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Engaging Gen Z: Economic Lessons with MrBeast

January 8, 2024

Jimmy Donaldson, known more popularly online as MrBeast, is one of the world’s most popular YouTube content creators, with more than 210 million subscribers and 36 billion views. His viral videos are known for expensive challenges and are incredibly popular among Gen Z students. In this interactive workshop, you will learn how to incorporate lesson plans based on three different MrBeast videos that include episode summaries, economics concepts, and multiple assessment questions into your classroom. Five Econiful members (classroom teachers) will win a Feastables MrBeast chocolate prize.

 

Instructor:
Wayne Geerling is a Professor of Instruction at the University of Texas (Austin). He has taught more than 40,000 undergraduate students in his career, specializing in large undergraduate courses of up to 1,000 students. Wayne’s contribution to innovation and teaching excellence has been recognised with several teaching awards at the Department, Faculty, University and National levels, in Australia and America.

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