Teachers and students

EduEco in the classroom

Each episode lasts 10 to 15 minutes and can be projected in class; each experiment in the laboratory takes one to four minutes and is done alone, on a phone or a computer. Nothing to install, no account, no personal data requested.

Four ways to use it

Open a lesson
Start with an experiment: students live the phenomenon (an illusion, a bias, a paradox) before they look for the explanation. A question without an answer makes people want to learn.
Spark a debate
The bets in the episodes split the class. Have students vote, then reveal the answer: a mistake made with confidence, then corrected, is the one best remembered.
Prepare
Every episode has a full transcript, below the stage, with its sources: you can read everything before class.
Follow up
The experiments in the laboratory can be shared with a simple link: to redo at home, to compare between students, to discuss out loud.

In the curriculum

Subject	Topic	Episodes	Short experiments
PsychologyHigh school (AP, IB) and college	Sensation and perception	The Hole in Your Eye (13 min) Red Does Not Exist (12 min)	The blind spot test The disappearing dots The phantom flag The gray strawberries
PsychologyHigh school (AP, IB) and college	Memory and attention	Memory, the Storyteller (14 min)	The false memory test The accident witness The memory palace Count the bounces
PsychologyHigh school (AP, IB) and college	Thinking, biases and decision-making	Who Decides? (13 min)	The wheel that steers your guesses Would you defend an opinion that isn’t yours? The Stroop test
PsychologyHigh school (AP, IB) and college	Social psychology: conformity and obedience	The Sixth Subject (13 min)	The Asch experiment Find the man who refused
PhilosophyHigh school and college	Consciousness and the mind	Who Is There? (12 min)	The disappearing dots Count the bounces
PhilosophyHigh school and college	Time	Elastic Time (13 min)	Count ten seconds The stopped clock The twin paradox The cosmic calendar
Theory of KnowledgeIB Diploma	Truth, memory and reason as ways of knowing	Memory, the Storyteller (14 min) Who Decides? (13 min)	The false memory test The accident witness The wheel that steers your guesses Would you defend an opinion that isn’t yours?
Philosophy and artHigh school and college	Aesthetics: what art does to us	The Chills (12 min) Twenty-Four Lies a Second (15 min) Red Does Not Exist (12 min)	The Kuleshov effect The gray strawberries Your favorite rectangle
Language and linguisticsHigh school and college	Language and thought	Words That Make You See (12 min)	Bouba or kiki? The Stroop test
PhysicsHigh school	Sound waves, music and hearing	The Chills (12 min) Four Chords and a Loop (14 min)	Why does music sound sad? The four chords of pop The scale that rises forever The sound of two black holes merging
PhysicsHigh school (AP Physics 2, IB) and college	Interference and the nature of light	Light That Hesitates (11 min)	Young’s slits, one photon at a time
MathematicsHigh school (AP Statistics, IB)	Conditional probability	Who Decides? (13 min)	The Monty Hall problem
MathematicsHigh school and college	Infinity, sets and counting	The Infinite Hotel (12 min)	Hilbert’s hotel Cantor’s diagonal
EconomicsHigh school (AP, IB) and college	Money, trust and game theory	The Stone at the Bottom of the Sea (12 min) The Christmas Truce (13 min)	The prisoner’s dilemma The ultimatum game Axelrod’s tournament
Film studiesHigh school and college	Editing, point of view and film music	Twenty-Four Lies a Second (15 min)	The Kuleshov effect Surprise or suspense: Hitchcock’s bomb The Vertigo effect One film, three scores How many frames does it take to see motion?
Media literacyMiddle and high school	Cognitive biases, attention and the attention economy	Who Decides? (13 min) The Pigeon and the Screen (12 min)	The wheel that steers your guesses Would you defend an opinion that isn’t yours? Count the bounces

Four ways to use it

Open a lesson

Spark a debate

Prepare

Follow up

In the curriculum