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  In excited support of the release of the fabulous new book ‘Organise Ideas’ from Oliver Caviglioli and David Goodwin, I am sharing some of the various ways I have used word diagrams in my own practice. I hope these  posts  will be of particular use to teachers of economics and business, but also more widely! ---------------------------------------------------- I love the topic of 'sources of finances' in Business, but it is seriously unwieldy! Teaching a seemingly endless list of sources and their accompanying lists of advantages and disadvantages has been attempted by me in a numerous sub-optimal (sorry! I was really trying, it's hard!) ways over the years unfortunately. The decision to try and bring order to the boredom/chaos/overload by attempting to design a diagram to support my teaching of the key ideas has significantly improved the situation though! Avoiding Mapshock Presenting an entire diagram at once can be overwhelming for the learner, so I present this one gr

  In excited support of the release of the fabulous new book ‘Organise Ideas’ from Oliver Caviglioli and David Goodwin, I am sharing some of the various ways I have used word diagrams in my own practice. I hope these posts will be of particular use to teachers of economics, but also more widely! Economics & Business Word Diagrams - Blog Post Links Retrieval Practice and Elaboration... with Venn Diagrams - Microeconomic concepts (numerous, simple) - Venn diagram - created with PPT - Retrieval practice, elaboration Exploring container and path concepts to support organisation - Macroeconomics - Trade Blocs - Hybrid diagram - created with PPT - Organising thinking for writing and memory Using Word Diagrams for Deep Thinking and Detailed Memories - Microeconomics - Market Structures - Complex double spray diagram - created with PPT - Retrieval practice, attention, schema links for memory Beyond Tables - Microeconomics - Contestability - Input-Output diagram - created with diagrams.net

  In excited support of the release of the fabulous new book ‘Organise Ideas’ from Oliver Caviglioli and David Goodwin, I am sharing some of the various ways I have used word diagrams in my own practice. I hope these posts will be of particular use to teachers of economics and business, but also more widely! ---------------------------------------------------- "Whatever students think about is what they will remember" Daniel Willingham, 'Why don't students like school?' (2021). I am keen to have students think deeply about the content they are learning.  Phase One: Table - Sequenced Instruction I teach students about the  characteristics of market structures using a table initially. This enables me to go cell by cell, carefully sequencing my explanation of the 6 characteristics (using an acronym, PIGPEN, to support later retrieval) in the context of each of the 4 structures. (I actually omit details on the profit row initially, but that's a sequencing story f

  In excited support of the release of the fabulous new book ‘Organise Ideas’ from Oliver Caviglioli and David Goodwin, I am sharing some of the various ways I have used word diagrams in my own practice. I hope these posts will be of particular use to teachers of economics and business, but also of use and interest more widely too! One of the most useful ideas that David and Oliver share and describe in their book is that of the difference between 'container' and 'path' concepts* in our ways of thinking about things. These ideas have been extremely helpful to me in thinking about ways in which I organise information which I want to present in my teaching.  Typically, when selecting a type of word diagram to organise information, the choice is usually binary; container organiser or path organiser. This post explores how thinking deeply about container and path concepts can occasionally lead to choice of a hybrid diagram that supports a particularly specific concept and p