IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/jtc/journl/v4y2019i1p15-26.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Tweeting Adam Smith: Using Twitter to Engage Students in the History of Economic Thought

Author

Listed:
  • Erin E. George

    (Hood College)

Abstract

This paper presents a novel way to use Twitter to engage students in advanced economics courses. While prior research provides some uses of Twitter in introductory ...

Suggested Citation

  • Erin E. George, 2019. "Tweeting Adam Smith: Using Twitter to Engage Students in the History of Economic Thought," Journal of Economics Teaching, Journal of Economics Teaching, vol. 4(1), pages 15-26, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:jtc:journl:v:4:y:2019:i:1:p:15-26
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://downloads.journalofeconomicsteaching.org/4/1/1-2.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.journalofeconomicsteaching.org/tweeting-adam-smith-using-twitter-to-engage-students-in-the-history-of-economic-thought-george/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Abdullah Al-Bahrani & Darshak Patel & Brandon J. Sheridan, 2017. "Have economic educators embraced social media as a teaching tool?," The Journal of Economic Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 48(1), pages 45-50, January.
    2. Alice Louise Kassens, 2014. "Tweeting Your Way to Improved #Writing, #Reflection, and #Community," The Journal of Economic Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 45(2), pages 101-109, June.
    3. Rebecca L. Moryl, 2014. "Podcasts as a Tool for Teaching Economics," The Journal of Economic Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 45(3), pages 284-285, September.
    4. Rebecca Moryl & Shuyi Jiang, 2013. "Using Economics Podcasts to Engage Students of Different Learning Styles," International Advances in Economic Research, Springer;International Atlantic Economic Society, vol. 19(2), pages 201-202, May.
    5. Abdullah Al-Bahrani & Darshak Patel, 2015. "Incorporating Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook in Economics Classrooms," The Journal of Economic Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 46(1), pages 56-67, March.
    6. Al-Bahrani, Abdullah & Holder, Kim & Moryl, Rebecca L. & Ryan Murphy, Patrick & Patel, Darshak, 2016. "Putting yourself in the picture with an ‘ECONSelfie’: Using student-generated photos to enhance introductory economics courses," International Review of Economics Education, Elsevier, vol. 22(C), pages 16-22.
    7. Moryl, Rebecca, 2013. "T-shirts, moonshine, and autopsies: Using podcasts to engage undergraduate microeconomics students," International Review of Economics Education, Elsevier, vol. 13(C), pages 67-74.
    8. Abdullah Al-Bahrani & Darshak Patel & Brandon J. Sheridan, 2017. "Evaluating Twitter and its impact on student learning in principles of economics courses," The Journal of Economic Education, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 48(4), pages 243-253, October.
    9. Michael K. Salemi, 2002. "An Illustrated Case for Active Learning," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 68(3), pages 721-731, January.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Sarah F. Small, 2023. "Infusing Diversity in a History of Economic Thought Course: An Archival Study of Syllabi and Resources for Redesign," Eastern Economic Journal, Palgrave Macmillan;Eastern Economic Association, vol. 49(3), pages 276-311, June.
    2. Middleditch, Paul & Moindrot, Will & Rudkin, Simon, 2022. "Teaching with Twitter: An extension to the traditional learning environment," International Review of Economics Education, Elsevier, vol. 41(C).

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Jones, Michael D. & Baltzersen, Max, 2017. "Using twitter for economics business case discussions in large lectures," International Review of Economics Education, Elsevier, vol. 26(C), pages 14-18.
    2. Al-Bahrani, Abdullah & Holder, Kim & Moryl, Rebecca L. & Ryan Murphy, Patrick & Patel, Darshak, 2016. "Putting yourself in the picture with an ‘ECONSelfie’: Using student-generated photos to enhance introductory economics courses," International Review of Economics Education, Elsevier, vol. 22(C), pages 16-22.
    3. Middleditch, Paul & Moindrot, Will & Rudkin, Simon, 2022. "Teaching with Twitter: An extension to the traditional learning environment," International Review of Economics Education, Elsevier, vol. 41(C).
    4. Jadrian Wooten, 2022. "Book Review: Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing, by Goldstein, J," The American Economist, Sage Publications, vol. 67(1), pages 155-158, March.
    5. Abdullah Al-Bahrani & David Mahon & G. Dirk Mateer & Patrick Ryan Murphy, 2018. "Pokemon GO: Applications for the Economics Classroom," Journal of Economics Teaching, Journal of Economics Teaching, vol. 3(2), pages 218-231, December.
    6. Carrasco-Gallego, José A., 2017. "Introducing economics to millennials," International Review of Economics Education, Elsevier, vol. 26(C), pages 19-29.
    7. Dowell, Chelsea T. & Duncan, Daniel F., 2016. "Periscoping economics through someone else’s eyes: A real world (Twitter) app," International Review of Economics Education, Elsevier, vol. 23(C), pages 34-39.
    8. Hall, Joshua C. & Podemska-Mikluch, Marta, 2015. "Teaching the economic way of thinking through Op-eds," International Review of Economics Education, Elsevier, vol. 19(C), pages 13-21.
    9. Wolfe, Marketa Halova, 2020. "Integrating data analysis into an introductory macroeconomics course," International Review of Economics Education, Elsevier, vol. 33(C).
    10. Abdullah Al‐Bahrani & Darshak Patel, 2015. "Using ESPN 30 for 30 to teach economics," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 81(3), pages 829-842, January.
    11. Ray, Mona, 2018. "Teaching economics using ‘Cases’ – Going beyond the ‘Chalk-And-Talk’ method," International Review of Economics Education, Elsevier, vol. 27(C), pages 1-9.
    12. Ninos P. Malek & Joshua C. Hall & Collin Hodges, 2014. "A Review and Analysis of the Effectiveness of Alternative Teaching Methods on Student Learning in Economics," Working Papers 14-27, Department of Economics, West Virginia University.
    13. Iris Franz, 2020. "Teaching Economics With Analogies - Practical Examples," Journal of Economics Teaching, Journal of Economics Teaching, vol. 5(1), pages 17-29, May.
    14. Matthew C. Rousu & Courtney A. Conrad, 2017. "Economic Lessons from the Musical Hamilton," Journal of Economics Teaching, Journal of Economics Teaching, vol. 2(1), pages 30-50, June.
    15. Boulatoff, Catherine & Cyrus, Teresa L., 2022. "Improving student outcomes in large introductory courses," International Review of Economics Education, Elsevier, vol. 41(C).
    16. Renato Matos Lopes & Daniel José Garcia dos Santos de Faria & Antonio Augusto Fidalgo-Neto & Fabio Batista Mota, 2017. "Facebook in educational research: a bibliometric analysis," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 111(3), pages 1591-1621, June.
    17. Aaron Pacitti & Michael Cauvel, 2023. "Rent-Seeking Behavior and Economic Justice: A Classroom Exercise," Eastern Economic Journal, Palgrave Macmillan;Eastern Economic Association, vol. 49(1), pages 88-103, January.
    18. Timothy E. Burson & Bradley W. Brooks & Steven Cox, 2012. "An Assessment of the Perceived Learning by Millennials during One-Day One-Topic Marketing Simulations," Discussion Paper Series 2012-01, McColl School of Business, Queens University of Charlotte.
    19. Matthew C. Rousu, 2018. "Using Show Tunes to Teach about Free (and Not-So-Free) Markets," Journal of Private Enterprise, The Association of Private Enterprise Education, vol. 33(Winter 20), pages 111-128.
    20. Joshua C. Hall & Kaitlyn R. Harger, 2014. "Teaching Students to "Do" Public Choice in an Undergraduate Public Sector Course," Working Papers 14-16, Department of Economics, West Virginia University.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    twitter; upper division; social media;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • A21 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics - - - Pre-college
    • A22 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics - - - Undergraduate

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:jtc:journl:v:4:y:2019:i:1:p:15-26. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Ben Smith (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.journalofeconomicsteaching.org/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.