Empowering Students Through the Lens of Economics

Summary: This episode explores the power that comes from teaching economics as a reflection of human action and the ways that this lens can help teachers empower their students to understand that their choices and actions matter. During the conversation, Kobi and Colman also discuss what it takes to have honest, complex conversations about economics and why content knowledge matters just as much as pedagogy.

Timestamps:

4:44 — The Sphere Summit experience and how it reinvigorated teacher passion

8:25 — Connecting students to the bigger picture through economics as human action

12:25 — Challenging conversations around economic systems and trade-offs

16:31 — Pedagogical strategies including news culture, and real-time charting

22:18 — Teaching predictions through the concept of consumer anticipation

28:18 — The content knowledge gap facing economics educators

32:57 — What all educators should know about the value of economics

Resources Mentioned:

• "Spotlighting the World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell"
• The World Factbook Archives (from UPenn)
• Financial Times
• The Wall Street Journal
• Bloomberg
• The Journal of Economic Education
• Sphere Education Initiatives
• Sphere's Real World Economics Lessons
• Sphere's Economics in One Virus Lessons

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