{"id":3951,"date":"2022-04-22T14:06:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T13:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/?p=3951"},"modified":"2022-04-22T14:06:41","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T13:06:41","slug":"memes-contest-engaging-students-through-innovative-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2022\/04\/22\/memes-contest-engaging-students-through-innovative-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Memes Contest: Engaging Students through Innovative Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Rowan Cherodian teaches Introduction to Time-Series Econometrics to Stage Two Economics students. Recently, he held a meme contest, where the students with the top three memes got free drinks at K-Bar.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It can be difficult to engage students in a module that is particularly challenging. For years, Econometrics has had a love-hate relationship with Economics students\u2013\u2013everyone loves being able to learn key skills and knowledge that play a huge role in today\u2019s job market, and the content can be really interesting, but it\u2019s definitely not easy. PhD candidate and GTA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/people\/2988\/cherodian-rowan\">Rowan Cherodian<\/a>, the module convener of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/courses\/modules\/module\/ECON5810\">\u00a0Introduction to Time-Series Econometrics<\/a>, wanted to break some of the tension that comes with the challenge, and encourage students to find the module more fun.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3970\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3970\" style=\"width: 747px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/files\/2022\/04\/Benny_liu.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3970\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/files\/2022\/04\/Benny_liu.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"747\" height=\"539\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3970\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Winning meme courtesy of Benny Liu.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe aim of the meme contest was to encourage student engagement and lighten the mood,\u201d said Cherodian. \u201cThe course covers some very technical material that I know many students struggle with, so I added the meme contest to make learning and engaging with the material and course more fun.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3972\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3972\" style=\"width: 749px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/files\/2022\/04\/Shivali_raichura.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3972\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/files\/2022\/04\/Shivali_raichura.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"749\" height=\"684\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3972\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meme courtesy of Shivali Raichura.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The three winners of the challenge were Benny Liu, Shivali Raichura and John McLarty and were treated to drinks at K-bar.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3971\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3971\" style=\"width: 852px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/files\/2022\/04\/John_Mclarty.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3971\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/files\/2022\/04\/John_Mclarty.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"852\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meme created by John McLarty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rowan Cherodian teaches Introduction to Time-Series Econometrics to Stage Two Economics students. Recently, he held a meme contest, where the students with the top three &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2022\/04\/22\/memes-contest-engaging-students-through-innovative-teaching\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78010,"featured_media":3979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78010"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3951"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3992,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3951\/revisions\/3992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}