He threw away his notes....

It's not about technology, but Professor Steve Greenlaw of University of Mary Washington is attempting an experiment to truly move away from ”chalk & talk” teaching in his principles of macro course this semester. He would like to invite you to follow this experiment over the semester and give him feedback along the way. Any questions, comments, concerns or suggestions are welcome.
If you are interested, even a little, here’s what you can do: Go to his blog, where he is writing about the experiment at http://jerryslezak.net/pedablogy/?cat=23 . Interesting reading...

Midwest Conference on Student Learning in Economics: Innovation, Assessment and Classroom Technology

This is to call your attention to a rapidly upcoming conference, one we believe is the premier conference in economic education concentrating on technological innovation, assessment and classroom research.

You still have a chance to present at the Midwest Conference on Student Learning in Economics: Innovation, Assessment and Classroom Research held in Akron on October 28, 2005. We will accept posters presentations until October 7. Come enjoy our conference and give us a preview of what you have in store for your ASSA session.

Call for Presentations

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We are proud to announce many of the scheduled speakers. Please look and see which of your colleagues have been accepted so far.

2005 Speakers and Schedule

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Finally, we are proud to be the premier if not only economics conference to feature the latest in instructional technology. To that end we have six new sponsors that bring exciting technology to you and will participate in our Technology Showcase.

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He's back

I haven’t published to this blog for most of this year.  I intend to change that with this post and again comment on teaching and learning economics with technology.  One of the new blogger.com options is the use of a toolbar that allows publishing directly from word and this post is my first test of that option.

Web-based survey to assist high school economics students

First day of the meetings, the most outstanding use of technology in the classroom today has to go to Alan Krueger, Princeton University and NBER, for his paper "Using a Web-based Questionnaire as an Aide for High School Economics Instruction." Krueger provides a questionnaire online at the Princeton survey research center that HS economics instructors can assign to their class. In a few days the center sends the instructor a full report of what the students reported. The survey provides response date for classroom discussion on various economics principles. I think it is a wonderful idea

I think it is also a good tip for every day use at the university level. I can create a survey in WebCT (as I am sure the Blackboard schools can too) and have my students take it, then follow up with my students on why they chose these answers and use their responses to engage the students. Mike Nelson and I have done this as part of a larger research project where we were trying to get a baseline of student's economic awareness, but we did not go on to use it in class. Perhaps I should. Read Krueger, you will like it.