Encouraging a Sharing Culture in Economics TeachingGeoff Riley FRSA, Eton College and Tutor2u

Models of pedagogy are changing… I hope!

Do we risk drowning in a sea of information?

What do you use to draw information and ideas in your teaching?

The new web is a global collaborative platform … are we making best use

of it as teachers?

Networks of businesses in Silicon Valley

Building a new network takes minutes!

Colleagues who use the hash tag #ecbusteach

This is the era of shared learning

In the 21st century – sharing and collaborating should be part of the DNA of every teacher

Sharing ideas, resources, passion for this great subject

PLN

School Team

Social Media

News Media

Teacher Contacts

Economics Experts

Internal & Outside CPD

Facebook Twitter

LinkedIn Google Apps

Tutor2u Team

Royal Economic

Society

Overseas Contacts

Wider Teaching

Community

Building a personal learning network

Moodle 2.0 (and other VLE systems)• Global community of >1 million teachers

Google Docs• Flexible tool for collaborative work, peer assessment and

editing

Twitter• Dynamic flow of ideas, links, communities for help and support

Drop Box• Online sharing of presentations and many other documents

Slide Share• Quick and easy way to share teaching resources

Making great use of Twitter

Connect direct with experts

Fresh insights into a changing world

Let the news come to you!

Get alerts for free enrichment events

Slide Share – simple to publish resources for students and colleagues

Much content migrating to social media

Facebook Groups as a channel and filter of great content and activity

Google Docs – sharing good practice

For inspiring uses of social media tools and digital technology I recommend you follow Tom Barrett

Using Google Docs

• Collaboration is the key!– Online at any time and in real time e.g. group work during a lesson– Chat facility

• Collaborate on – Essays and other written assignments– Group presentations– Shareable notes from external presentations and other events– Past paper questions– Revision press conferences!– Revision exercises and routine notes– Brainstorming of ideas for presentations and magazines– Preparatory work for university applications

• All revisions are saved and recoverable• Files might be synched using Drop Box and embedded into VLE

Student Blogs and Study Journals

Collaborative Google Docs

Practicals and Simulations

Student Generated Glossaries

Forums and Discussions

Student Generated Quiz

Activities

Student Presentations /

Debates

Problem Based Learning

Conditional activities

Building collaboration into teaching

G.RILEY@ETONCOLLEGE.ORG.UK@TUTOR2U_ECON

Please contact to share ideas and resources!