Super easy PDF commenting for better collaborative reading and comprehension

In recent years lots of teachers would have spotted students developing the habit and tendency to skim read online and the shallow comprehension skills that follow. In Economics we constantly give students resources to read over to supporting their thinking and their understanding of case studies, yet many students will read too quickly and superficially …

Sorting, grouping and working with examples: Concept Formation in Economics

In beginning a new unit, teachers always look for prior knowledge and then attempt to build on these understandings. A wide range of research points to this as an essential way to make 'learning stick', by developing students mental schema and to help them hang new learning from existing frameworks. Activating prior knowledge In starting …

Padlet – for collaboration and low stakes formative assessment

I have perhaps become a little reticent of new Web 2.0 tools and the hype lots of them generate for a short period of time, before the next fun toy comes along. Something that I keep coming back to at the moment is a great collaboration tool called Padlet. (previously known as Wallwisher) I strongly …

The basics of flipping instruction – engagement and differentiation

This school year I am back with an Economics class of my own and have a chance to put lots of the great ideas I am learning as a Digital Literacy Coach into practise. A great hint I learned last year from a colleague Steve Vorster at UWCSEA, is to repurpose a Google Form to …