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Sunday, January 16, 2011, 11:08 AM

it's time for CONSUMER EDUCATION!

New semester started this Monday and only TWO more modules to clear before practicum!
One of the modules is Communication skills and the other one is teaching of consumer education.
Consumer education is like another important aspects of home economics as it makes up approximately 40% - 50% of the Sec 1 / Sec 2 home economics syllabus.. In addition, when we start out practicum, there is a high possibility that we might be teaching consumer education topics!

Apart from the topics:

Advertisement, Making informed choices, Shopping smart, Cents and sensibility, Methods of payment, Buyers beware, and Consumer redress that are covered in the sec 1 and 2 textbooks.

There are actually more to consumer education (since I'll probably define consumer education as any issue that involves consumers can be part of consumer education). Some examples are product recall and entrepreneurship..

So, the first assignment for this module is a 90-minutes lesson plan and I'm assigned ENTREPRENEURSHIP to work on.

Some background information:
Entrepreneurship is introduced in school as it promotes creativity, innovation, team work and encourage students to consider various perspectives before they come up with a proposal.

While we try to encourage students to be innovative, they should be mindful of the feasibility, user-friendliness and quality of their design as well. They also need to consider what appeals to their target market.

An example of creative product that targets students/teenagers..

Thumbdrives with unique designs..

By adding unique designs, teenagers will tend to prefer these to the usual design of thumbdrives available in the market (if we are taking teenagers as the targeted market)..

Some are really cool, interesting, and cute..

But others are rather weird to me..

images from: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/50-weirdest-usb-flash-drives-ever/

Labels: DCX 133 Teaching of Consumer Education