Educational Technology

June 8, 2014

Why We Should Be Teaching Financial Literacy

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:39 am

By Katie Lepi, Edudemic

These days, digital literacy is often cited as being “the fourth literacy”, but there are many other literacies out there that our students need if they’re going to be successful, functional adults in a connected, challenging, global world. The video linked below addresses the idea of financial literacy as a subject that should be taught in schools. It uses data from the Council for Economic Education’s 2014 Survey of the States. As a teacher, do you feel fit to teach students about personal finance? Do you think students should be required to learn/be evaluated on personal finance at either the secondary or post-secondary level?

http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/2014/may/15/ten-reasons-we-should-ditch-university-lectures?CMP=twt_gu

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