The Econ Kid: How Jude Wallis created EconLearn.org, an advanced teaching platform attracting attention nationwide.
As Mira Costa High School teacher Adam Geczi teaches AP Economics this fall, he’ll be using some advanced technology that feels long overdue. Graphs are a foundational part of economics, from a simple supply and demand curve finding its equilibrium price to the more complex cost analysis that shows how a monopoly can slip from robust profits into catastrophic losses. As economists will tell you, every question worth investigating through a graph is a question about change. Yet economics is mostly taught using static graphs, despite the fact that the reality those graphs are depicting is anything but static. This is a problem, because a printed graph doesn’t show flux. And so the solution is dynamic graphs that are more capable of showing how the actual practice of economics takes place — a graph where a user can change any point on it and the other correlates will reflect that change. What that solution looks like in a classroom is a newly developed online tool called EconLearn.org, which offers 24 lesson modules covering every unit of the College Board’s AP Microeconomics and AP Macroeconomics curriculum, 566 practice questions, 144 flashcards, a 624-term glossary, and…
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