesters of principles; others have one semester. Other schools do asymmetric information and market failure, but not the edgeworth box, in intermediate micro.
3. We talked about the issue of math skills, and thought it might be possible to do a joint GLCA math camp during the summer (a week or two at some campus).
4. Flipped classroom
Goal: Move classroom culture towards student-constructed knowledge.
Things to remember:
Create a need-to-know so students will actually view it.
Evaluated wither students are watching the video: check access report in Canvas or include questions to answer in Canvas.
Rajaram Krishnan (Earlham) is trying a flipped classroom in Micro in the fall.
Suggested flow for flipping
Assign lecture to view and text chapter
-> Something to make sure they did it - quiz, write a paragraph, post to discussion board
-> In class: - discuss homework paragraph or discussion posts
- do problem sets
- discuss applications
5. Technologies for posting lectures on-line.
a. Video tape in empty classroom
b. LiveScribe with Pulse pen
c. educrations.com in ipad
Recommended limit of 5 minutes.
Create a need to know. Have an assignment or quiz based on what they watched.
6. Technologies for lecturing
a. Powerpoint with One-note, on a touch-screen PC
b. Airsketch with ipod
c. “Bamboo” wacom-enabled stylus
7. Canvas is better than Moodle.
8. Software for creating graphs: OmniGS
Omni Graph-Sketcher
9. Suggested books:
On ethics: Ken Boulding, D. McCloskey
an example of doing it wrong: Michael Sandel, Morality of Markets
Book for advanced micro: Jehle and Reny
10. On-line sources for video clips, etc.
Dirk Mateer:
Seinfeld videos
Business simulations
Harvard Business School publications
Experiments
serc.carlton.edu/sp/library/experiments/introecon.html
serc.carlton.edu/econ/index.html
Nestor’s YouTube video on videos
11. Data site: tradingeconomics.org
Lisa Verdon
Lisa
On Friday, June 28, 2013 12:36:48 PM UTC-4, Amyaz Moledina wrote: