Sharing Ideas in Economics Teaching

Encouraging a Sharing Culture in Economics Teaching
Geoff Riley FRSA, Eton College and Tutor2u

Models of pedagogy are changing… I hope!

Do we risk drowning in a sea of information?

What do you use to draw information and ideas in your teaching?

The new web is a global collaborative platform … are we making best use of it as teachers?

Networks of businesses in Silicon Valley

Building a new network takes minutes!
Colleagues who use the hash tag #ecbusteach

This is the era of shared learning

In the 21st century – sharing and collaborating should be part of the DNA of every teacher

Sharing ideas, resources, passion for this great subject

Building a personal learning network

Making great use of Twitter

Connect direct with experts

Fresh insights into a changing world

Let the news come to you!

Get alerts for free enrichment events

Slide Share – simple to publish resources for students and colleagues

Much content migrating to social media

Facebook Groups as a channel and filter of great content and activity

Google Docs – sharing good practice
For inspiring uses of social media tools and digital technology I recommend you follow Tom Barrett

Using Google Docs
Collaboration is the key!
Online at any time and in real time e.g. group work during a lesson
Chat facility
Collaborate on
Essays and other written assignments
Group presentations
Shareable notes from external presentations and other events
Past paper questions
Revision press conferences!
Revision exercises and routine notes
Brainstorming of ideas for presentations and magazines
Preparatory work for university applications
All revisions are saved and recoverable
Files might be synched using Drop Box and embedded into VLE

Building collaboration into teaching

g.riley@etoncollege.org.uk@tutor2u_econ
Please contact to share ideas and resources!

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Sharing Ideas in Economics Teaching

by Geoff Riley on Jun 08, 2011

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