Question: What percent of teens don’t know the difference between a debit card and a credit card?
Answer: 32%
Questions:
What is one major difference between a debit card and a credit card?
What is one potential consequence of not knowing the difference between these two cards?
Which card do you use more frequently? Why?
Click here for the ready-to-go slides for this Question of the Day that you can use in your classroom.
Behind the numbers (ChooseFI):
Imagine not realizing that a debit card immediately deducts money from your account. Picture what happens if you...
EdPuzzle Thursday - TYPES OF CREDIT: Comparing Cards
Want to assign videos with built-in questions? We will be releasing a new EdPuzzle video here on the blog each week so that your students can answer questions that are directly embedded within engaging videos. We are excited to share with you a new video each week and a new topic each month!
In this week's EdPuzzle video, your students will learn the difference between a credit card, debit card, and prepaid debit card.
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QoD: Rank order these payment types from most to least used by adults: Cash, Credit Card, Debit Card
By Tim Ranzetta
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Sep 29, 2019
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Question of the Day, Payment Types, Debit Cards, Credit Cards, Research
Thanks to Julius Prezelski for pitching this idea and pointing out a new research study from the Federal Reserve.
Answer:
Debit cards 28%
Cash 26%
Credit cards 23%
Questions:
Does this match your experience?
What purchases are you most likely to use cash? use debit cards?
Do you think these answers vary based on your age? If you polled your classmates, what do you think the answer would be?
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Oops! How Does One Undo Payment Mistakes?
I speak to users of payment apps about their experience, and they assure me they are very careful and are confident they are always paying the right person the correct amount. While I don’t use Venmo myself (yet), I have watched the demos and watched my kids use it. I like the functionality, and I understand that 99.9% of the time, you are paying funds to or requesting funds from one of your contacts, which explains users’ confidence. (For the life of me I don’t understand why...
Read the Fine Print: Overdraft Protection
What do financial institutions like to hide in the fine print? If they keep "hiding the ball" there we better teach our students to "read the fine print!"
Here are a few leading banks and the "footnotes" (small print and bottom of page) that you can find on their Overdraft Protection pages:
Bank #1 [click to go to source]:
Bank #2 [click to go to source]
Questions:
Click on one of the bank links above and analyze the overdraft services provided by the bank. Identify pros/cons of each of...
FinCap Friday: Tappity-Tap!
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Nov 29, 2018
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FinCap Friday, Current Events, Credit Cards, Payment Types, Debit Cards
For the EdPuzzle version of this activity, click here.
More and more people opt into using mobile payments because of the speed and ease of transacting, but now Chase and VISA are jumping on the opportunity to offer a faster and easier way to make payments! In this week's segment, we take a closer look at contactless payments, also known as "tap to pay." Click the image below for the slides.
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Chart of the Week: Digital Wallets
By Tim Ranzetta
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Nov 28, 2018
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Chart of the Week, Payment Types, Current Events, Debit Cards, Credit Cards
This chart comes courtesy of Wall Street Journal (sub. required):
Questions:
In your own words, what's a digital wallet? Here's a description from Investopedia.
Which companies listed in the chart are you familiar with? Would you trust them to store your debit/credit card information?
Digital wallets now comprise about 1% of U.S. card transactions. What do you think that percentage will be in five years?
What do you think is the appeal of a digital wallet to consumers? to...
Question of the Day: How many payment transactions does a consumer make in a typical month?
By Tim Ranzetta
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Nov 26, 2018
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Payment Types, Question of the Day, Credit Cards, Debit Cards, Checking Accounts
Answer: 70
Questions:
How many payment transactions do you make in a typical month?
What are the various ways that you pay for things? List them from most to least popular.
How do you keep track of your payment transactions?
How do you think the way you pay for things might change as you get older?
Click here for the ready-to-go slides for this Question of the Day that you can use in your classroom.
Behind the numbers (from CBInsights):...
Schools in the News: Custom High School Debit Cards, Reality Fairs and Live Personal Finance Shows
Credit union issues school debit cards (Albany Democrat-Herald)
“Central Willamette Credit Union… has issued special debit cards for West Albany, South Albany and Lebanon high schools, each bearing their name and logo. Anytime someone swipes the debit card, the credit union makes a 3-cent donation back to the specific school…. The company has long awarded mini-grants to teachers for classroom projects. Central Willamette employees also spend hundreds of hours...
Question of the Day: Where do consumers use their debit cards most? a) Fast-food dining b) Gas station c) Supermarket
Answer: Supermarket, with almost 50% of consumers choosing to use their debit card.
From Visual Capitalist:
Questions:
Why do you think people choose debit over credit when it comes to shopping at supermarkets?
How do you decide whether to use cash or your debit card when buying something?
Why do you think credit cards are most popular at department stores?
Click here for the ready-to-go slides for this Question of the Day that you can...
What's New With......Checking?
Cash or No Cash?
Have you noticed your favorite businesses going cashless? How much cash do you carry? Read how David Gelles of the New York Times decided to give the cashless lifestyle a try.
If we are moving to go cashless, then this news about cardless ATMs may have a limited lifespan.
Checking Account Fees and Features
You are not imagining it: checking account fees are on the rise.
You may have to search harder, but free checking accounts still exist.
As fintech evolves...
What I'm Reading This Weekend (2/17-2/18)
What happens when tight labor markets meet tax cuts meets increased government spending? The I-word returns as a key concern of central bankers. After a decade of slumbering 1-2% annual inflation figures, expectations reset for what's ahead as well (which might explain the recent stock market drop):
January CPI data was released Friday. Consumer prices rose more than anticipated in January.
The NYT has an informative article on How Inflation Works.
USA Today tries to help us...
Question of the Day: Is there a fee if you don't have enough money in your bank account to cover a debit card transaction?
By Tim Ranzetta
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Jan 08, 2018
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Checking Accounts, Current Events, Research, Question of the Day, Debit Cards
Answer: It depends.
If you have overdraft protection on your account, the average fee is $35
If you do not have overdraft protection, there is no fee but you will not be able to complete the transaction.
Questions:
Do you have/would you choose to have overdraft protection for your bank account? Explain.
What are strategies that you can utilize to avoid spending more than you have in your bank account?
Would you be ok if your debit card transaction was turned down at a store? ...
Credit Card, Debit Card or Checks: What Is Most Prevalent Form of Payment By Americans?
By Tim Ranzetta
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Jan 02, 2018
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Credit Cards, Current Events, Question of the Day, Debit Cards, Checking Accounts
Answer (from Federal Reserve 2017 Payments Study): Debit cards
Number of transactions in 2016:
Debit cards: 73.8 billion
Credit cards: 37.3 billion
Checks: 17.2 billion
Interestingly the fastest growing area in terms of transactions was with credit cards:
Credit card payments registered the highest growth rate by number (10.2 percent) among the core payment types from 2015 to 2016, up from a growth rate of 8.1 percent from 2012 to 2015. Debit card payments registered the second highest...
Digging Deeper: Is Gen Z Doomed to Fail at Budgeting?
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Dec 18, 2017
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Budgeting, Debit Cards, Credit Cards, Purchase Decisions, Tips for Teachers, Article, Current Events
The students in our classrooms today can make it through life without ever touching cash. Heck, they don’t even have to take a debit or credit card out of their pockets….a few taps on the phone that is always in their hand and they can pay for things using ApplePay or the Android equivalent, or pay back their friends using an PayPal or Venmo. A student of mine from China said this is how his generation pays for everything back home. Bottom line: it is just...
