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Using twitter in the Economics Classroom to enhance teaching and learning
3rd December 2014
Last week the University of Worcester hosted a Teach Meet event in the West Midlands. I gave a nano presentation (3 mins) on the use of twitter for teaching and learning. The resources I used are attached below.I ask all students to follow the Departmental Twitter page and then once a week they must complete one of the extension tasks. The best way for them to do this is usually by using the search function of the hashtag #f581 (for example, this is the name of the OCR Microeconomics Module my students sit) or likewise #f584 (for OCR Transport Economics) but of course, this applies to IB SL and Hl, as well as Pre-U, AQA, Edexcel and other boards.Each week I check my students folders, ensuring they have completed the extension work - I find this helps them with the application of theory to real life economic situations, as well as providing some stretch and challenge for the most able. Of course, they do not have to use twitter for this. All my students have the Economist and the Espresso Economist app on their smart phone, as well as the BBC news to name but a few. They are allowed to use any source of reading they chose - but most chose the twitter source as the # search function makes their life a little easier.