Archive for the ‘communications’ tag
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Insurance and Floods | Financial Literacy: TEACH IT!
Second- and third-grade students learn the value of insurance when a flood inundates their homes. Luckily these homes are made of milk cartons and the flood was caused by the teacher. Marni Pingel integrates this lesson on risk management into a social studies unit on homes, and includes a language arts component as student journalists write about the flood. Standard G, grades PK-4 More info at www.ecb.org
Sneeze Insurance | Financial Literacy: TEACH IT!
Julie Woletz teaches her Personal Finance students some of the concepts of risk management by selling them sneeze insurance policies. Students learn about premiums, deductibles, risk factors, and insurance fraud in the context of the sneeze policy, then connect their findings to real life. Standard G, grades 9-12 More info at www.ecb.org
Eli Noam Ph.D – (part 1 – 50 mins.) Air date: 11-18-96
400 articles in economics, legal, communications, and other journals that Professor Noam has written on subjects such as communications, information, public choice, public finance, and general regulation, he has also authored, edited, and co-edited about 25 books. For a complete list of articles and publications by Eli Noam, please visit his complete curriculum vitae. • Present Positions: Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School; 1976-present Director, Columbia …
Mobile phones and banks, banking transactions future trends
www.globalchange.com Banks will become phone companies and telecom companies will become banks. Mobile payment systems, micropayments, mobile phone credit card transactions and loans. Economic impact of remittances from foreign workers using SMS credit to avoid foreign exchange transaction costs. How biometrics fingerprint technology will allow large mobile phone payments. Commissions and interest charges on loans. Impact of revenues from American Express, Visa, Delta, Access, Mastercard …
