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Triple A Learning is running four Economics workshops in February 2012. We have a new Triple A Learning Economics workshop beginning on 27th February and lasting 3 weeks:
Teaching International Economics, which has been designed to support teachers in the classroom delivering the topic.
Price discrimination is a far more common practice than most students are aware of and they find the standard example of movie tickets quite compelling. This report, Why heavy people should pay more to fly, raises the issue of whether airlines should charge passengers on the basis of weight and should provoke a interesting discussion of the merits of such a decision.
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HL students can find the self-correcting nature of current account imbalances within a free floating exchange environment difficult to grasp. It is not a topic often addressed by the mainstream press but this article by Bloomberg, China-Japan Currency Agreement points to a New World Order is a good opportunity for students to understand the concept.
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With the start of the new semester for schools working towards the May exams, Macroeconomics and Development Economics are the major focus of this semester.
I thought this was a good time to highlight resources and teaching strategies that have been introduced in the past.
Bloomberg has recently added a new focus to its news reporting: Sustainability. These articles focus on issues related to the environment, business ethics and resource depletion. As well as news stories, links are provided to videos and debates on related topics. This categories is well worth exploring and Bloomberg is to be commended for increasing awareness of the challenges facing the global environment.
The Economist has a great feature on its website, “Economics by Invitation”. Key questions are posed and answered by leading economists. The range is questions is diverse and of interest to both teachers and students. For example some of their more popular questions include the following:
An economic slowdown brought about by a natural disaster is tragically illustrated by the recent floods in Thailand as the nation struggles to recover and count the cost now that the waters are receding.
Most economists are slashing their forward estimates of GDP growth and see a strong possibility of an interest rate cut to help stimulate the economy.
Here at Triple A Learning, we’ve always supported the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) cause. With a mission to “empower the world’s poorest children through education“, who could fail to be moved by its ideals.
Most IB Classes are about to start teaching currency exchange from Section 4 and one topical way to introduce the topic is to focus on US claims that the Chinese manipulate their currency to gain trade advantages.
In a recent speech Obama talked tough on the issue. The Chinese countered by saying that all of America’s problems will not be solved by an appreciation of their currency. There does however seem to be some tentative signs of a softening of the usual Chinese response as reported by Bloomberg. These and other articles on the continuing currency wars can be an effective way to introduce the definitions and diagrams of this section.
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