Jul 13 2008
Welker’s daily links 07/12/2008
Published by Jason Welker at 12:30 am under
Technorati
Flickr
del.icio.us
Ice Rocket
Wikipedia-
Environment and the Economy | A Curriculum from the Foundation for Teaching Economics
FTE’s The Environment and the Economy has a triple focus: economics content, economic reasoning, and developing a critical thinking/teaching model:
Content: the economic content perspective on environmental issues;
Reasoning: employing economic reasoning to better understand environmental issues and behavior;
Pedagogy: modeling an intellectual approach to controversial issues.
About the author: Jason Welker is a teacher at Zurich International School in Switzerland, where he teaches Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate Economics. Jason was an international school student in Malaysia before studying economics at Seattle University then earning his Masters in Education. He calls Seattle and Northern Idaho home. In addition to maintaining an economics wiki and this blog for economics student and educators, Jason also gives presentations on using Web 2.0 tools in education at workshops and conferences around the world. His economics wiki won the 2007 "Best Educational Wiki" award from the "EduBlog Awards". 
![Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Z1scnqz1L._SL160_.jpg "Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything")
![The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded]: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/410FGAGYGPL._SL160_.jpg "The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded]: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman")
