richardallaway.me - Teacher, Geographer, Resource Creator and Technology Integrationist

❓ Why I incorporate FT resources into my teaching

Students are required to discuss or evaluate in a way that shows conceptual insight into the context of the expected knowledge and understanding.

Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You - Ali Abdaal

The researchers were trying to investigate what effect curiosity had on people's minds. For one thing, the researchers had a hunch that when people were curious about something, they remembered the details better. They were right. The study showed that people were a whopping 30 per cent more likely to recall a fact they found interesting, rather than a fact they found boring.

Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You - Ali Abdaal

📝 How I incorporate FT resources into my teaching

A tool for educators

• A source of contemporary, engaging material.

A tool for students

• Not many students will independently choose to access such a news source regularly.
• There is an opportunity for an educator to prescribe exercises that require/strongly encourage student engagement.

Examples

The recommended teaching approach throughout the course is to focus on the concepts and to use case studies and examples, or detailed examples, to illustrate content and to contextualize these concepts.