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When

Friday October 18, 2013 from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM MST
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Where

SRP - Tempe
1521 North Project Drive
Tempe, AZ 85251  

 
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Contact

Elena Zee
Arizona Council on Economic Education
480-368-8020
programs@azecon.org

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Popular Culture and Economics:
Making Economics Relevant and Entertaining

Join us for a special event, featuring guest speakers Professor Dirk Mateer and Assistant Professor Charity-Joy Acchiardo.  

 

Award-winning instructor Dirk Mateer's use of pop culture is part of his signature teaching style; collecting resources to keep large classes of students engaged, helping effectively teach economics, and having fun in the process.

 

This event features media highlights from popular culture to make the experience for economics teachers more dynamic.  Using clips from popular music such as The Beatles, TV shows such as The Office and The Cosby Show, and movies like Confessions of a Shopaholic and Moneyball, Professor Mateer makes economics relevant and entertaining. 

 

Appetizers and beverages will be provided. Click to register below - and don't forget to bring a guest!

 

Certificate for 3 hours of Professional Development will be given to all participants.  Registration fee is $20.00.

 

Dirk Mateer

 
Dirk Mateer is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Kentucky. His research has appeared in the Journal of Economic Education and others, focusing on media-enriched learning.

 

 

 Professor Mateer's achievements are as follows:

 

Charity-Joy Acchiardo is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Transylvania University in Lexington, KY. 
She was previously the Oloffson Weaver Fellow and a Mercatus Center PhD fellow in Economics, holding an MBA from the Monterey Institute of International Studies, a graduate school of Middlebury College. 
Her lectures include her experience an Arabic linguist in the U.S. Army, teaching and traveling in Europe, and cultivating nonprofit development. She's taught middle and high school students in special education and advanced placement programs, soldiers in field training exercises, and employees in a variety of organizations in hands-on technology courses.