Anjaly suggested: "One of the big advantages of the Biz/ed 'In the News' archive is that it is written for students and so uses appropriate terminology."
Anjaly's suggestion from Module 4 "The blog from tutor2u is an excellent resource to get your students into the habit of reading news articles. Although they cannot use these articles for their commentaries, signing up for the digest, which is delivered three or four times a week, and reading the articles, helps them understand what makes a good article, as well as keeping them informed about weekly events. What is more you can normally find the original source of these articles, which students can use as extracts if they are not too long."
Considering alternative measures of growth/ development
Anjaly suggested this TED talk: Nic Marks THE HAPPY PLANET INDEX
It would be a very appealing conversation starter for our students.
Canadian CBC Radio program called Ideas Mar 13, 2013
54 minute talk on called "The End of Growth". The podcast is available - not sure if you have to be in Canada to access - sorry:
http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/podcasts/ideas_20130313_98658.mp3
For our visual learners - there are a number of interesting ways to present Economic topics. How about the RSA Animate group - they have taken a talk on Superfreakonomics and animated it. Rather fun AND funny.