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The Podcast Series
Talking Financial Literacy
Talking Financial Literacy Podcast and its companion resource site is a resource for educators. If you are seeking to gain information, resources and insights about incorporating teaching and learning about personal finance into a variety of content studies, this is the place to check for current, interesting and top-notch assistance.
Building on the power of new media, whether you are reading the web, checking the web links or listening to the podcast, you will find an abundance of help in this growing community of educators interested in the same pursuit.
Your Talking Financial Literacy Podcast hosts and producers are Mark Gura and Dr. Kathleen P. King.
The series provides content in the following areas which are traditionally associated with personal finance and economics instruction and for which, traditionally, material for use in schools has been produced:
- Life Skills (career skills, etc.)
- Social Studies (economics)
- Mathematics
Furthermore, a significant portion of the podcast series is devoted to interviews of expert and highly knowledgeable professionals in these and other areas of education that may address instruction in Financial Literacy.
In addition to covering traditional dimensions, the series will ask the questions:
- What is “Financial Literacy?” Is the answer to this question something of a moving target?
- Why MUST ‘Financial Literacy’ literacy as mission critical education be re-defined and re-established for young people NOW?
- How has the world, and peoples’ relationship to economics and financial literacy evolved to make this so important?
One way of addressing the above will be to present relevant headlines and news articles.
The series also examines areas of advanced and exemplary activity in Financial Literacy Education, i.e. states that have developed standards specific to it and that have provided content and other resources to with which to implement them.
Discussion Threads
During the course of the 24 episodes a wide variety of topics will be explored, each giving insight into the place, importance, and methods for a facet of Financial Literacy Education. These will include:
- Banking
- Saving
- Budgeting
- CREDIT
- Loans (including student loans)
- Taxes
- Investing
- Entrepreneurship
- What does Joe Citizen need to know about global economics?
Please contact us with your ideas,
Your Talking Fin Lit Cohosts
podcast@talkingfinlit.org
Talking Fin Lit Podcast is produced by
Fordham University’s MS in Adult Education and HRD program.Talking Fin Lit Podcast is graciously funded by a grant from The McGraw-Hill Companies.
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